Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins have reached to Him. He's my Savior, my Redeemer. How he loves me, how I love him. He is risen, he is coming. Lord come quickly. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia I will praise Him, I will praise Him, I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. I will praise Him. We have in Jesus all our sins and griefs to bear. What a brave love is to Mary, ♪ Everything to call in prayer ♪ ♪ He's my Savior, my Redeemer ♪ ♪ How He loves me ♪ He is risen! He is coming! Lord, come quickly! Alleluia! Good morning. Welcome to the Pentwater Bible Church. I'm glad you could join us this morning as we start Daylight Savings Time ending. I really wish it would end completely. I just don't see the reason for it, and I've heard so many different ideas about, well, we have to do it because I don't say it, it's just confusion. When it starts in the spring and then when it ends now, it just messes up our timetable. But that's the way it is. And we pray for the hostilities to end in the Ukraine, as chaotic as that seems. Because so many of those people that we know of have fled into Poland where their sanction has been given to them, some safety and the churches and the rescue organizations and that, way over a million people. They don't like the kind of choice that they have. They don't want to abstain from the activities or protect themselves during those activities that will produce children. And their means of eliminating what they consider to be an obstacle to their freedom is murder their babies. You know, we can say this, they don't care and unless they have a real experience with God, a born-again experience, they're not going to change. They don't care. You know, I mentioned in our last session that I was standing at the counter of a resale store in Bear Lake last week and these two guys walked in and they were loudly proclaiming Harrison Waltz to the proprietor was standing in front of me behind the counter and I looked over at these guys and I said, oh you're promoting the baby murderers, right? And he agreed very gleefully, yes absolutely. That's how far gone they are. They don't realize that they're killing a human being, murdering a human being. So keep those prayers going, please. At least for now, we can get the right people in office that won't permit that and will work to stop it. That's what they're so afraid of with Trump getting re-elected that he will impair their abilities. Well you can't say this, you can't say that, you can't. What do you mean you can't? Sure you can. What are you afraid of? Somebody calling you out for telling the truth? Is that what you're afraid of? So we pray for our missionary Todd Baker as he's over there and I've been sending out the daily reports to you. He really thought this was going to be a real fertile time to be there because of the war that's going on. And people would listen to him. You know, I can't imagine what it would be like to have rockets coming into this country, this state, for example, from three different sides. And they have killed people with these rockets in Israel. They haven't all been taken out by the Iron Dome, excuse me, or Hezbollah, or like these ones last night, some of them that weren't taken out by the Iron Dome fell into some non-populated areas. No, my Hebrew teacher tells me. In your word this morning, to Pastor Dan's message, we just pray, Lord, that you'll open our eyes and our ears to what you have for us to learn. Guide us going forward, Lord. I ask all this in Jesus' name, amen. Thank you. Shall we sing our first tune? I know the Lord will find a way for me, or make a way. I know the Lord will make a way for me. I know the Lord will make a way for me. If I walk in heaven's light, shun the wrong and do the right, I know the Lord will make a way for me. The Lord has said, go tell the word to all. I know the Lord will make a way for me. Won't it be grand to hear him say, well done? Won't it be grand to hear him say, well done? If I walk in heaven's light, shall the wrong ever do the right? The Lord Jesus gathered his apostles in that upper room in Jerusalem the night before he was sacrificed to impress upon them their role in the development of the church, the jump-starting of the church. You know, the term the church has so many meanings, but the original meaning that Jesus gave this world, the church, means everybody that has been spiritually transformed or born again, if you will. That's the church. The church, universal as we call it, and then some even call it Catholic, which they became, and how powerful, even to many of the kings, they were. So it, you know, what they did, what that new church became is not what Jesus intended. And he gave those marching orders to those apostles that night. You go out, you are the servant of all, and you tell everybody this gospel. Well, they did. They went out. Every one of them was martyred for doing so. which really set the stage for that first 300 years of the church being rejected to happen. And he gave that future from him to the Apostle John about the revelation that we will conclude today and how that tells this world how this is going to end and how he's going to set up the eternal order. We've seen all of these things in the 59 times we've been in this book. Today we'll conclude it. And it's just fascinating to see what he has done, and it's all for us. He's done this for us, nobody else. Those that believe on him and trust him, it's who he died for. He died for everybody, but only certain people are actually going to accept it and take the gift. So then he raised a glass of wine in front of those 12 men and he said, this is my blood which is shed for you. Do this in remembrance of me. we who are most blessed are able to do these things and understand them. Amen. We'll be singing our next tune, Jesus Loves Me. