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Revelation chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Revelation chapter one, let us pray.
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  We thank you, Lord, for today. We thank you, God, for all the
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  many blessings that you've already poured out on us.
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  Lord, we thank you for your scripture.
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  Lord, we're asking that you'll show up and show off Show out.
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  You're so amazing. God, we love you.
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  We love everything about you. And it's in your son's holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse 1, the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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  which God gave unto him to show unto His servants things which
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  must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it by
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  his Angel unto his servant John. So the revelation is just the
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  revealing friends, and the whole Book of Revelation points to
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  Jesus Christ, and He tells us here that they must shortly come
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  to pass. And you can see that God gave it
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  to Jesus, and Jesus gave it to the Angel.
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  And the Angel came to John while he was on the island of Patmos.
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  And this is the apostle John who got to walk with Jesus Christ in
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  his earthly ministry for three years, the beloved 2 who bore
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  record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ
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  and of all the things that he saw.
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  So aren't we eternally blessed and grateful that John was there
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  on the island of Patmos and actually had the time to sit and
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  to pin down the revelation that Jesus Christ gave to him.
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  Verse 3 Blessed is he that reads they that hear the words of this
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  prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the
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  time is at hand. So he's already told us it was
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  shortly going to come. Then he tells us here that the
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  time is at hand, and if it was at hand and short back then and
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  how much more is it today? And he says that we're going to
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  be blessed friends for reading this and for hearing this.
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  What an amazing promise from God.
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  And we need to keep the things that are in it.
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  We don't need to just read this from an allegorical point of
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  view or some kind of symbolism. We need to actually read it and
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  then apply it to our lives. First for John to the seven
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  churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you, and peace
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  from him which is and which was and which is to come, and from
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  the seven spirits which are before his throne.
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  So here the seven churches. This is the complete church.
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  This is church history from Peter whenever he said, I will
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  build my church all the way from the primitive church all the way
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  to the modern Church of today, friends, and for all time's
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  sake. This is the complete church
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  which is the seven that is referenced.
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  And then you see here these seven spirits of God before the
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  throne. This is a reference to Isaiah
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  Chapter 11 verse 2 where he talks about all the different
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  attributes of God. 5:00 And from Jesus Christ, who is the
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  faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead, and the
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  Prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us
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  and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
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  So you can see here that Jesus is the faithful witness.
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  He was faithful unto his Father to come and to put on humanity,
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  and to shed His innocent blood for the remission of all of the
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  sins of the earth, friends. And if anybody will come to
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  Jesus and believe that He is the Son of God and that God raised
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  him from the dead, they will be saved and they'll be washed in
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  His blood. And whenever they stand before
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  God one day, God will not see their sins.
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  They will only see the blood of Jesus Christ covering them, and
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  He is the Prince of the kings of the earth.
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  He is supreme. There is no one higher.
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  He is the name that is above all names, and He's the first
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  begotten of the dead. So you need to understand that
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  Jesus Christ took humanity into heaven, into God's presence.
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  Friends, you need to understand that He is the first begotten in
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  the sense that He is God that put on mankind.
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  He's fully man and fully God 6 and has made us kings and
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  priests unto God and his Father. To Him be glory and dominion
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  forever and ever. So we are a royal priesthood,
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  and Jesus Christ himself said that the least in the Kingdom of
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  heaven is greater than John the Baptist and all the prophets of
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  old, all those born of woman. So we are actually the royal
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  priesthood. What an amazing thought that we
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  will rule and reign with him for 1000 years. 7 Behold, he comes
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  with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which
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  pierced him, and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail
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  because of him, Even so. Amen.
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  So this is the second coming of Christ, friends.
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  The whole earth will see him as he returns.
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  It will not be some secret friends.
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  They will see just as lightning strikes and everyone can see it.
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  That is how it will be with the coming, the second coming of the
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  Son of Man, and we say yes and Amen to it.
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  Eight. I am the Alpha, the Omega, the
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  beginning and the ending, says the Lord, which is and which was
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  and which is to come, the Almighty.
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  He's the Ancient of Days, friends, He is omnipotent, He is
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  our everything. He's the creator of everything
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  seen and unseen friends. He's the beginning and the end
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  and He lives outside of time. 9 by John, who also am your
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  brother and companion and tribulation and in the Kingdom
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  and patience of Jesus Christ was in the Isle that is called
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  Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus
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  Christ. What the enemy meant for evil,
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  God used for good. And as John was sentenced to
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  hard labor on the island of Patmos in the quarry, he had the
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  time and he had the vision, and he sat and he pinned down these
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  eternal inspired words that we are blessed by ten.
