Revelation: Part 17

Instead of having any sympathy for this prophets, it says they declare a kind of a satanic Christmas. It says the whole world is going to rejoice over the death of these prophets and they’re going to let their bodies lie in the streets. And it says the whole world will see them. Television and satellite facilitated that, and the Lord knew that would come.

And that after three days, they’re going to be raised up in front of the whole world. And caught up to heaven. And the world is going to see this. So you see God’s showing us that all of these people who reject his constant efforts of grace to them deserve everything they’re getting.

And this – when the prophets are raised and taken up, it marks the exact middle of the seven years, the exact three and a half year point. And in essence, this – we know what this is. God is removing his two official ambassadors. Now, when a country removes the ambassadors, what does that mean?

Yeah. Well, that’s exactly what happens then. Because it’s at this point that the Roman Antichrist is going to sit in the temple of God and declare himself to be God after these prophets are raised. Now, that’s the point of chapter 11.

We’ll go into great detail when we get there. All right. Now. The next vignette is chapter 12.

Chapter 12 is about Israel and the mistraphy of antisemitism, and it adds one of the major reasons why God is judging the Christ-rejecting world. Because of the way they had mistreated the nation that he created when all nations were going away from God and deliberately trying to push the knowledge of God out of their memory. That’s why he chose Abraham, that’s why he created the nation of Israel so that he could deposit in this nation his written revelation. They would preserve it, they will demonstrate by their obedience to God that the God blesses them and that’s why that they should know that this must be the true God and how they should act.

And when they didn’t obey him, he taught by that, too, because he judged them. But he never let go of them because he created them to, through them, bring all the other nations to him. Now, Israel didn’t always understand that mission, but nevertheless, that’s why they were created. And he also created them so that through the physical race of the Israelites, the Savior of the world could be born.

And he was through Abraham, through judah, through the sons of David. All right. So I’ll label chapter 12 vignette the mystery of antisemitism. Now, chapter 13’s another vignette.

See, I’m trying to show you what these vignettes do and how they fit in the midst of the chapters that take you chronologically through that seven years. All right. Chapter 13. This is a prophetic biography of the careers of the Roman Antichrist and the false prophet.

There are two of them. These are two of the main characters of this period. And so it gives you a prophetic biography of these two people. And it shows what they’ll be like, what they will do, and so forth.

And this is an indispensable chapter. Then chapter 14. Chapter 14 is another vignette of the ultimate victory of the 144,000, and Christ’s special connection to them. Because it shows them at the end of the Tribulation all standing on mount Zion with Jesus.

And it shows that among other things, they’re on the earth. And it shows that miraculously, Jesus is going to protect them from being killed. They’ll suffer. But none of the 144th will die during all of that terrifying stuff that’s going to happen in the seven-year Tribulation.

And I believe it’s about these servants, the 144,000 that Matthew 25 is written where it says, I was in prison and you didn’t visit me. I was hungry and you didn’t give me food, and so forth. And it says, in as much as you didn’t do it for even one of these my brothers. He calls them special.

My brothers. You didn’t do it to me. And he shows that would be the sign of whether somebody was an unbeliever, by how they treat this 144,000 people. And the sign that you’re a believer, because during those days, you’ll be risking your life to help them by the edict of the Antichrist, he says, enter the kingdom which was prepared for you before the foundation of the earth for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was in prison, you visited me, I was sick and you helped me.

And so forth. So this talks about the ultimate victory that comes to them. And it shows their work through the whole seven years. And it shows the guilt and the worthiness of judgment again.

And it stresses this because of the rejection of these witnesses by the world. All right. Is this helpful to you? Because it took me years to find all this out.

Chapter 15 is another vignette. This chapter talks about the victory and the martyrs who died for their faith during the Tribulation. See, most of the people who believe in Jesus during the Tribulation are going to die. They’re going to be martyred.

And so if it’s hard for you to believe in Jesus now, it’ll be much harder if you wait until after the Rapture in the year of the Tribulation. But this teaches about the God’s grace. And at the end of chapter 15, it shows something that if you’re on the earth should be the most frightening thing you could ever learn. It shows that God’s grace is finally exhausted.

Because from this point on, there’s no more grace. And this opens the way to chapter 16, which carries this forward chronologically. Chapter 16 shows the greatest judgments that will ever hit this earth. It is – when we go through that, I’m going to show you some things that are there that will show you I don’t even want to be close to the planet earth.

