You're going to open your books to the book of Revelation,
it'll be in Revelation chapter number one.
Revelation chapter number one, if you don't have a Bible,
there should be one underneath the seat in front of you.
It'll be in Revelation one.
Revelation one, the Bible reads,
"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him
to show unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass.
And he sent and signified it by his angel
unto his servant John, who bear record of the word of God
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ
and of all 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 therein for the time is at hand.
John to the seven churches which are in Asia,
grace be unto you in peace from him which is and which was
and which is to come and from the seven spirits
which are before his throne.
And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness
and the first begotten of the dead
and the prince of the kings of the earth.
Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins
his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. To him be glory and
dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him, even so.
Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is and which was,
and which is to come, the Almighty. I, John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation,
and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos. For the
word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ, I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,
and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet, saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last. And what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia,
and unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis,
and unto Philadelphia, and unto Leiricea." And I turned to see the voice that spake with me,
and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks,
one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a white garment down to the foot,
and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool,
as white as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto fine brass,
as if they burned in a furnace. And his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right
hand seven stars. And out of his mouth, when a sharp two-edged sword in his countenance was as
the sun, shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I felt his feet as dead. And he laid his right
hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not, I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was
dead. And behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death. Write the
things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.
The mystery of the seven stars which which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden
candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks
which thou sawest are the seven churches. Brother Temmel, will you pray for us? Revelation. We're
going to be starting a series on Sunday nights, and we're going to go through the whole book.
So it's something that I've been asked about a lot of times, so figured it's probably time. And
just before we get into the passage here, they say that the book of Revelation was written around
90 AD, which would put the writing around 20 years after the destruction of Jerusalem.
And why is that important? Well, people will say that, you know, preterists especially,
and people will say that John wrote this before, but that's a minority of people that think that.
And they have to say that because otherwise, preterism doesn't work. And so if these things
are written after that, 20 years after that, then it's pretty hard on your preterism. So
the preterists like, they want to say it was written in 66 AD so that it fits in their
timeline of Jerusalem and the temple being destroyed. So that way they can, you know,
put it in their little box or whatever. But, and I'll explain a little bit later why people think
that it was written in 90 AD or around 90 AD historically. But obviously the Bible is the
only thing that we can truly trust. But you know, history does have some things that we can trust.
It does have some dates that are fairly trustworthy. I know that there's a lot of, you know, people will
say history is just that his story and to the victors go the spoils and also that they get to
write history as they see fit. That's not always necessarily 100% true because some things are just
facts of history. I mean we know that Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD and we know because it's
still there, it's still destroyed, the rocks are still there, the stones from the temple are still
laying on the side of the temple mount. So, but people like to rewrite where the temple mount is
too, but that's a different story for a different time. So, but the book Revelation is key to
unlocking the book, and I mentioned this the other night, a couple weeks ago in my sermon about
in 2 Timothy chapter 3, and we have to understand that, you know, like, well,
I was told by a pastor a long time ago that the book Revelation was the key to unlocking Daniel,
but it's really the, or no, that Daniel was the key to unlocking Revelation, but in reality,
Revelation is the key to unlocking Daniel. So, this is called the Revelation because it's the
revealing of when Jesus Christ is going to come back and when the end times are going to happen,
or what's going to happen in the end times. And it's the last book of the Bible. And the
Bible is sealed after this. There's no more books to be added to it. And in the book Revelation,
it pronounces all these curses upon those that would tamper with this book specifically, but also
there's warnings throughout the scriptures about changing them. So, now we have also,
I believe there's only certain things that we'll understand in this book and maybe not completely
understand everything until these times are actually upon us. There's certain things that
was just hard for us to imagine what these things look like. And especially for John in those times,
it's like it starts talking about these bugs that come out, these scorpion type bugs with long hair
like women. And it's just hard, I mean, until you see those things happening, it's going to be kind
of hard to imagine what they actually look like. So all we have is the description in the Bible.
And so there's just some things in there in the book of Revelation that we kind of just have to
take at face value. And, you know, some of, obviously some of the things in Revelation,
a lot of things in Revelation are pictures of things, you know, that's not, you know,
there's a lot of symbolism in Revelation, but it doesn't mean that the whole thing is symbolic.
A lot of people say that the whole book of Revelation is symbolic and that's not true either, so,
but my plan is to preach this, obviously for 22 weeks, but if I feel the need to slow down,
take a couple weeks to nail some doctrine down, I will, and I plan on studying out the book for
myself and coming out with my own conclusion and whatever I believe the scriptures say,
and if I don't understand the passage completely, I'll just skip over it, so
I don't think anybody knows completely everything in the Bible, and I'm not saying that I'm going to
just give up and not try to preach it, but I don't think anybody knows every passage and what every
passage in the Bible means, but I'll do my best, and I'll always tell you if something is my opinion,
because some things are just hard to be understood, and the secret things belong
unto the Lord, and if it's my opinion, then I'm just going to say that that's my opinion,
and I'm definitely interested in talking about these types of things after church,
and I will lay some cases out on what I believe on the disputed text, but then tell you what I
believe and why I believe it without necessarily being ultra-dogmatic about it, because, you know,
one of the things that we say is that end times Bible prophecy isn't something that we would
necessarily separate with people over, so to say that but then not actually apply it in real life,
is kind of being hypocritical, so if there's nuances of what people believe on end times
Bible prophecy, now to say that Jesus has already come back, that's not, I mean, that's where you
got your cross and a line. I won't have fellowship with somebody that believes that. I won't have
fellowship that says that they're Jesus Christ either, so I mean, there's a lot of things I'm
not willing to compromise on, okay, if they think that they're the temple and are measuring their
head and stuff like that, okay, I'm outtie. 5,000, bro. So, but with that being said, let's begin here.
So, first thing I want to point out is that, you know, this is the revealing of Jesus Christ. Look
at verse number one. It says, "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to show unto
his servants the things which must shortly come to pass, and he sent and signified it by his angel
unto his servant John." So what's being revealed here? Well, the things that will happen in the end
and in the end times. Who's revealing it? It's Jesus Christ, of course. And who gave it to him?