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  I was in the Spirit on the Lords day, and I heard behind me a
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  great voices of a trumpet. So here he's meditating upon
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  God's Word, and then Jesus Christ shows up 11 saying I am
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  Alpha and Omega, the first, the last.
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  And what you see, write in a book and send it to the seven
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  churches which are in Asia under Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamus
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  and Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
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  So you need to understand that Paul the Apostle wrote to seven
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  churches, and here John is told to write to seven churches and
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  the seven is the complete number.
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  Friends, it's all of church history wrapped up in that #712
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  And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me and being
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  turned, I saw 7 golden candlesticks.
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  So these are the lamp stands that the light sits upon.
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  The lamp stands themselves don't actually house the light, they
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  just hold it to friends. 13 And in the midst of the seven
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  candlesticks, one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with the
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  garment down to his foot, and girt about the paps with the
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  golden girdle. So here you can see Jesus Christ
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  clothed in the royal priest, the high priest garments that goes
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  all the way down to his feet, and you can see this sash that
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  is made of gold about his breast.
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  What an amazing thought. 14 His head and his hairs were white,
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  like wool, as white as snow. In his eyes were his flame of
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  fire. So here you can see the Ancient
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  of Days. This is what Jesus looks like.
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  Can you see him, friends? He has the long robe down to his
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  feet, the golden sash around his chest, his hair.
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  It signifies the wisdom of God. It signifies the radiance that
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  John got to see on the Mount of Transfiguration.
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  It was white like wool, bleached out.
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  And then his eyes like fire. These piercing eyes of judgment,
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  friends. 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if burned in
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  a furnace. And his voice, the sound of many
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  waters, so his feet were hardened as if through the
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  refiners fire. He'd already went through
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  everything that God wanted him to for the remission of sins for
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  all of humanity, friends. And then you can see that his
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  voice is like the sound of the many rushing waters.
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  He opens His voice and things are created.
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  He is the creator of everything seen and unseen. 16 And he had
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  in his right hand seven stars, and that of his mouth went a
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  sharp 2 edged sword, And his countenance was as the sun
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  shines in his strength. So you can see here that He had
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  the churches in his hands, the leaders of the churches in his
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  hands, friends. And then you can see that he's
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  shining like the sun. You cannot even look upon the
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  sun. And then you see this two edged
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  sword coming out of his mouth. And that is how he will
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  annihilate his foes and put them under his feet as a footstool.
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  17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid
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  his right hand upon me, saying to me, fear not, I am the 1st
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  and the last. So you can see that he lives
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  outside of time. He's the alpha, he's the Omega.
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  He tells John, don't be a afraid it is.
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  I Can you imagine John the disciple?
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  He's walking with Jesus for three years, getting to know
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  him. He sees him up on the cross,
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  being nailed to it like a criminal and breathing out his
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  last. And then he sees him in his
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  resurrected body as he appears to many before he ascends to the
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  right hand of God. And now John is on the island of
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  Patmos and he sees Jesus as he truly is.
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  He is, I am. He is everything.
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  He is the only uncreated. This is what Jesus looks like.
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  18 I am he that lives and was dead, and behold, I am alive
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  forevermore. Amen.
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  And I have the keys of hell and of death.
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  That's what Jesus did on silent Saturdays.
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  He went down and he preached to the spirits, and he snatched the
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  keys, and he holds them in his hand.
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  And he was alive. And then they murdered him, and
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  then he was resurrected. And he, he is humanity entering
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  into heaven. He is the first.
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  He is all God and all man. 19 Write the things which you have
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  seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be
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  hereafter. This is the breakdown of the
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  whole entire Book of Revelation, friends.
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  John was told to write the things down that he had seen,
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  the things that were happening and the things that which will
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  happen. And we'll end on 20 the mystery
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  of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven
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  golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels
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  of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which you saw
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  are the seven churches. So Jesus Christ interprets the
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  vision for John because he knows that we are slow to understand.
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  The candlesticks are just the churches, and then the stars are
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  the leaders of those churches, the pastors of those churches.
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  They are the messengers. And what an amazing book.
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  What an amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  And we will be blessed by listening to this and by reading
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  this and by teaching this. What an amazing thought.
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  Revelation is not some mystery for us just to put on a shelf
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  that's not meant to be understood.
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  It is the revealing. Friends, it's easy.
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  We read it literally, we believe it earnestly, and we approach it
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  honestly. This should be an exciting time.
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  This is not a confusing time. This is.
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  God is not the author of confusion, friends.
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  He gave it to us for us to read it.
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  And you don't have to pretend as if you understand it all,
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  friends, we just read it and believe it and that settles it.
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  I hope you've been blessed by it.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.