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. are weak, but he is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. Jesus loves me, he who died, heaven's gate to open wide. He will wash away my sin, let his little child come in. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so. Jesus loves me, loves me still, though I'm very weak and ill. From his shining throne on high, comes to watch me where I lie. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. Jesus loves the children dear, children far away or near. They are safe within his care, every day and everywhere. Yes, Jesus loves them. Yes, Jesus loves thee, the Bible tells me so. Jesus, take this heart of mine, make it pure and holy thine. Thou hast bled and died for me. I will henceforth live for thee. Yes, Jesus loves thee. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. Amen. So they gave us an extra verse that we didn't have written down. I got to talk to the choir about these things. You know, they're frequently doing this on me. Shall we pray? Father, we love you and we are so thankful, Lord, you've given us the whole counsel of your plan, the whole counsel of God, as your apostle and our apostle Paul told us. Thank you, Father. As we conclude this book, the revelation of Jesus Christ, we pray, Lord, that you would teach us, be with us, have your Holy Spirit impact us with the understanding of what it is that you have said. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray these things, amen. As we conclude with just the last few verses of chapter 22 of this book of Revelation, because it's a conclusion, It's more of a conclusion of the entire Bible, not just the book of Revelation. And as such I'm going to go over and outline form every major event in the Bible this morning. They're all in your notes and there's not a lot of text. You can look things up on your own, but I think it's important to see God's whole counsel, everything that he said that he has done, culminating with what we saw in our last session, which is the eternal order that he's working towards. You know many have said Well, if God was really gonna, if he's all good and loving and all that stuff, he'd have never allowed all these things to happen. Problem is they don't understand God's plan. They don't understand that he is doing things. You know, I heard a, I remember when we were in seminary a while back. Boy, that's a long time ago now. The concept of God living outside of time and us being in time is too hard for us to understand. We just can't understand no time. Well that's where God lives and when he says things in his mind and in no time and space they're happening right then. And in time and space things go chronologically one event after another, but he has already concluded everything. And it's really interesting, and I know I brought this out before, in the Hebrew biblical language there are only two tenses and the two tenses like they don't have past, present, future, future, perfect, and so on like we do in English, the Germanic languages, and the Romance languages, and so on. We don't have that. We just have in biblical Hebrew something that's done or something that hasn't been done yet. It's either concluded or it's not concluded. Every prophecy in the Bible is written in that perfect, completed tense. In other words, in God's mind these things have already happened. I remember I did go over the book of Revelation in the last fellowship we were 16 some years ago. One of the ladies in the class said, oh this is terrible, we got to stop this, we can't let this happen. and I said that would be nice but this is not written for us to try and stop. God has already proclaimed it as will be happening. We have to be aware of it and make others aware of it to see who we can share the gospel with. And she said, you mean you can't stop this? No, God has said it's going to happen. That's what we have to really understand, the power that God has and the fact that as the creator he's describing the whole situation. So I'm going to start with prehistory. What happened in eternity past And a lot of things were given to us, but in terms of the outline of events that are big is the fall of the anointed cherub, Hallel, that the Latin translation called Lucifer, and he became Satan. Now he's called a number of other things, the day star, and sun of the morning, and so on. He was the highest of the highest order of the celestial beings. He was the highest of the highest of the cherubim, and sin was found in him. He was, he had the highest job. He was covering the throne of God and sin was found in him. Now that's the best that we can get out of the text in Ezekiel. Isaiah also tells us that in chapter 14, how art thou fallen from heaven O day star son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the ground that didst lay low the nations, and thou settest in thy heart I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation in the uttermost parts of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the