Well, it says God gave it to him. And so when is this supposed to happen? Well, it says the things
that must shortly come to pass. And see, people will take passages like this and they'll say,
"See, it was supposed to shortly is going to happen like any moment," right? But, you know,
sometimes God says things like that, but to Him, it is shortly coming to pass. To Him,
it's really quick. I guess I'm not going to have us turn there, but I'm just going to read this
really quickly in 2 Peter 3. It says, in 2 Peter 3, 8 says, "But beloved, be not ignorant of this
one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
In other words, time means nothing to Him. And to Him, one day is like a thousand years. So if
He's been gone for two thousand years, that means only in His, you know, really it just means time
means nothing to Him, but it's like two days for Him. So really, to Him it does mean nothing,
and it's shortly coming to pass for Him because, you know, but to us it's not necessarily a short
time period. So that doesn't really hold a lot of water when it comes to, because Jesus hasn't come
back. That's just a fact. So if He came back, then there would be resurrection, there would be people
with glorified bodies, and still to this day, Jesus is the only one that has a glorified body.
Otherwise, show me all the people with glorified bodies. They don't exist. So Jesus still is the
only person that is the first begotten of the dead. Jesus is the only one that has a glorified body,
and that's just the way it is. So these things have not happened yet. And so when people say,
"So no, it happened right afterwards, because it says shortly come to pass." Well, like, show me
where it happened then. Show me in history where it happened. And when you say that all this
persecution of Christians happened, no, that was persecution of the Jews because they, you know,
they first took Jesus and said, "Let His blood be upon us and upon our children." So
people will say, "Aha, eminence," or, "Aha, this already happened." But God is going to come back
when He wants to. It says, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promises. Some men count slackness,
but as long as suffering to us, we are not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance." So He's waiting for what? He's waiting for a lot of people to get saved. He's
waiting for the precious fruit for the latter rains. He wants us to reap the corners. But it says,
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works
that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and
hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." So, I mean, those days are coming. It's
just, you know, when it says shortly to God, it is a short time. It says, "Nevertheless, according
to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." So, we just
have to kind of hang on. And also, it says that he signified it or he sent and signified it by his
angel unto his servant John. Now, I just want to explain something to you really quick about angels.
All right, just because the Bible says angel, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's always an
angelic being and that's where I think that people get confused. I had somebody and I always use this
example because the guy was just, he was just trying to pick at me about something that is
actually when I preached about out of this passage actually a long time ago and he was saying that I
was wrong and he was trying to just say that angel always means angelic being and then you know I
just proved to him that that's just not the case and anyway this passage shows that and in the book
of revelation he's being told these things by someone that's called an angel but when he actually
tries to bow down to this person then he says that he's what he's a fellow servant of his
and that he's of the prophets so but the same guy is talking to him through I mean most of the time
throughout the whole thing and so when it says that he sent and signified by his angel onto his
servant John that the world the word angel means messenger also it's used interchangeably in the
Bible the same Greek word is used and so angel just means messenger so and because otherwise
it'd be a contradiction in Hebrews one wouldn't it because Jesus is Jesus the messenger I mean
is Jesus a prophet was Jesus a prophet was Jesus the messenger of God too was John a messenger
yes he was Hebrews 1 4 says being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they and so when you know in the Old Testament who believes
that there's theophanies in the Bible or Christophanies in the Bible where it was the angel
of those he was called the angel of the Lord but it was actually God appearing before he had an
incarnate body as a human anybody believe that because I do when he wrestled with the angel
Jacob said he called the place Peniel because he saw God face to face and lived so he didn't see
God the father so who did he see he saw Jesus before he you know but he was called the angel
of the Lord by Manoah and his wife when he went and prophesied about Samson coming and so there's
lots of different times in the Bible when you know even the captain of the host when Joshua saw the
captain of the host he was an angel but you know angel like I said just means messenger so but
then it says in Hebrews one for which of which of the angels said he at any time thou art my son
this day have I begotten thee and again I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son and
again when he bringeth forth the first begotten into the world he saith and let all the angels
of God worship him and of the angels he saith who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers
a flame of fire so if you're talking about the angels you're going to have to it's kind of one
of those things where you have to get the context it's like the word wine you know wine can mean
the alcoholic beverage or it can mean the non-alcoholic fruit juice so it just depends
on the context and with angels it's kind of it's it's a similar concept so Isaiah turn to Isaiah
40 verse 3 I don't want you to fall asleep on me Isaiah 40 verse 3 so there's prophecies about
John the Baptist that he would come and the word for angels translated here as a messenger
actually it's when it's fulfilled in the New Testament it's called a messenger so let's see
this isn't the spot where it says it but anyway Isaiah 40 verse 3 it's a very famous passage
prophesying of John the Baptist it says the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness verse 3
prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God every valley shall
be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight
and the rough place is plain and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it
together for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it now turn to Malachi chapter 3 Malachi chapter 3
so that's a famous passage about the voice of him that cryeth in the wilderness of course it's
talking about John the Baptist and then in Malachi chapter 3 one it says behold I will send my
messenger and he shall prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to
his temple even the messenger of the covenant whom you delight in behold he shall come said the Lord
of hosts so you have the Lord being called a messenger here and you also have John the Baptist
being called a messenger so two different places and again you could translate those things that
same word as angel. In Malachi 4, Malachi 4.5 says behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord he shall turn the heart of the fathers
to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse so now uh turn to Matthew chapter 11 I'm making it easy for you because they're
all in a row here but Matthew chapter 11 um and Jesus he's kind of just asking people like who do
you what did you go out in the wilderness to see and a lot of times people just think that
you know preachers are supposed to be all nice all the time and just you know soft and whatnot
and that they never get up and scream and shout and all this other stuff they dress all fancy
and and all this but Jesus kind of shatters that image and John wasn't what people thought he was
going to be and people when they see just some wild Baptist you know frothing at the mouth when
he's preaching or whatever they they kind of don't like it but what's he say here in Matthew 11 7 it
says and as they departed Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John what went you out
into the wilderness to see a reed shaken with the wind like some kind of skinny weak preacher or
something but what went you out for to see a man clothed in soft raiment behold they that wear
soft clothing are in king's houses but what went you out for to see a prophet yea I say unto you
and more than a prophet for this is he of whom it is written behold I send my messenger before
thy face so of course he's quoting Isaiah right there which shall prepare thy way before thee