It’s terrifying what’s going to happen. And then chapter 16 shows that. And then we have two more vignettes. Chapter 17, which explains the mystery of Babylon.

And it shows the religious aspect in chapter 17 of the Antichrist system. It shows the mystery of Babylon started a long time ago and how it will reach the zenith power under the Antichrist. Then we go to chapter 18. This is the explanation of the mystery of Babylon in the economic aspect.

Because it shows that the Antichrist will have a very special world-dominating economics. And it shows how they’ll – I don’t want to give you too much because we’re going to study that. And then that’s the last of these vignettes that explained different movements and different people and so forth. Now, chapter 20 shows what will happen immediately after the Lord comes back and the Tribulation’s finished, and it introduces the kingdom that he will found on earth.

But the kingdom was promised all through the Old Testament. The only thing that wasn’t known in the Old Testament is how long the kingdom would last that the Messiah would reign over on the earth. Revelation 20 says it’s going to last a thousand years. In Matthew 24:15, Jesus says this.

He says, when you see the Abomination of Desolation, literally it means the abomination that causes desolation, stand in the holy place – that’s in the temple – that he that is on the rooftop not even return to his house to get his cloak or he is in the field and not go back. Says flee immediately to the mountains for then there shall be a Tribulation such as it’s never been before nor ever shall be again. And unless those days are cut short, no one would be left alive. All right.

Now, the abomination that causes desolation is that is a very special Hebrew word or Hebrew concept. It means to desecrate the holy of holies of the temple. Antioch epiphanies in 165 B.C. Did the first thing that was called an Abomination of Desolation, and that is he took a pig and slew it in the holy of holies and put pig’s blood all over the holy of holies.

And the Romans did it by putting a statue of jupiter in what was left. Not much left of the ruins of the temple. But it always means something that is an utter desecration of the temple. Well, we know what that will be.

2 Thessalonians 2 says that they – the man of lawlessness will take his seat in the temple of God and declare himself to be God. And so I started putting things together. That happens, that is the abomination that causes desolation. It happens in the exact middle of the Tribulation, and that’s when war starts.

And Ezekiel 38 tells us that that war will begin by the attack of a muslim confederation against Jerusalem and the Russians will come in with them, okay. And I thought for a moment, I said, of course. Who is the main religion, which is the main religion, that would never accept a man as God? Can you imagine a muslim accepting a man as allah?

They’re the ones that have the strongest . Apparently, when this man they thought was the mad I, the , declares himself to be God, they realized they’d been hoodwinked. And that’s why they attack. And I said, I should have known that.

Now, something else. Satan is a master of counterfeit. And then I began to put something else together that what the fervently believes and has dedicated his life to is to prepare the way for this mysterious 12 imaum who is going to return and become the mad ithat will subject the world to islam. And he believes that he will come at the time that there will be this great war of Armageddon.

He even uses the term, Armageddon. And that is during that war that he will subject, though he says most of the population of the earth will be killed and at the end, this modiwill bring all men into peace and glory by subjecting tell me to Israel. Okay. And then I nearly blew off my chair when I heard him say, and I’ve read it, too, that the scholars of islam believe that this 12th imaum is the rider on the white horse in Revelation 6:1-2.

Now, that sets up Satan, Satan’s counterfeit, and it sets up a whole system. Now, the muslims have pulled prophecy. They pull things out of the old and the New Testament in Iran. But this system of teaching here on this prophecy has been pulled right out of the book of Revelation.

And typical of people who don’t know Christ as Savior and don’t have the Holy Spirit in him, they jerked it out of context. Look at Revelation 6:1-2. We’re not going to have time to do a whole lot of this. But we will at least get into this and I’ll give you a briefing.

Chapter 6, verse 1: then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “go.” You see this Greek word can either mean come or go. He didn’t say come. He said, go.

And that’s true of all of these. It says, and I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering, and to conquer. First of all, the best thing – best tool to have in interpreting the Bible is a sanctified curiosity. Now, do you notice that it says, he goes forth to conquer, and it has a bow, but no arrows.

Why is that? And he’s given a crown. You see, the first seal that’s opened covers from the very start of the Tribulation to the three and a half year point. So the first seal actually covers more space of time than any of the other judgments.

