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Revelation 6 (Lesson 3) - Aaron Cozort - March 01, 2026 · Admonition Podcast

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  Good morning.
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  We are continuing our study in the book of Revelation as we close out chapter 6 and we'll begin chapter 7.
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  Good to see everybody out this morning.
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  Let's begin with a word of prayer as we start our class.
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  Gracious Father in heaven, we are for the day that you've blessed us with, grateful for the opportunities that we have to serve you and to open your word and study what you would
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  have us to know and have us to learn from your word.
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  Help us as we open the pages of the book of Revelation that we might understand the things that you've placed there for us.
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  as you have told us that we can know them and that we should know them, that we should understand how you have worked in this world in the past, how you have judged nations, and
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  how you have always provided for your people.
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  And may we always glean from it the singular message that you are victorious.
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  Lord, we pray that you be with Christians throughout the world that are under threat of persecution, that are within war zones, that are struggling because of
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  difficulties that this world brings upon them.
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  And we also pray for those who are dealing with illness and injury and recovery from procedures.
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  Lord, we pray that you be with each and every one of them and may they be blessed in their efforts, in their works, and in their recovery that they might once again be able to
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  fulfill the work that you have for them in the kingdom to their desired ability.
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  Lord, we pray that you
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  be with us as we go throughout this day.
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  all that we say and do be in accordance with your will and right in your sight.
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  All this we pray and ask in Jesus' name, amen.
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  Just by way of review, oh visually speaking, so Book of Revelation is written to the seven churches of Asia Minor.
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  It is written in the first century by John.
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  John saw the vision as he was on the Isle of Patmos for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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  The indication most likely is that he was in exile on the island of Patmos.
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  When he turns around there in chapter one, having heard the voice, he sees one who by an artist's imagery uh looks kind of like this, white robe, uh golden band around the chest,
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  white face, white hair, all of the pictures of glory and holiness surrounded by seven golden lampstands, which were.
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  representative of the seven churches and holding in his hand the seven stars, which are the angels of the seven churches.
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  Then the chapters two and three, John writes these individual messages to all of the seven churches.
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  Chapter four opens and John is presented in the vision with an open door.
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  He goes through the door.
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  The text gives us the picture of that idea.
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  uh
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  enters the throne room of God where John describes the throne room of God.
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  He describes the one who is sitting on the throne, but only in his presence, not in his form.
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  He describes the sea of glass that surrounds the throne, the four living creatures that are before the throne, the 24 elders that are before the throne, and the multitudes that
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  are around the throne that we'll get some of that picture in uh a little bit.
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  Then he sees the elders.
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  They are
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  taking the crowns that they wear, which are the crowns of a victor, and they're constantly throwing them down before the throne, praising God and declaring God to be worthy of
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  praise for all that He has done.
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  They do that every time the four living creatures declare God to be worthy.
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  Then John sees an angel, and he sees one of these individuals there in the vision,
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  and they're searching for someone who's worthy to open the scroll.
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  They look through heaven and earth because John has seen the scroll in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne and it's sealed with seven seals and no one is found in
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  heaven, on earth, or under the earth that is alive or dead who can open the scroll.
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  And John begins to weep, but the angel comes and one of the elders or the angel, my memory fails me at the moment.
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  to do, one of the elders, one of the elders comes and tells John, don't worry, we found one who's worthy to open the scroll and it's the lamb, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the
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  one who was dead and is alive forevermore.
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  And so John sees the Messiah, he sees Christ and Christ goes and takes the scroll from the one who's sitting on the throne.
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  And again, there's a worship scene because the four and 20, the four, sorry, the four beasts and the four and 20 elders begin to praise the one.
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  who is worthy to take the scroll who is the lamb who was dead but he looks like he was slain but he's standing up and he's alive.
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  Now the lamb doesn't look like a regular lamb does he?
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  here even here in the picture.
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  What does the lamb have in the description in the book of Revelation?
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  Seven horns and seven eyes and what are we told that that is?
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  No, the seven spirits of God.
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  Remember, whenever we're told what something is, we don't have to guess what it is.
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  We don't have to surmise about what it is.
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  When we saw the lamp stand that was before, or the burning lamps that were before the throne of God in chapter four, we didn't have to guess what they were because the text
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  told us it's the seven spirits of God.
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  Seven just meaning perfection.
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  This is the perfect, perfect Spirit of God in His presence before the throne.
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  Then you see the Lamb, and again you see a representation of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
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  And again the picture is perfection.
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  What did Jesus say that the Spirit would do when He sent the Comforter?
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  He said, I have to go away and I'm gonna send the Comforter to you and He will guide you into what?
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  all truth, perfection, okay?