verily I say unto you among them that are born of women there is not risen a greater than John the
Baptist notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he and from the
days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by
force for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John and if you'll receive it this is Elias
which was for to come he that hath ears to hear let him hear so then he also brings the Malachi
prophecy in and lets us know that the Malachi is also speaking of Elias or Elijah the prophet
coming and he said well if you'll if you'll if you'll take it you know this is Elijah that was
supposed to come I believe Elijah actually is going to come too this is was a shadow fulfillment
of those things but now flip over to Revelation chapter 22 Revelation chapter 22 verse number
8 verse number 8 so and this is the guy that's been kind of leading John through the book of
Revelation in all these different places and when John was taken up it's like he's taken up in the
spirit to see these things he's he's being shown these visions he's not actually necessarily in
these places but I believe that he's being shown visions here but it says in Revelation 22 8 it
says and I John saw these things and heard them when I had heard and seen I fell down and worship
to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things then saith he unto me see
thou do it not for I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep
the saints of this book worship God so I mean right there that just proves that when someone is called
an angel they're not necessarily an angel you know that we would think of when we think of the
word angel a lot of you think of a fat little cherub with the you know with the little tiny
wings and stuff but that's not what they necessarily look like but um usually people are falling down
and and they're like they're dead you know when they see them or whatever but you know sometimes
God just sends a man that's already you know it seems to me like this is he says he's of the
prophets so who knows who this actually is it might be Jeremiah or you know somebody that we
don't know but he's he's like don't do it don't worship me you need to worship God and i'm like
you know i'm a fellow server i'm just like you so let's get back to revelation one look at verse two
it says who bear record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ
and of all 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 therein for the time is at hand so you know it's
nice that the book of revelation kind of starts off this way and it tells us hey blessed is he
that readeth you know a lot of people are afraid of the book of revelation they're afraid to study
it because they don't understand it or whatever and that's it's probably because a lot of people
like to use the book of revelation and teach false doctrine out of it they like to teach false things
out of it and instead of just approaching it and trying their best to to understand it creatures
will just whatever their bible college told them to to say that's what they say and really most
people in in in christianity today believe in the pre-trib rapture that's what most people believe
but i think there's been a resurgence of people that actually do believe in the post-trib rapture
and they don't always necessarily believe it exactly like we would believe it but
they do believe the post-trib rapture they might believe a variation of it but we believe in the
pre-wrath post-trib rapture we don't believe that we're going to get the wrath of god
but that we would go through the tribulation if we were still you know alive and made it through it
so the pastors and anyone that would avoid this book because it's too hard are doing themselves
and our church a disservice because the bible says blessed is he that readeth and they hear
the words of this prophecy that's not it doesn't say you know hey avoid it because it's too hard
don't listen to don't read it because it's too hard no god wants us to he wants us to read it
he said there's a blessing for reading it and they hear the words and i don't know if it's
necessarily talking i mean obviously if you hear the words like being spoken or being read to you
audibly it could be talking about that but i think that it also can be also talking about that you
actually hear what it means you're picking up the understanding of what it actually means
blessed to see that hear the words uh they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those
things which are written therein because there's warnings in the book of revelation of things that
you shouldn't be doing you know he wants us to watch and be ready he doesn't want us to you know
get drunken and just act like you know think and be asleep and and not ready for these things and
you know being doing wickedly while you know waiting for our lord to come back and so we
shouldn't just avoid these things because they're too hard we need to try to our best to understand
what the bible says about these things and you don't have to be a pastor to understand it
there's a lot of good source material out there i know that pastor anderson has a 22 volume
revelation series that he's put out that are really good you know those are really good they're about
an hour long each i think almost exactly an hour long if you can find it i don't know if you can
find it on the internet anymore but i think that we still have some dvds of that and that's really
good i think pastor shelley has done a walk through of that i'm not sure who else has but
i mean there's some good stuff out there but also you have the spirit of god you can try to figure
stuff out for yourself i mean just don't get all don't don't start predicting the rapture or
anything like that and you'll be all right don't don't think that we're in satan's little season
or anything so but uh i would avoid like going to study bibles and going to you know buying a book
called you know revelation for dummies or something like that uh but uh you know but but it's funny
because it says blessed is he that readeth and they hear the words of this prophecy and those
things that are written and keep those things that are written they're in you know that that those
monk that monkey picture it's like here no it see no evil hear no evil or whatever what is it it's
here no evil see no evil do no evil or something huh and speak no evil okay but when it comes to
the book of revelation it's see the evil you know you want to see the evil that's coming to put
because this is coming upon mankind you want to see the evil you want to hear the evil it tells
you to listen to it because really what's happening here mostly is evil coming upon the world it's not
like evil as in he you know it's like but evil means harm and god is going to do harm to this
world because of the wickedness and the sinfulness of this world and that they've rejected god
as a whole for the most part and then so see the evil hear the evil and keep yourself from
the evil is really what it should be so i don't know how you would draw those monkeys but maybe
someone needs to try we could draw those monkeys and make our own little revelation poster or
something about it but anyway uh move on to number two here uh john to the seven churches so and
what's funny is that you know people believe in this universal church doctrine where they think
that everybody's the church you know what you know once you're a christian that everybody's the church
no matter where you're at no matter what you're doing we're all the church and that's just not
true um first of all you have to be going to a place that people gather together that are saved
and there has to be the correct leadership there has to be the correct function they have to believe
the right things so if you go to a jehovah's witness kingdom hall tomorrow or next week for
church that well first of all i don't think they call it a church they call it a kingdom hall
so they don't even like the name church they don't like anything that's actually biblical
even even like the cross they try to call it a torture stake and they like try to say that
jesus died on a torture stake and and how do they i forget definitely like it's like they think that
jesus like had his hands he's on just on a pole or something and yeah so uh but like just not
everything is a church and just because someone's on the tv like saying hold up and they're holding
up a napkin saying you'll come and touch the napkin and you'll be healed that's not a church
and if some woman's up there preaching and saying you know wearing pants and she's up there saying
that she's the pastor of whatever church she's not the church that's not the church if you're
sitting at home watching you know Joyce Meyer on tv that's not the church and I don't know
where people get this idea but the church is a local called out assembly and even in Moses day