And I’ll show you why absolutely as we progress. Because, you see, there has to be a pseudo peace brought in by this Antichrist in the first three and a half years. That’s how he wins people over to him and he gets them to praise him and he gets them to say, no one can make war with him, he’s brought peace. And that’s how he brings the whole world under his control.

So he goes forth. This is – there’s some christian theologians who say, this is Jesus. Couldn’t be. He goes forth to conquer.

And the bow without the arrow means he uses the threat of war but not war itself. He uses the threat. And he’s given a crown because God is the one who gives him, who lets him become this great ruler. He lets Satan do his best.

This is Satan’s mass. This is going to be Satan’s masterpiece. We’ll see that in Revelation 13 and Daniel 8:24 and following. This guy, he’s no ordinary person.

There has never been on this earth the exception of Jesus, a man that will have the kind of powers this man will have. And we know that several times, and much is said about this person, and every time it says, there was given him a great mouth with which he would charm the people. In other words, he’s going to be a mesmerizing speaker. And everything, every passage about him emphasizes he will be someone who is electrifying as a speaker.

And that’s why, I’ve often sat, I don’t know german, but I’ve often sat and listened to the speeches of adolf hitler and watched in the crowd. He mesmerized the germans. He absolutely mesmerized them. Well, he will be an amateur compared to this one.

Now, it also says that he goes and he goes forth to conquer. He goes – he went out conquering and to conquer. So he is just being one success after another. And he keeps going.

And this will be rapid. So all of these seals are a judgment. So how is this a judgment? I think this is the worst judgment of them all.

This judgment is people falling under the spell of a man who’s indwelt by Satan himself. To me that’s worse than all of it. Both the sunnis and the shiites believe in the Second Coming of the 12th imaum. The sunnis have a little different version of that prophecy.

The shiites are the most fervent in their belief in this prophecy. And they believe, and this is where they get this idea that this imaum is going to come in the midst of this great war and he’s going to absolutely all of those who stand against the way of allah. They get this by pulling out of context chapter 19. Turn with me to chapter 19, book of Revelation.

Verse 11. And behold I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called faithful and true; and righteousness he judges and wages war. See, that fits right down the muslim alley right there. His eyes are as a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name written on him which no one knows except himself.

He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and his name is called the Word of God. Now, they should have connected this with John 1, but they didn’t. They kind of skip over that. They say, and the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following him on white horses.

And from his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it he may strike down the nations; and he will rule them with a rod of iron; and he treads the win press of the fierce wrath of God, the almighty. And on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written, “king of kings, and Lord of lords.” They say, and this is in their prophecy, this person is the same person that’s John 6 Revelation 6:1-2. And this is why they have cooked up this whole prophecy that they firmly believe is at the modi, which is the arab muslim word for Messiah, their Messiah is the one that comes conquering and to conquer, and then he leads the armies of islam to completely dominate the world.

He slays those who will not submit to allah and he sets up a kingdom of righteousness and peace. So it’s convenient, they switched things around and don’t pay much attention to things that they don’t want to look at. But if they looked at it really closely, they would see this person has to be Jesus whom they say was just a prophet and he was inferior to mohammed. But they don’t have to have all the details.

Blessed are your ears what they’re hearing, blessed are your eyes what you’re seeing. Not me, but what God has said and what the spirit of God is saying to you. We are very near this time. We’re very, very near.

And I hope really there because I know some things that are coming and I won’t be here. Father, I thank you, in Jesus’ name, for all that you’ve done. Thank you for your word. I pray that you’ll make this a blessing, this teaching a blessing to everyone who’s here.

And I pray, dear Lord, that not one in Jesus’ name. Amen. God bless you.

If you have the guts to be a real revolutionary, come forward right now and accept Jesus Christ as your real revolutionary, and he’ll make a revolutionary that will change lives.

As I prepared for this week’s program, I was again struck by the speed with which events are moving into the scenario the prophets predicted for the end times. I believe we’re there. People on the street are talking about what all of these things mean. Folks that wouldn’t darken the door of a Church or pick up a Bible are now very curious.

This may be our greatest opportunity, maybe even our last opportunity, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ before we’re silenced by political correctness. The message that God has given me is more important now than it’s ever been for the Church and for the nation.