cloud. I will make myself like the Most High. So he wanted God's job and he would be thrown out of heaven. And at the point of his fall he became Satan, which is the Hebrew word for adversary. Hasatan is the adversary and that's him. The next spot we see him is right after the creation and our first parents were made in the book of Genesis. Now Genesis and Revelation are what we call the bookends of the Bible. The whole story is between the bookends. And in early Genesis we see the creation, Then we see man being tempted by this Satan and falling into disrespute, wrecking the creation when sin came in. We can't imagine the level of decay that came in with what those in engineering and physics call entropy. It's a second law of thermodynamics that discusses the nature of decay, that everything that is made will go from order to chaos. Builders understand that, engineering people understand it, because you have to take this entropy into account when you're building something, because you've got to make it better So the decay doesn't take it down sooner than it will. If an engineer is designing a machine, all of those factors go into this to make sure it's going to run. Because the world's going to try and take it down from entropy, you know, decay and so on. The satanic group of angelic demons came into this world in early Genesis and then we see them in Revelation also being used by God to wreck this earth and the people in it. but we see them making their first appearance after Satan in Genesis chapter 6. Demons there intermarry. They come into the world in human form and we've seen this. They visited Abraham. We see this. They came in at other points. We see this in Hebrews to be warned of people that could be angels. because they are going to come into this world periodically in human form. Well they intermarried with women and what they were trying to do was stop the Messiah from coming. Because at the point that Adam and Eve sinned, God made a declaration that he was going to bring his Messiah in. And so Satan is trying to corrupt us The flood stopped it for the time being, and this flood was a worldwide flood. It wasn't regional as some people want to proclaim. It wasn't limited. It covered the entire world as the text says. Then after the flood, sin was still here. And the population expanded after the flood, and this person called Nimrod, who was stated to be against God, built a tower, gave us the occult at a place in southeastern Iraq that today is called Babylon, and it was called Babel back then in Hebrew. And in order for God to stop this again, he corrupted the original language so people could not understand each other. And they broke away from that central location where they should not have been gathering or collecting because God wanted people after the flood to go out and repopulate the world. They didn't do that. They violated God. Nimrod became their leader. It was a terrible death spot. So God confounds the language. Now I have a strong belief that Hebrew was the original language. I have very compelling evidence. I don't have conclusive evidence. Archaeologically, as far back as we can get is about 1400 BC, because we have found writing that Joshua, Moses' successor, wrote in a place where they had worshipped in one of the tabernacle spots. We have found that. And, I mean, I'll let it go there, but some of my theological teachers and those that I have trusted also agree with us. We don't have archaeological evidence back farther than that, but I'm sure we'll find it at some point in time. technically it makes some very very strong declarations in the Hebrew grammar about it only being for the Israelites and only being at the time of the creation. Abraham, if you will, was the first Hebrew declared in the Bible. So here's what God says about this. Come, let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel, because Jehovah did there confound the language of the earth, and from thence did Jehovah scatter them aboard on the face of all the earth. So he, the triune God, let us, is making this change to implement confusion so that the different languages wouldn't understand each other. I don't know how many of you have ever studied a foreign language. It's not easy. It's not easy. I studied German for the longest time and it's very close to English. A lot of the words are very, very similar. It's not one of the Romance languages and as you know I've studied Hebrew and Greek. None of these languages are as easy as learning English. If you learn to speak one of these other languages as a little boy or girl, that's different because you're with your parents or your guardians and they're speaking and giving you some gestures and so on and you pick it up. But as an adult or late teen even to try and pick up one of these languages, it's a lot of work. You know, you have to learn grammar first and then through the grammar you begin to understand the structure of language. It is indeed a confusion. And that's exactly what God wanted because people would not scatter after the flood around the earth to repopulate. And they made this guy Nimrod out to be something really important when he was an occultic leader. So the next thing on the chronology through the Bible is the call of this man Abraham. Joshua says he was an idol-worshiping Gentile. God calls him out of Mesopotamia to Israel, which was Canaan at the time, and he responds. He did so by