when he had all the he had all those millions of people camped out in the wilderness he pitched
the tent of the tabernacle away from the congregation so they couldn't just roll out of bed and just
roll into the into the congregation they had to actually get up get ready and walk a little ways
to get to the church to get to the church in the wilderness the bible calls it the church in the
wilderness why is it called that because church means congregation and if you're if it's called
a congregation that means it's a place where people gather together so it means church means
congregation and so look what it says in verse four says john to the seven churches which are
in asia so is that plural or or singular there churches is that plural or singular yeah plural
that means there's more than one right and it's to the churches which are in asia grace be unto you
and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which
are before his throne so i think it's just interesting to note that there's seven churches
again different congregations and another thing it's interesting we just studied this in second
timothy that all the churches in asia turned away from the apostle paul remember that we just
talked about that if you were here or you listened online that the all asia forsook the apostle paul
and this is before this happened this before he was asked to write this so what does that tell you
well those churches were still considered churches but what is the main why is he having them write
these letters to these churches because they got problems right i mean almost i think all but one
have negative things that are said about them and some are super negative but that shouldn't
really surprise us considering that they had all turned against the apostle paul and but that also
shows you that they can people christian churches can turn against the good man of god and still be
considered a church so i mean a church can get pretty bad before god you know takes away their
candlestick so to speak so and the church in ethesus we know that he took that candlestick away
because it's not there anymore it hasn't been sitting there as a you know independent succession
baptist church or whatever for 2000 years you know i don't believe that doctrine anyway but i'm just
saying that you know you can't go to ethesus baptist you know this is the church that the
apostle paul started it's and this is where you know eunuchus fell out the window or you know you
can't you can't see those places because they don't exist and the warnings that jesus gave these
churches are because they're already having problems they're already on you know on the verge why he
had him write to these churches well maybe because they're in the most danger i mean they're probably
the most danger of being destroyed and sifted by the devil himself so i'm not exactly sure why but
i just trust that jesus knew what he was doing so but he says join uh john to the seven churches
which are in asia grace be unto you and peace from him which is which was and which is to come
from the seven spirits which are before his throne so now all like i said all these churches
they have problems except for one and then jesus obviously is the him which is which was which is
to come spoiler alert there so um yeah he he is he is right now because jesus is alive it's not like
he rose from the dead and then died again no he rose from the dead and he lives forever more
just like we will live forever more when we get our glorified bodies too when he comes back and
resurrects us from the dead but it says he was he is and he was and he is to come so why does it say
he was because he died right so he died and then he is to come so that means what he's coming back
amen he's coming back to claim us and he's coming back to change us i'm happy for that so now what
are these seven spirits which are before the throne this is an interesting portion here that
it's talking about it's like um you kind of have to do a little bit of study for this so let's turn
to isaiah chapter 11 isaiah chapter 11 was obviously keep your finger here in revelation chapter 1
and turn to isaiah 11 isaiah 11 chapter or chapter 11 verse 1 the bible says and there shall come
forth a rod out of the stem of jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots who's that talking
about the lord jesus christ right it says and the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him the spirit
of wisdom and understanding and the spirit of counsel and might and the spirit of knowledge
and of the fear of the lord so that's if you're counting there that's seven spirits that are
upon the lord jesus christ and so when it says in revelation 1 4 that the seven spirits which are
before the throne these are those seven spirits that it's talking about and so when jesus was
filled with the spirit without measure he was filled with the holy spirit and then these
seven spirits that it talks about here in isaiah chapter 11 they're obviously referring right to
jesus christ because he is the rod of the stem of jesse and the branch that shall grow out of his
roots so what are the seven spirits again the spirit of the lord of course we know that's the
holy spirit and in the holy spirit of course he has his uh the different attributes of the holy
spirit the spirit of wisdom the spirit of understanding the spirit of counsel the spirit
of might and the spirit of knowledge so the spirit of wisdom obviously to give us wisdom
in the in the scriptures of course and jesus had all this wisdom and of understanding to be able
to understand uh well wisdom is understanding how to apply the knowledge that you have and the
spirit of understanding is how to understand the things that you're reading as far as the bible
goes the spirit of counsel and the spirit of might uh you think about the spirit of might i mean
and and you might not automatically think that jesus had all this might because he wasn't going
around battering people but did samson have the spirit of might upon him when he was filled with
the spirit what did he do he picked up gates they're like these super huge gates and carried
him up a hill and just walked up you know he killed slayed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass
so the holy spirit can make you mighty a lot of times when the holy spirit would come upon people
in the old testament it was he was doing damage he was very powerful right and then of course
jesus could walk on water and you talk about moving mountains and jesus didn't come to kill
and destroy but when he comes back he's going to be doing that and it says the spirit of knowledge
and the spirit of the fear of the lord so all those are those seven spirits now um let's see
go to uh revelation three one revelation three one and i put down a whole bunch of other scriptures
but i'm not going to probably go to all of them just for sake of time but i do want to show you
a couple more here um revelation three one so it mentions the seven spirits of god and other parts
here revelation three one it says that unto the angel of the church and sardis write these things
saith he that hath the seven spirits of god and the seven stars i know thy works that thou hast
the name that thou livest and art dead well i'm glad i hope he doesn't ever says that about our
church that uh that's a bad thing to have said about you right i know that that thou hast a name
and thou livest and art dead you know i would really hate to have that be said about our church
but that's what he said about the church of sardis but notice how it says these things saith he that
hath the seven spirits of god so of course again this is talking about jesus christ turn to
revelation four five revelation four five it says out of the throne proceedeth lightnings and thunderings
and voices and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven
spirits of god so you know i mean you've probably seen the menorah as it's called you know the jewish
menorah it's not really the jewish menorah though it's just the lamp that was supposed to be in
that in that room and how many it has that one that turns into seven different you know candles
and all the oil comes up in the and it flames the seven different so that represents the seven
spirits of god so that's what it's kind of explaining that in heaven it says out and out
of the throne proceedeth lightnings and thunderings and voices and there were seven lamps of fire
burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of god there's seven lamps and so you
know those that was supposed to be one but see it you know you might think well why is it saying
that there's seven spirits well but it also is coming out of one it's all just coming out of one
source though so it's just these different uh what different ministries i guess you would say
of what the holy spirit does and i won't have you turn there but i'll have you turn to revelation