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  The Spirit functions on behalf of the Son, He functions on behalf of the Father in His role, He is not diminished in His deity, He is simply fulfilling His role the same way the
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  Messiah fulfilled His role when He came to earth to die for us.
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  So you see,
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  the Messiah connected directly to the Spirit in the work of the Spirit.
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  Okay, so then in chapter 6 he begins to open the scroll.
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  First thing that he sees, the white horse and the one who's riding on the horse is doing what?
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  winning or losing, conquering or being defeated?
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  Conquering and more conquering and more conquering.
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  Alright, he goes forth to conquer and to conquer.
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  And it's a picture of, white is always a picture of what in Revelation?
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  purity and holiness.
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  The one who's on the horse, if you go through the rest of the book, the singular person riding a singular horse, there's a multitude of righteous people on white horses later on
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  in the book, but the one who rides a horse that the forces of evil do battle against is the Messiah, okay?
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  So this time he's pictured as a Parthian warrior with a bow.
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  He's pictured as one of Rome's greatest enemies.
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  Then you see a red horse.
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  Then you see a black horse.
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  Then you see a pale horse.
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  You've got economic destruction and difficulties.
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  You've got war and persecutions and difficulties as result of that.
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  Then you've got death in the grave.
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  And then you've got saints who are under the altar who have died for the testimony of Jesus Christ and for His name crying out to God asking, long, oh Lord, are you going to
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  allow this to continue?
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  And everything in the rest of the book turns on that question.
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  Everything you see from this point forward turns on the question of how long?
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  Are you going to allow this to continue on?
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  So the next seal is open and the sun turns to darkness, the moon turns to blood, the skies roll up like a scroll, and the end of the world comes, right?
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  Nope.
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  Alright, chapter 6 verse 12.
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  And I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood, and the stars
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  of heaven fell to the earth as a fig that drops its late figs when it's shaken by a mighty wind.
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  Then the sky receded up as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
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  And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the
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  mountain.
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  and said to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.
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  as the picture is opened up in the sixth seal, you find every person of prominence, every person of power, every rich person, every merchant, every slave, everybody is looking at
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  the judgment coming out of the throne of God and they're saying, uh, I gotta get out of here.
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  I gotta go hide somewhere.
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  I gotta do anything I can to get away from the judgment that is coming.
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  Now, does that mean that there was a moment in time, there was a point in history where every king in every country, everywhere on the earth went and hid in a cave because the
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  sun had turned to darkness, the moon had turned to blood, and the sky rolled up?
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  Not in physical sense.
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  But when you have a world power...
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  crumble and fall.
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  Who is affected by it?
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  Everybody.
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  Now, the picture here, right, you want the physical, literal picture that this comes from, you go back to Exodus chapter seven through 12.
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  And was there darkness during the plagues?
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  Yeah.
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  So much so that people didn't even get up out of bed.
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  They couldn't, they could not see in their, they could not light a candle and get light.
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  Did things fall from the sky and burn up the ground during the plagues?
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  Did God send electrical storms that went across the earth?
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  Did God turn the water into blood?
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  All of these pictures were literal and physical in the fall of a world power in biblical history, and it was Egypt.
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  And what did God say all throughout the experience of sending the ten plagues?
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  He said, this is happening so that everyone, all nations might know that Jehovah is the one who rules.
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  That he is the Lord of lords, the King of kings, that he is the God in heaven.
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  That Ra...
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  that the gods of the Egyptians, that the gods that are made with idols, they do not rule.
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  And Pharaoh, who thought himself to be a god, did not rule.
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  So the prophets throughout the Old Testament borrowed the imagery from Egypt.
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  They borrowed the picture from Egypt when God judged a nation.
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  because it was God declaring not just that a nation had come to an end, but that a nation that had stood in direct rebellion against Him had come to an end, and that He was the one
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  doing it.
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  It wasn't a picture of how it would come to an end, i.e.
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  armies and
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  physical events and things that would bring it to a fall and economic structures that would crumble.
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  It wasn't a picture of that.
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  It was a picture of the fact God says, everything you see done, I'm doing it.
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  Now, there's a question at the end of chapter 6 which induces chapter 7.
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  for the great day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand?" Now that is an Old Testament picture.
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  That is an Old Testament question.
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  That is a question that is asked when God judges nations.
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  Who is going to be able to stand when God judges a nation?
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  Turn to Zephaniah chapter 1.
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  Zephaniah is one of those minor profit books that you turn too many pages and you skip right by it.
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  because I just did.
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  Zephaniah chapter 1.
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  Beginning verse 12, "'It shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men who are settled in complacency, who say in their heart, the Lord
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  will not do good, nor will he do evil.'" Their argument is God doesn't know, God can't act, God is impotent.
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  God can't do good or evil.
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  We get to have our way with this world.