faith. He was given a covenant that is foundational to the covenants after him. He was told that he and his wife would have a very special son that would carry on the covenant, and that son was called Isaac. His wife, Sarah, did not believe that God was going to do this because she waited many, many years and had not gotten pregnant. So she tells Abraham, why don't you go into my handmaid here, Hagar, and produce a child. That must be what God wants because that seems to be how we're going to get this child. Well, Abraham did that. was outside of God's will, and she has a child, Hagar Des, named Ishmael. Ishmael becomes a very, very difficult person, and the true son of promise is Isaac. Sarah finally has this child when she's 90 years old, and Abraham's a hundred. Isaac is the child of promise and it's interesting the Hebrew discussion of this outside the Bible tells the story of Sarah having this child at 90 and none of the other people were going to believe her. Abraham says, look this is what you have to do. You have to bear your breasts while you're nursing him in front of these other ladies so they can actually see that God did this. Because a 90-year-old in normal times and circumstances would never be able to do any of these things. And that provided the conclusive proof that the Israelites look at Now Isaac had twin sons. One of them was Jacob and his name was changed to Israel. The other was Edom and Jacob has 12 sons through four different women and they traveled down to Egypt because there was a famine in the land in Israel. and they or their progeny was there for 400 years as the Abrahamic Covenant stated very clearly. 400 years of good times and then a lot of bad times after that. So Moses who grew up as a Jew in the court of Pharaoh leads the Jewish people out of as the Hebrews call it, Egypt, into the promised land. He gets the land promise, he receives the Mosaic Covenant on Mount Sinai, which we call the law, but he is excluded from going into the promised land. He dies at Kadesh Barnea, which is on the southeast side of Israel, and his successor Joshua goes in to the promised land and conquers. In general, he is a general and he takes the children of Israel into Israel. He conquers then they fall into apostasy. You know, the Mosaic Law gave them the blessings of God, the manner of conducting their lives, how to worship God, and so on. And they fell into disrespute by following the people in the land, the Canaanites, and their sins. drug abuse, sexual immorality. They had even set up a killing place for their children in a valley next to Israel. Oh, they've done terrible things. And the next period in their history is the period of the judges. there were a series of men leading Israel that were called judges. The last one was a man named Samuel and he anoints the first king under the United Monarchy. The United Monarchy is where the north and the south of that country were all one country. and the first person that he unites or he brings in as the first king is called Saul. The Jewish people had screamed at Samuel, we want a king. We want to be like everybody around us, we want a king. Samuel says, okay I will select a king and you're not going to like it because he's going to conscript, bring into the military and be forced into battle from all your young men. He's them making uniforms and he's going to have them being cooks and working for the army. You're not going to like this because this is going to take away from your family life and your normal rearing of children because everything is going to focus around this war. Then the second king is one that God himself wants an anoints and that's David. David receives the Davidic covenant that we have looked at in several occasions. After David, his son Solomon, the second baby that he had with Bathsheba, becomes the king. And when he dies the kingdom splits in two for several reasons. One, David's sin with Bathsheba. God said I'm not gonna make this easy on you or your family. Solomon is a despot. He's extremely rich. He's extremely sinful even though he writes a lot of good material about God. He's got way too many women, he collected way too many horses, and he basically persecuted the people to work for him. His son Rehoboam stays in the south and a despot from Egypt named Jeroboam I takes 10 of the 12 tribes up in the north and goes there. The true believers come back down into the south. So the entire north kingdom of those 10 tribes are extremely sinful. Not one of those kings ever became a believer or ever followed God. The two in the south, Judah and Benjamin, have mostly bad kings with some good kings. The north then because of their sins is carried away by the Assyrians in 722 BC. The south carried away after three invasions, the third one in 586 BC, they're carried away to Babylon. And this starts what Jesus called in Luke 21, the times of the Gentiles. Because the Gentiles he said will be trotting down Jerusalem until the times of the Gentiles will be fulfilled. So the captivity in Babylon Jeremiah, who is still back, the prophet who is still back in Israel, receives the new covenant and speaks out against what the king is doing. And the king doesn't listen to him because the king, Zedekiah, doesn't want to listen to Jeremiah because Jeremiah is telling him the truth and he doesn't like what Jeremiah says. And he makes it real clear, because one of his other prophets comes to him and says, why don't