five i'm going to read a verse from zechariah chapter four zechariah chapter four verse two
says and said unto me what seest thou and i said i have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold
with a bowl on the top of it and his and his seven lamps there on and seven pipes to the seven lamps
which are upon the top thereof and in verse six he says then he answered and spake unto me saying
this is the word of the lord undesirable saying not by might nor by power but by my spirit sayeth
the lord of hosts and so there's a connection obviously with those the the seven lamps the seven
pipes and the spirit of the god of god and so revelation five six says and i beheld and lo
in the midst of the throne and the four beasts in the midst of the elders stood a lamp as it had
been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of god sent forth into all
the earth so when jesus went to heaven he said if i don't go then i'm not going to be able to send
the comforter so the comforter is the holy spirit go ahead and turn to john chapter 16 and so the
the ministry of the holy spirit is that he goes before and he convinces people of their need of
salvation he doesn't speak of himself but he speaks of jesus and we pray to the holy spirit
that he would open up hearts and minds and for people to be saved but look what it says in john
16 4 it says um you know and this is the this is the ministry of the holy spirit says but these
things have i told you and when the time shall come that you may remember that i told you of them
and these things i said not unto you at the beginning because i was with you but now i go
my i go my way to him that sent me and none of you asketh me whether goeth thou but because i
have said these things unto you sorrow hath filled your heart nevertheless i tell you the truth it is
expedient for you that i go away for if i go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if
i depart i will send him unto you so he's talking about the holy spirit he's going to send the
holy spirit to them if he goes and it says and when he is come he will reprove the world of sin
and of righteousness and of judgment of sin because they believe not on me of righteousness
because i go to my father and you see me no more of judgment because the prince of this world is
judged i have yet many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now albeit when he the spirit
of truth has come he will he will guide you into all truth so you see how the spirit of power the
spirit of wisdom the spirit of knowledge all these things he he gives that to he gives the holy spirit
to us as a gift to guide us in our life and to give us and when you're talking about power you
know the gift the the gift of the spirit of you know the power that we get from the holy spirit
that is all these that seven-fold spirit gives us the power to do the works of god on earth
and he and he did that so that we could exponentially do greater works than him but it
says for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak
and he will got he will show you things to come he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine
and shall show it unto you all things that the father hath of mine therefore said i that he
shall take of mine and shall show it unto you so he sends the holy spirit and like in revelation
it says that he sends it out he sends the holy spirit out to the whole world turn back to john
15 real quick john 15 verse 26 and it's interesting because john he had john write the book of
revelation there's not a big giant prophecy chapter in the book of john if you've ever
noticed that you have the big you have the big prophecy chapters in matthew mark and luke but
in john you kind of just get john 14 and he kind of just says a few things in john 14 but it's not
like the full-on jerusalem's going to get destroyed and attacked and all that stuff and it's because
john he probably knew that john was going to get the whole book of revelation which is
you know a pretty beefy pretty scary book and uh you know he actually got the biggest chunk
of bible prophecy because he wrote a whole other book besides the gospel that he wrote john 15
verse 26 says but when the comforter has come whom i will send unto you from the father even
the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the father he shall testify of me and ye also shall
bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning so the holy spirit you know he is
sent to us but obviously jesus christ is the one that sent him and there's a big there's a big
ministry involved with the holy spirit but he's kind of like it's kind of like he's a silent
partner that doesn't you know he doesn't speak of himself he glorifies jesus because what is
the name that we're given or by we must be saved it's the name of jesus they don't call on the
holy spirit to be saved you call upon the name of jesus to be saved that's what we teach because
that's what the bible says you know you don't you'll see people and you know sometimes when
people are someone in there new they'll have them call on god the father to be saved and i'm not
saying that you know obviously people can make mistakes but what is the name that we're that
we're saved by it's jesus the bible is super clear about that in the new testament so now look at
back in our text in revelation one five it says and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness
and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us
and washed us from our sins in his own blood so jesus christ he you know he's the one that's
worthy of all of our honor and praise and it says right here that he's the first begotten of the
dead and he's the prince of the kings of the earth all these kings think that they're so high and
mighty but he's the prince of all of them any king that's ever been in existence that ever will
exist and he just allows them to call themselves kings but he really is the prince of the kings of
the earth and and the bible says that he washed us from our sins in his own blood so john mccArthur
can go to hell oh wait he's already there so verse six and hath made us kings and priests unto god
and his father to him be glory and dominion forever and ever so here we have the passage
where it says that he's made us kings and priests unto god his father and you're like well i don't
feel like i don't have a funny outfit um i don't uh i don't have a crown yeah i mean we don't now
but i i don't know what that's maybe we never will um well the bible says that we'll get crowns and
we'll cast them back we'll give them back to jesus or whatever but um you know the bible
says we will receive crowns but the bible says we will rule and reign with christ for a thousand
years but it also says that we'll be with him forever so uh you know we really get a lot of
honor and we don't really have to do a lot for it we just have to believe in jesus and get saved
and then we kind of get the royal treatment maybe not now but he still treats us right here i mean
there's a lot of things that we deserve that we don't get there's a lot of bad that we deserve
that we don't get there's a lot of evil that we deserve that we don't get because god is merciful
to us you know if we really just take account of the what kind of people we really are um you know
we deserve a lot worse but he's long suffering to us and merciful and he's just not right he just
doesn't want to just wipe us out for everything we do and i'm glad because he could if he wanted to
but he doesn't do that but he gives us great honor i mean it's an honor to be called a priest or a
king of god isn't it i think it's a great honor and this concept is first laid out in the book
of exodus i won't have you turn there for a second time like i said but exodus 9 5 um i'll just have
you guys turn to turn to first peter 2 i'm going to read exodus 19 5 it says now therefore if you
obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then he shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
people for all the earth is mine who's who the earth belonged to god and he shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests and an holy nation these are the words which thou shall speak unto the children
of israel and so even back in the old testament he was saying that um if they would have you know
kept the covenant which they didn't but there'll be a time when the ones that were faithful and
saved will be able to be with us they're they're not second-class citizens either you know they
were of the natural tree right so first peter chapter two verse five says he also has lively
stones are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to god by jesus christ so the type of priest that we are we don't come up and bring
animals and have to chop them up and barbecue them and make sure that we cut this out and cut
that out and slaughtering animals is hard work and especially the kind of animals that they were