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  Verse 13, Therefore their goods shall become booty, their houses a desolation.
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  They shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them.
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  They shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.
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  The great day of the Lord is near.
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  It is near and hastens quickly.
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  The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter.
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  There the mighty men shall cry out.
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  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of
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  trumpet and alarm."
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  against the forfeited cities and against the high towers.
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  I will bring distress upon men and they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord.
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  Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like refuse.
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  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's what?
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  Wrath.
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  But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make speedy riddance of all those who dwell in the land."
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  This is a picture.
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  It was a picture in Zephaniah's day.
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  It's a picture in Revelation's day.
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  It is a picture of God saying, I'm going to deal with this nation, and it doesn't matter how rich they are, it doesn't matter how much gold and so on, they can't buy their way out
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  of this.
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  You know, there's a phrase in American politics.
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  been around for a few generations.
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  oh comes to mind every time elections come around, especially presidential elections, and people start repeating the phrase, it's the economy, stupid.
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  That's what gets you elected or not.
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  It's the economy.
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  Guess what?
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  there's ever a day where God decides to judge America, the economy won't matter.
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  The economy might well be booming, but it won't matter.
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  God says, you'll build houses, you won't live and have at them.
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  You'll have the ability, you'll have the money to build a house, but you won't ever live in it.
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  But question, the question at the end of chapter 6, at the end of the sixth seal is, in that day, during that judgment, who will be able to stand in the day of the wrath of God?
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  John is not going to reveal anything that the Christians don't already know.
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  I know that because they've all read Habakkuk chapter 2.
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  Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 2, God says to Habakkuk, the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.
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  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will speak and it will not lie.
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  Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
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  Behold the proud, his soul is upright in him, but what's the rest of the verse say?
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  but the just shall live by faith.
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  Turn to Romans chapter 1.
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  Romans chapter 1.
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  Paul writing to a congregation in what city?
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  Rome!
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  And what have we said the book of Revelation is all about?
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  Fall of Rome!
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  What Christians were strung up and hung in the streets in Rome and lit on fire?
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  The Christians from the church in Rome!
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  Paul says, verse 14, I am a debtor both to Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and the unwise.
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  So as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
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  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
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  For in it, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just
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  shall live by faith." But don't miss the next verse.
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  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is
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  manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.
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  For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they
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  are without excuse.
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  Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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  Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping
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  things.
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  Therefore God also gave them...
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  up to uncleanness, in the lust of their heart to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather
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  than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
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  Amen.
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  For this reason God gave them up to vile passions, for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
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  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty
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  of their error which was due.
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  And even if they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting.
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  Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, they are whisperers,
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  backbiter, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who knowing
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  the righteous
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  judgment of God that those who practice such things are deserving of death not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
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  Paul says, I'm in debt to my Lord and my Savior to preach the gospel that can save men's because the only alternative to the salvation offered by the gospel is this, the righteous
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  judgment of God.
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  And the only way, Paul says, that you're going to stand
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  in the day of God's wrath is if you live by faith.
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  Alright, turn to Revelation chapter 7.
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  Revelation chapter 7, after these things I saw four angels.
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  Okay?
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  So now what was the question that was asked?
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  Who's able to stand?
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  didn't ask a question without an answer.
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  When you look in the vision the question is asked, the answer is given.
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  Okay?
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  You're going to have a pause here before the commencement and the opening of the seventh seal because God's about to say I'm going to show you my judgment
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  I'm going to show you a judgment so great that you're going to see it as a justification for my servants who have been killed on the earth and an answer to those who have cried
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  out, long though Lord, how long will you allow this to go on?
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  And they're told, rest for a little while and I'm going to judge them and then he's going to say, but wait a minute, before I get to judging the earth,
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  before I get to judging those who are persecuting my people, before I get to judging those who are going to receive the wrath of Lamb, let me tell you about my people.
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  Let me tell you about how they're going to experience what's going to happen.
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  Okay?
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  So, I these things, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth.
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  All right, first person will come along and they'll say, see, the Bible is completely inaccurate.
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  The earth doesn't have any corners, it's a circle.
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  If you were to describe the four corners of the earth, what would you be talking about?
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  Direction, north, south, east, and west.
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  All right?
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  They've covered it all.
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  You can't look any direction, not see an angel.
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  All right?
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  So he says, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any
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  tree.
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  Now the reason you have angels holding back the wind,
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  It's not because God wanted a nice calm blissful day.
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  It's because the wind in prophetic literature and in the Old Testament and by the way in Egypt
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  was the bringer of the judgment of God.
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  How did God separate the Red Sea?
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  Strong wind.
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  How did God bring the Red Sea back together?
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  Strong wind.
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  How did God bring the locusts?
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  Strong wind.
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  You see, God's judgment comes on the wind in prophetic literature.