you listen to this guy? He's telling you what's going to happen. Well, I don't like what he's telling me. OK. I think we can extrapolate that to the general population today, too. You speak the truth, people don't want to hear the truth, so they condemn us for it. The captivity in Babylon, Jeremiah. receives the new covenant which will be fully operative in the Messianic Kingdom. Ezekiel, who is in Babylon, receives images of the Millennial Temple, the Millennium, and allied invasion of the Muslim nation led by the Russians and the eastern block of the Germanic nations. Now this is going to happen sometime in front of us even, but that is how the prophetic books speak. They give us different things. Daniel, who is in Babylon and has been since 605 BC, receives visions of Christ's 70 weeks, the in all world history regarding which form of government would each of these entities have. He talks about the Medes and the Persians, after the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans, the East and West division of imperialism that the Romans implemented, which became the Western democracies. The Medes and the Persians conquer Babylon and Daniel miraculously gets to keep his job as advisor to the king. Now he gets these visions and the Romans, when they finally come to power, start this process of an imperialistic government that they created. All of the modern democracies are imperialistic government. There's nothing wrong with imperialism because it just means that you influence your neighbors. whether it be through embassies or in some terrible way, some war, you know, you're trying to conquer them. It happens where they, these Jewish people, at the end of the Babylonian captivity, about 520 BC, get to go back under the Medes and the Persians. The Medes and the Persians say to those leaders in Israel at that time, you guys can go back. We've got no beef with you. We didn't conquer you. So some, almost 50,000 of them go back. Most of them stayed there because they've been there for 70 years. And most people think that's longer than my grandpa lived even, you know. This doesn't mean anything to me. So they stayed there. The return to Israel by the 12 tribes that come back are discussed in Nehemiah and Ezra. The Greeks then conquer the Medes and the Persians. The Romans conquer the Greeks. And again, they set up this imperialistic form of government that is still here and will continue in various forms until the Lord Jesus comes back at the second coming. As a matter of fact, the Antichrist, his government is going to be the highest level of aggressive imperialism that there has ever been. During the Roman occupation of Israel, Christ is born, he matures, he prophesies, he willingly dies for all mankind and then is resurrected and ascends to the Father. The church is born on the fourth holiday of the Jewish agrarian year. First one, it's not agrarian but it's part of it, is we call it Easter, they called it Pentecost. Then he went into the ground, the Lord Jesus did, on leavened bread. He then rose from the dead on firstfruits and the church is born in the middle of the year on Pentecost. Paul during This church period is called early on and we see the development of the early church in the book of Acts. He's a Pharisee. His name is Saul. He gets converted and we end up having 13 books by him. John, the last apostle to die, discusses the end of the church age in the book that we are concluding today, The Revelation of Jesus. He gets imprisoned by Domitian, the present Caesar at the end of the first century, who wanted everybody to worship him as God. Now they have been, the Caesars that is, have been discussing their status of doing a good job to become a god since Augustus and his wife Olivia, who suggested it to the Senate and the Senate agreed to it. And Tiberius after him and Nero and Caligula and so on. but it's Domitian at the end of the first century that makes it mandatory. Not that, you know, somebody honors him with being a god, which is crazy enough to begin with, but they looked at this as valid. He says, no, no, you're going to worship me as God, and those that didn't would be put to death. So John with God being preserving him, gets imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea right between Greece and Turkey. And he sees the glorified Jesus. He is in a state that we refer to as spiritized, where he can see everything in front of him all the way out to the eternal order. God allows him to see these things so he can write what he has seen, the things which are and the things which will be. Now, he's told to look for the things which are, and those are the seven letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor, Asia Minor, we call it modern Turkey today. They have various degrees of importance for us in different churches, good, bad, indifferent, and so on. And it's also an outline of church history. Ephesus is the apostolic age, Samaria the Roman persecution, Pergamum the age of Constantine, and from Constantine forward the church merged with the state. It actually happened with Theodosius, but it was Constantine issued his Edict of Toleration and that set the stage for this merging. Thyatira, which is the Church of the Dark or Middle Ages, Sardis, the Church of the Reformation, Philadelphia, the Church of the Great Missionary Movement, and then Laodicea, which is the period of church history that we happen to live in. During the time