slaughtering i mean they're doing when it says that they're doing all these thousands of burnt
offerings in one day do you know how much work that that would be the reason why they had to have
so many levites to help is because that's a lot of work i mean that's a lot of guts to get rid of
it's a lot of skin to get rid of i mean they probably had some pretty nice clothes out of all
that stuff but nice they probably didn't go without shoes you know um and they probably had to make
the whole cow for people's feet like mine but uh you know they but it's hard work and obviously
it's hard to be spiritual sometimes too and it's a it's a little bit different but aren't aren't you
glad that you he doesn't ask us to do these kind of sacrifices um you know they could the house of
israel couldn't keep that that covenant but it's a little easier for us to be spiritual as long as
we're walking in the spirit you know it's easier to be a priest in the new testament than it is in
the old testament i'll say that and it says we're supposed to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to god by jesus christ because he's the high priest right verse nine says but you're a chosen
generation a royal priesthood see we're not we're a priesthood of kings it's not just a priesthood
but it's a royal priesthood a holy priesthood and holy nation a peculiar people they should show
forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light turn to romans
12 romans 12 so i mean there's people that say well this is just kind of figurative you know we're
not really priests we're not really kings well i mean why would the bible talk about it so much
if we weren't i think we are but i don't i just don't think that we have to wear special funny
clothes you don't have to wear like wizard outfits and stuff and that's cool because
cosplay has its place but like i wouldn't want to have to dress like that every day you know what
i mean so it kind of get old you know wearing the same priestly outfit every day i'm not saying it
was wrong or anything because god put it in place but just for us to always have to wear something
like that would be it'd get old so but those things represented christ obviously um let's see
romans 12 one says i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service so are we
supposed to serve god that's what the bible says it's reasonable too it's like it's not like he's
asking an unreasonable request well he saved us and he he does kind of expect us to present our
bodies as a living sacrifice and you know it's not necessarily it's just talking about in general
but you know sacrifice in what way well by serving him by working for him you know and if
necessary even dying for him it says and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
god so not only does he expect us to reasonably serve him but also that we're not conformed to
this world but we're transformed by the renewing of our mind how we do that well we read the bible
and apply those things to our life and then it says that you may prove what is good acceptable
and perfect as far as the will of god goes and those things are easy to do like what's good
what's not i mean the bible kind of tells us what is and what isn't so and the gray there's gray
areas in between right and i mean we know what god finds acceptable and what he doesn't it's
not really that hard revelation one seven it says behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall
see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him
even so amen so here's the rapture verse and it says that he cometh with clouds he comes with clouds
so there's no doubt that when you know and it doesn't say that nobody that no i see him what's the pre-trib
belief that jesus is going to come when nobody's expecting it and nobody's going to see him that's
what the pre-tribbers say where does this happen because this is the revelation this is isn't this
telling us when jesus is going to come back i mean don't you think that it would tell us that jesus
is going to come back in secret where's the verse that says that i would like to see that verse but
you know when someone doesn't have a plain verse for what they believe then their it's a it's a
their their doctrine is just a house of lies it's just not true because you should have a very
powerful scripture and some scriptures that you can build around that to prove what you believe
instead they have all these charts that are like the vietnam dog or whatever the you know the
vietnam dog meme where its eyes are going two different ways and all these like bombs are
blowing up that's kind of what i feel like when i look at those those end times charts you know
it's like what is this you know and uh yeah so uh if it doesn't make sense then then it's not
sensible you know it's just it's just not something that you should hold to and if this is the first
part that it talks about jesus coming back why isn't he talking about a secret rapture before
this in in the book here we're just we're just seven verses in and he and he talks about him
coming back jesus and matthew chapter 24 the disciples asked him you know when shall these
things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming they didn't say coming's oral they said
what shall be the sign of thy coming and then he tells them all the signs that are going to
happen you know he's like these are the beginnings of sorrows but then he says specifically when you
see uh the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet you know that's when you run
for the hills basically i'm paraphrasing obviously big time but that's when you should run that's
when that's when things are going to get so bad they're going to be worse than anything anybody's
ever seen and that's when you know that you're in the great tribulation that's the sign that's the
next thing that we're going to know for sure that we're in the end we're in the final stretch of
everything i think we'll probably have a pretty good clue when the temple starts getting built
i think that we'll know a little bit by then that it's getting close but we know for sure once the
abomination of desolation is set up you know and you know the bible talks about you know who so
readeth let him understand you know and maybe there's some people that are still skeptical at
that time there'll be people like us being i told you you know look at the abomination of desolation
not to get set up run you know like people won't be believing us and then all of a sudden you know
those pre-tribbers are still trying to believe that you know we're not there yet or whatever
it's like look at the bible dummy stop believing this stupid idiotic doctrine but you know at that
point we'll already be in a tribulation time but the great tribulation is going to be the worst
tribulation that we've ever gone through as as christians ever and there's been some pretty bad
persecutions over the years in different countries i mean in some countries you're
you're just murdered for being for even saying you're a christian and obviously a lot of those
things have been lost in history but there's some things that are written in history of great
persecutions that have happened by the catholic church those things made it in history books
by the waldensians and you know the paulicians and some other groups out there that were murdered
because they dared to baptize their children after they got saved and they didn't baptize
them when they were babies and that was kind of their way of marking people it's like well
they had a new baby up there in the mountains last week and i haven't seen him for the baptism
and then they just send their troops up there and just kill them because that was their way
of knowing that they you know weren't catholic or whatever i'm sure you know just like anything
rumors fly but see how it says that every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him
who are those people jews right but it's like you know people will take this and go oh it was the
actual jews that pierced him no but anybody like it's like jesus put all the the dead prophets on
the generation that he was speaking to and from the from abel to zechariah the son of barakaes
that was killed at the altar he put all that on that generation that was there so when it says
they also which pierced him anybody that believes that that religion and is into that you know the
the religion of the pharisees they're just like those people they're the sons of those people
just like he was saying that you're the sons of the people that killed the prophets to the people
that he was in the generation with right so to say that these people they also which pierced him
he's talking about the same people of the same religion and who are they they're the jews
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him why you know they're not wailing because
they're happy that he's coming back they're wailing because they know their time's up it's