of Laodicea will be the rapture of the church, the resurrection that we will experience, and the judgment of believers, and the things which must come to pass hereafter starts then. So the book of Revelation that we've seen earlier divided into three sections, the things which are, the things which you've seen, and the things which will come to pass after. We see the events in heaven preceding the Great Tribulation in Revelation chapters 4 and 5, the throne room of God in chapter 4, where the cherubim, the seraphim, the angels are there, the raptured church is there. Then we see the Father with seven seals on it, and there's this cry that goes out from everybody in heaven, who's worthy to open it? Jesus is the person, the person who has earned the right as our Goel, has sacrificed himself for us. He then in chapter 5 takes the title deed to the earth and he's preparing to bring the tribulation on this world. We see that starting in chapter 6 and it goes all the way to chapter 921. There's a series of seal judgments, seven of them to be exact. Then 144,000 Jews are anointed to bring the gospel to this world and that anointing prevents them from being harmed by all the terrible things happen in the tribulation. All the germ and chemical warfare and the nuclear weapons and everything that's taken place where a massive percentage of the world's population out. It's going to be the biggest evangelistic effort from those 144,000 that's ever happened. After the seal judgments, the last one initiates the trumpet judgments, and there's 12 of them. And they run all the way to the 14th chapter where we are in discussion with the, that's from 7 to 14, discussion with the events of the middle of the Tribulation. We get around the 10th chapter, there's a discussion of the Tribulation Temple, the two witnesses, God places in Jerusalem. They run through the seventh trumpet. That happens and we talk about Israel in the Tribulation. We see this beast coming from the sea, who's the Antichrist, and the beast from the earth, who's the false prophet. Now there's a whole series of announcement in the middle of the tribulation. Ecclesiastical Babylon is destroyed, the two witnesses die, the Antichrist is worshipped, the two witnesses are resurrected and go to heaven. The mark of the beast is given and anybody that doesn't have that on their hand or their forehead will not be able to conduct normal commerce in life. The seven-year covenant gets broken in the middle that the Antichrist had made with the leaders in Israel. This brings on a persecution of the Jews in the second half of the tribulation where two-thirds of the nation Israel will die. There's a prelude here, just a short prelude, and then there's the bowl judgments that come after, the bowl, B-O-W-L, come after the trumpet judgment, and then there's discussion about the two Babylon's, ecclesiastical and occultic, economic and occultic, excuse me. There's actually three Babylon's because there's also the city, The Bible discusses this economic system that is loved more than God. People love more of this world system, money, commerce, and so on, and they do him. The occult becomes rambunct after the church is taken out. So we will all be left. We will all be leaving, if you will, and leave behind this massive amount of unbelievers, some of which will become believers during that period. The second coming is described in chapter 19, and the prelude to the second coming that we've looked at is this campaign of Armageddon. Eight stages of this campaign, and the Antichrist and the false prophet are dealt with after that. Satan is bound for a thousand years in the abyss and the messianic kingdom begins. We see the reign of Messiah. We see the great white throne judgment at the end of it, where all unbelievers are judged, and the eternal order, and the passing of the old order, creation of the new order, And Revelation 22, 6 and 7 say, And he said unto me, this is John speaking, These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to slew unto his servants the things which shortly must be done. Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. So this is an authentication of the book and all of the chronology because this is a culmination of all world events that God has given us. The spirit of prophecy is Jesus and the spirit of the prophecy of the prophets inspired us. Because Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, this book begins with a blessing and it ends with a blessing. 22, 8 through 9, John says, and I saw these things and heard them. And when I have heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel, which showed me these things. Then said he unto me, See thou do it not, for I am a fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book. Worship God. So he's saying I'm not God, I'm not to be worshipped, but I am just like a prophet, and he's declaring him to be a prophet too. The angel gives this message to John, authenticates the book of Revelation, and he's basically saying don't seal up these words, get this out. And this is a whole lot different than what Daniel got. because Daniel was told somewhere between 597 and 586 BC, you seal this up. This is for you, not for others until the time. In Revelation 22, 10 says, and to the angel, to John, he says unto me, seal not the sayings of this prophecy of this book for the time is at hand. You know, Daniel was given this vastly complex set of prophecies, and he didn't understand it. And he was told that you won't understand it. A new declaration was made here though. No, I want everybody to understand this. This is for now. This is for people to understand. Then the next verse in 22 11 says, he that is unjust let him be unjust still. he which is filthy, let him be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him be holy still. So everybody that is righteous will continue to act that way and in obedience towards God. And those that are not, that won't accept this, that won't give their will not. They won't enter the eternal order. And the key is do people believe the way that it's written or not? I've heard so many unbelievers not wanting to believe it or they twist it. You know, the purpose of Messiah's coming back is given in Revelation 22, 12. And behold, I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according at his work shall be. So the purpose of Jesus' return is to give everybody who's here what he has done. This is all that is going to come about to the unbelievers. We're not judged on our works, we're judged on our belief, and we're taken out of this earth before the tribulation starts. When Jesus comes back at the end of the tribulation, he's the judge everybody for what they've done. And that is the unbelievers at the great white throne judgment that we've looked at. Revelation 22, 13 says, I am Alpha, and the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Then it's given, the declaration in verse 14 is given to the people living in Jerusalem. Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter into the gates of the city. Redemption, those that are believers go in, those that are not do not. Verse 15 says, for without or outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoso loveth and maketh a lie. Now the unbelievers will not be in the eternal order, will not be in the New Jerusalem coming down, and they will ultimately just die out. All the unbelievers don't go in at all, don't go in at all. Outside the eternal order is the lake of fire and they will all be put into the lake of fire. The contents of hell will be dumped there. Satan is going to go in, the false prophets, all unbelievers and antichrists. They do not get annihilated in the lake of fire. They stay in the lake of fire and have eternal torment. That is the end result of people that are not believers in the fact that God came to this earth in the form of a man, Jesus of Nazareth, to provide our destiny in heaven with him in paradise. And he makes that offer as a gift. Verse 16 in chapter 22 says, I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root, the offspring of David, and the bright morning star. It's an invitation to salvation. Now bear in mind this was given 2300 years ago. So we've had 2300 years to get people to understand these truths. Verse 17 says, And the Spirit and the bride say, Come, and let him that hear it say, Come, and let him that is a thirst come, and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. Then there's a warning in verses 18 and 19, For I testify unto every man adhereth these words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add him the plagues that are written in the book. Now what he's saying is you twist the scripture, you try and change it, you're not going out in the church. You're not part of the church to get raptured and resurrected out. You're going to go through these plagues, all these bad things that are happening. the unbelievers will go through the tribulation. Now there have been plenty of people, plenty of so-called Christian denominations, I call them Christian cults, that have twisted the scripture. Some would not, like Rome, would not let people read the Bible for hundreds of years. They persecuted people for having Bibles. They would not let anybody translate the Bible into a vernacular language. William Tyndale did this and he got burned at the stake. And his goal was to make sure that everybody would understand, even if you were a guy that was plowing the fields, you would understand what God is saying. So the people of that day killed him for bringing the truth. Once the Apostle died, there could be no more scripture written. And there are cults that do this, the Mormons, the Watchtower Society, the Christian scientists, the Seventh-day Adventists. These are not normal groups of Christian people. These are cults that have twisted the scripture. They're all going to be in the lake of fire. The authority of the scripture is cast aside as non-believing and non-important. They're going to be there too in the lake of fire. Do not follow these people. Do not follow people that do not believe the Bible. We have biblical English translations, some of which have flaws. some of which have less flaws. Every translation out of Hebrew and Greek is going to have some issues, but I like to make the statement that to read the Bible in English with a decent translation like a King James or American Standard or you know, something along those lines. It's like looking at black and white TV. You read it in Hebrew and Greek and it's like color TV. It's the same message, but man is there a lot more details. There's a lot more information, but it's the same message. Revelation 20, 20 is the second affirmation and it says, he which testify these things say it surely. I come quickly. Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus. So Jesus the Messiah is himself affirming that he wrote this book. He's not bound by time and space and this quickly means imminency for him to come to us. And then finally comes the benediction in verse 21. the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. So ends our study of the book of Revelation. John saw him in a manner that we have not seen him. The population of Jerusalem saw him in his resurrected body for 40 days. And even now, John says, this is different than what I saw. So different. We look at how he began this book with the things that he has seen. In Revelation 1, those verse three verses say, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to show unto his servant things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John, who bore witness of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is at hand. Listen, blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is at hand. But when we look at this and say, well, what did he see? he sees the entire apocalypse. That word has been misused as war, Armageddon, or something. It doesn't. It's unveiling. Just means the true nature of Jesus as he has become from being in heaven, sitting at the right hand of God the Father. The time is at hand for us to understand these things. And those of us that are students of his scriptures have been given the ability to see these things, to understand these things and convey them. And that's why we have this compulsion to tell others. So others will know and see our testimony and will accept it and avoid them being in the demise, if you will, ending in a lake of fire. We're servants of God. John's seeing this a whole lot differently now than even he did at the beginning of his book of Revelation, because when Jesus is coming back, he is the fulfillment of all that God had embodied in one resurrected, glorious glorious Messiah that's coming back. It's a different view than we were given at the beginning of this book. Jesus looks like and is a king coming back to set up his throne in the Millennial Mountain, in Jerusalem, in the temple and then the eternal order will come on at the end of those thousands of years. Let us pray. Father, we love you and we are so humbled by what you are showing us and telling us and how important it is to fulfill our role on this world as believers to tell others. We can't influence the course of human events, Father. Whoever gets elected, whoever gets appointed and so on, but what we can do is tell others about you. It's not a responsibility to force you on anybody and argue with them. Apologetic discourse is appropriate if they want to engage. But we must tell people, Father, so that they will be with us in paradise when we leave these bodies. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name, we pray these things. Amen. Shall we sing our next hymn and take our offering? precious blood I shed, that Thou mightst ransom me and break them from the dead. I gave my name, my life for Thee. for me. I gave, I gave my life for thee. What hast thou given for me? My Father's house of life, my glory serve of gold. I left, I left it all for thee, hast thou left all for me? It all for thee, has now left all for me. I suffer much for thee, more than my tongue can tell. of bitterest agony to rescue thee from hell. I'm born, I'm born in awe for thee. I've borne, I've borne it all for thee. What hast thou borne for me? And I have brought to thee out from my home I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee, what hast thou wrought? In our last verse, excuse me, our last tune, the last mile of the way. way of beauty. In my work, till the close of the day, I shall see the great king in his beauty. the last mile of the way. When I've gone the last mile of the way, I will rest at the close of the day, and I know there are joys that await me. When I've gone the last mile I am sure He will show me His glory when I've gone the last mile of the way. When I'm gone the last mile, the last mile away, I will rest at the foothills of the day. And I know there are joys that await me when I'm gone the last mile. we must sever. Tears of sorrow are seen every day, but no sickness, no sighing forever. When I've known the last mile of the road, When I'm gone, the last smile of the way. I will rest at the close of the day. And I know there are joys that await me. When I'm gone, the last smile of the day. When I've gone the last mile of the way. I will rest at the close of the day, and I know there are joys that await me when I'm home, though as far away. Amen. Dale, can you close us in prayer, please? Lord, thank you so much for bringing us together today. Lord, we are so thankful for all the blessings that you shower down upon us. And Lord, we are thankful for the word that you have given us. Right from the very beginning all the way to the end, Lord, You have laid out a story through the Old Testament and the New Testament combined. Lord, we are thankful for that direction and Lord, for the time that it has taken for mankind to understand that message and still in the future for us to understand. Lord, we are thankful for the word that you have given us. Lord, we ask that in this upcoming week you be with our nation as we are facing an opportunity for voting in leadership for our country. Lord, we ask that people vote according to your will and according to the words of the Bible. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. That concludes our service for today. God bless you.