time to get you know murked basically i guess that's one of the terms that people use these
days i don't know nuked i say nuked or murked or smoked or whatever but they're not they're
not happy to see him coming they're scared they're terrified but so if the bible says that every eye
shall see him but the preachers say nobody will see him which which one's right i'll take the
bible you know 1000 alex not alex you know not alex k but alex trebek but he's i think he died but
anyway uh but every eye shall see him you're like well how's that possible well i mean we
have a lot there's a lot of technology out there isn't there i mean when jesus comes back they're
gonna be able to point some cameras up there right i mean i don't know somehow we're gonna see him
though i believe what the bible says in act six or act one i don't have time to go through the
whole thing because i'm running out of time here but um when jesus went up to heaven you know after
he spoke and told them to go to the uttermost parts of the earth he said and when the when i
we had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up in a cloud received him out of their
sight and while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by
them in white apparel which also said he men of galli why stand he gazing up into heaven
this same jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as you have
seen him go into heaven so they're going to see him come in like manner and where did he leave from
he left from the mount of olives so where is he going to come back to he's going to come back to
the mount of olives going to come back in like manner they're going to they saw him go up they're
going to see him come back down how are the apostles going to see that well i'll give you
a little clue they're going to rise up in the resurrection and they're going to see jesus coming
in the clouds and those people that pierced him you know the the Pharisees around there will see
him too but they're also i'm sure there'll be jews that see him you know there's jews over there
where's it going to take place in jerusalem but you know the pre-tribbers do have a verse
that really does kind of crush us turn to revelation four verse one revelation four verse one well you
don't believe me all right i'm joking but it doesn't really crush us look at revelation four
this is there this is what they hang their hat on this is what they what this if you ask them to show
you a verse a lot of times now they just really won't because people are so well versed and what
you know what we believe is just pretty airtight but here's here's what here's what they'll show
people to say that the rapture the preacher rapture is true it says after this i i looked
and behold a door was open in heaven and the first voice which i heard was as it were a trumpet
talking with me which said come up hither and i will show thee things which must be hereafter
and immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven
and one sat at the throne there you go that just destroys everything that i just taught you
but doesn't revelation one come before revelation chapter four i don't know but to me that is not
a very clear scripture if that's the one that they're hanging their hat on you know a trumpet
blows it's like but the trumpet is talking it's as it were a trumpet talking to me it's not that an
actual trumpet blows so they really take some they like to say that we know we're baptists we take
you know the word of god at face value and what you know there's no symbolism but
there's a lot of symbolism in this verse and i'll show you things which must come hereafter
but how is this the rapture it's that's not jesus calling them calling them to the door that's the
guy that was talking to him before is not what it says and after i looked and behold the door was
open in heaven and the first voice which i heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me and that's
the dude that's the angel right and i will show the things which must come hereafter and immediately
i was in the spirit and held the throne was set in heaven so he he was the lone rapture person i
guess that's just ridiculous turn back to revelation 1 8 now the bible says that every eye will see him
and they that pierced him so i believe what the bible says and that verse that i just showed you
is not clear you know what what's clear about salvation john 3 16 that whosoever believed in
him should not perish but have everlasting life that's clear verily verily i say unto you he that
believed without me have everlasting life john 6 6 7 i think that's clear but you know what's not
clear that verse right there revelation 4 revolution 1 8 i am alpha and omega the beginning and the
ending saith the lord which is which was and which is the come the almighty is jesus god i mean he
that if you have a red letter edition he's saying that he's the alpha and omega the beginning the
ending and then john writes saith the lord which is which was which is the come the almighty
um the almighty i mean that's god god is almighty jesus is god almighty and then verse 9 i john who
also am your brother and companion in tribulation and the kingdom of pain and the impatience of
jesus christ was in the aisle that is called patmas for the word of god and for the testimony
of jesus christ and so he's he's banished to this island and and a lot of times in times past even
up to i was thinking of napoleon people would be banned and exiled to islands that they couldn't
really escape from and it's kind of similar to what happened to john and during this time
domination was like the emperor or the caesar or whatever and he was persecuting christians
and so he did uh historically he did you know send people to this island and there's also people
that wrote although it was after the time that john lived but it was still close enough to john
that and then there was like several people that wrote the same thing but there's nothing
surviving saying that he lived in or this happened in 66 ad or 78 or before 70 ad but all the accounts
historically say that john lived that he lived to be an old man and that the book of revelation
was written because you know during the time of domination during the end of his reign so
i'm not going to get into all the source materials that i found but
there's a church historian named eusebius and he lived let's see there's people that
domination reign between 80 81 and 96 ad frankly associated with intensifying hostility towards
christians tertulian early third century recounts that john was exiled for his testimony under
demission and in his writings called the prescription against heretics chapter 36
let's see i guess i'm not going to read all this but let's see eusebius in his ecclesiastical
history book three credits dominations rule with john's exile eusebius wrote in the early fourth
century drawing upon earlier sources like iranius iranius again against heresies book five chapter
30 in the late second century attested that john saw the revelation at the close of dominations
reign indicating a date near ad 95 and 96 the places john's present and places the john's
presence on patmos in alignment with dominations final years so i mean obviously that's not super
ironclad proof but there's also other people that uh you know clement of alexandria tertullian
and all these other guys so um history accounts for this uh later date but like i said people
want to people will say that it's even later than this it was just made up and added into the bible
and that it's much later that they put it in and then the people that want all this stuff to be
fulfilled before 90 ad the you know the preterist they want it to be for before 70 ad so that they
can you know have all their stuff be true also so anyway verse 10 says i was in the spirit on the
lord's day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet so was this the rapture too verse 10
this is the first this is the first rapture apparently now um but what i just want to say
about this is that you know he was on the lord's day and a lot of people um you know they'll say
that we changed the we changed the sabbath to sunday because the pope changed it to sunday
and that's why we're all going to burn in hell because we don't we don't observe the sabbath
anymore but the bible says we don't have to observe the sabbath anymore and john was in
in the spirit on the lord's day and so it kind of just changed over to the the day that jesus
resurrected on the first day of the week that's been historically why we have church on sunday the
first day of the week and that's why it's called the lord's day because he rose from the dead on
sunday and if the jews hate jesus and we don't have to keep the sabbath anymore why not just change it
to sunday just to stick it to them but there's no verse that says we have to you know have church
on the lord's day but it's interesting that it says that he was in the spirit on the lord's day
so it's probably a good thing to go to church on sunday right start your week off right verse 11
saying I am alpha and omega the first and the last and what thou seest write in a book
and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna unto Pergamos
unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea so again didn't write it to one church
because the universal church but each local church in Asia had its own personalized message
and its own angel it wasn't one angel going to all these different churches it wasn't just one
manuscript necessarily going to um I mean it might have been one manuscript going to every church but
they all did have their own personal messages so revelation 112 and I turned to see the voice
that spake with me and being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks so I seized the seven golden
candlesticks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks one like unto the son of man clothed
with the garment down to the foot and gird about the paps with a golden girdle so this is the term
one like unto the son of man this is something that Jesus liked to call himself while it was
like his favorite term that he would say the son of man he said it a lot and if you just look at
if you just look up the term in a search engine Ezekiel says it more than anybody else he says it
like more than a hundred times probably as refer you know God actually God refers to Ezekiel as the
son of man a lot but Daniel says in verse in chapter seven verse 13 he says I saw in the night
visions and behold one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient
of days and they brought him near before him so when it says in Daniel I saw in the night visions
behold one like the son of man came in the clouds of heaven and Jesus called himself that a lot he's
he's attaching himself onto that prophecy about him and in revelation one verse seven that's what
happens Jesus he behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him he's attaching himself to
that prophecy for a reason because he's connecting himself with that prophecy and so what does he see
he turns around he sees you know Jesus in a glorified state and he's seen this before he saw
it on the mount of transfiguration but not quite like this I don't think because he kind of freaks
out here and I would you know I would understand why it says his head and his hairs are white like
wool as white as snow and his eyes are as a flame of fire now this might be a little controversial
to say this but you know one time a long time ago before me and sherry were saved we were watching
this movie called malcolm x and it has denzel washington in it who's ever seen that anybody
you sinners no just kidding but anyway in that movie he explained like malcolm x you know he's
playing malcolm x and he's he's saying you know jesus was black because his hair was like wool
and like that kind of stuff can mess with people's mind they've never heard that stuff before
but what is it actually saying here it's not saying like i think that he's trying to malcolm
x is trying to say that his hair was like wool like you know black people's hair is like you know
really curly and you know whatever and it kind of looks like wool you know but but this is talking
about his head and his hairs were white like wool i mean i guess you know there's i've seen some
black people's pretty white hair you know when they're really old but it says as white as snow
it's not explaining that his hair that his hair was like a black person's hair as in
it's kinky like that or whatever it's saying that his hair was white that's all it's saying
so when people say blah jesus was black it's like no he was that's not what it's saying though so
you can claim he was black all you want but that's not what it says it says that his head and his
hairs were white like wool i'm not saying he was white either but i'm just saying it says his head
was white doesn't isn't that what it says and his hair was and his hairs were white like wool so he
just had really white hair when he saw him and his eyes were like a flame of fire i've never seen
black people with eyes with flames of fire before so obviously he's in a glorified state where he
just looks different he's in his glorified state he looks different it says his feet were like
undefined brass i mean and they'll take that kind and say see he's black because his feet were like
brass whatever it's like no that's not what it's saying so i i'm sure he had dark skin he walked
around in the sun all the time and he was a jew and he lived in the desert so yeah i'm sure he was
dark but to say he was just black or whatever i mean these people that are these black hebrew
israelites are out of their minds so i'm not saying he was white with blonde hair and blue eyes
either you know obviously his hairs were or his eyes realized the flame of fire i i don't know
anybody that has that color of eyes so unless you put bleach in them or something but anyway
and it says his voice is the sound of many waters so it just explained to us that he is different
looking than any time ever time he saw him and he's scary to john because look it says and he had
in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword and his
countenance was like the sun shineth in its strength so i mean if you ever looked in the sun
for more than like a few seconds well don't stare into the sun by the way it'll make you go blind
but uh don't do that but he's just saying that it's as he was his countenance was as the sun
sun shineth in its strength when i saw him i felt his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon
me saying fear not i am the first and the last i am he that liveth and was dead and behold i am
alive forevermore amen and have the keys of hell and of death write these things that thou has seen
and the things which which are the things which shall be hereafter so this is the purpose of the
book write the things which thou has seen he's showing them visions and the things which are and
the things which shall be hereafter so what are the things that are the state of those churches
that he has to write the letters to he's going to give them the state of the union this is how
your church your church sucks or you suck or whatever he's going to say to them he's going
to give them a report card and then the things which shall be hereafter so he's going to show
them the bible prophecy that's going to happen and try and john's going to try to explain it to us in
the best of his words and it says the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand
and the seven golden candlesticks the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches
and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches so he unlocks the mystery for
us right here he interprets what he was saying so it's not a mystery anymore that's why it's the
book of revelation he's explaining to us what these things mean it seems mysterious until he
does in the same chapter not too far after he first says it he says let me say it once again
and we'll be done the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven
golden candlesticks the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and i don't believe that
they're angelic beings i believe that they're the pastors of the church they're the messengers that
bring forth the message of the word of god that's what i believe because why would you write letters
to angels that don't interact with people all the time are they going to read those letters in the
church who's going to read those letters in the church are angelic beings going to get up have
you ever seen that happen in church because i have it you're like well you don't know what happened
back then i what happens when when angels even appear in front of people in the bible every what
happened when jesus appeared in front of them you know they just fall over like they're dead they're
afraid so i don't i believe this is talking about messengers the angels of the churches all the
pastors i believe of these churches and it says the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches
and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest all the seven churches so the spirit of god is in the
churches and and later on it says that jesus is in the midst of these churches also so if it's a
true church jesus is going to be in the midst of it and he knows what's going on and he is the
one that is the head of the church so that is revelation chapter one let's pray lord we thank
you so much for a wonderful day in church pray that you just be with us and bless us and help us to
put you first this week and pray that you'd help us to be here on thursday we pray for those that
are sick and not able to make it today pray that you bless them help them to get healthy and be
back in church as soon as possible i pray you'd help us to be faithful in jesus name we pray amen