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  So you've got four angels at the four corners of the earth and they're holding the wind back.
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  causing the judgment.
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  Because the question was asked, who's going to be able to stand in the day of the wrath of the Lamb?
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  So they're saying, hold on, we'll hold the judgment while you show us the answer.
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  Okay?
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  Notice what happens.
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  Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God.
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  and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted." Now notice, you're going to know that I wasn't just making nonsense when I was talking about the wind,
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  because what were the angels granted to do?
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  They were granted to harm the earth and the sea.
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  And what does this angel tell the other angels?
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  Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, till we have sealed
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  the servants of our God on their foreheads.
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  The fifth angel comes out of the east, he comes out of the rising sun, and as he comes he says to the other angels, don't let the judgment start until we've marked God's people.
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  God's people have to be clearly marked so that they can survive the wrath and the judgment to come.
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  Now, if we were going to use Egypt as an example, what would the parallel of the mark of God be when Israel was in Egypt?
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  blood on the doorposts.
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  God told Israel through Moses, this night you're going to partake of that Passover feast and you're going to take the blood of that lamb that was without spot and without blemish
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  and of the first year and you're going to spread it on the doorposts and every house, by the way, Israelite or Egyptian, that had followed the command of God and spread the blood
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  on the doorposts did not receive the judgment.
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  and every house that didn't, happened?
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  The firstborn of everything from man to creature died.
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  God says, I marked my people, I know exactly who is not going to be judged.
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  That picture flows all the way through the Old Testament, flows all the way through the prophets to the book of Revelation.
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  Now, everywhere in the book of Revelation where you see something good, you should be watching for a parallel that is evil.
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  In chapter 7, God's people are going to receive a mark on their forehead.
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  Now, what's the mark that everybody who's concerned about the book of Revelation always wants to talk about?
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  Six, six, six, and where's the mark put?
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  On the forehead.
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  And they all want to talk about the mark of the beast.
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  For some reason, none of them want to talk about the mark of God.
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  You know there will not be a person alive when the events of revelation occur that doesn't have a mark on their forehead.
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  Every person on the earth is going to have one or the other.
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  666 or the name of God.
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  John could have walked through every street in Rome and he would have seen in the vision one person with the name of God, they were a Christian, one person with 666, they were
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  worshipping the beast.
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  Because God is dividing those who belong to Him and those who don't.
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  And nobody's left out.
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  He knows who all of them are.
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  But He's presenting to John
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  the message long before he talks about the judgment those who received the mark of the beast long before he talks about what's going to happen to them he tells John because the
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  recipient is the church not the world
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  I know who belongs to me and I know every single one of them.
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  So the angel comes up out of the east, he tells the other angels, you know, don't like, don't let the wind go, not till every one of God's people have God's name written on their
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  forehead.
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  Okay?
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  Notice what else happens.
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  He says, and I heard the number of those who were sealed.
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  144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed.
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  Of the tribe of Judah, 12,000 were sealed.
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  of the tribe of Ruben 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Gad 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Asher 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Naphtali 12,000 were sealed of the tribe
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  of Manasseh 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Simeon 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Levi 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Issachar 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of
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  Zebulun 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Joseph 12,000 were sealed of the tribe of Benjamin 12,000 were sealed
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  Alright, so we've got what?
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  All the tribes, Nope.
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  When you have the list of the 12 tribes of Israel, who is usually left out of that list?
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  What tribe?
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  That was a son of Jacob?
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  What tribe is usually left out?
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  Levi, because Levi is no longer a tribe of Israel, it is the tribe of God.
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  You go back there to the death of the firstborn, and you go back to the leaving in Egypt, and God says that the Levite tribe is going to stand in substitution of the firstborn of
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  all the nations.
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  God says, instead of you giving me your firstborn son from every tribe and from every family, you're going to give me one tribe and it's the tribe of Levi.
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  This is Exodus chapter 13.
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  And so the Levites stood as God's tribe out of all the people.
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  They didn't receive a land inheritance like everybody else.
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  They received cities among the tribes, but they didn't receive.
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  So usually when you have the list of tribes, Levi's left out.
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  Not one of the twelve tribes.
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  But did you notice that Joseph is in the list?
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  Is Joseph one of the 12 tribes of Israel?
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  No.
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  Joseph had two sons, Joseph being the eldest son of the preferred uh wife and the one through which the salvation of the family occurs is going to receive two tribes, Ephraim
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  and Manasseh.
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  And yet, what do you notice?
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  But the Manasseh is in the list.
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  And Joseph's in the list.
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  So, is this the literal, physical, 12 tribes of Israel?
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  No.
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  wouldn't even be in harmony with the Old Testament.
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  Twelve tribes of Israel.
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  But notice further.
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  There's an exact number, right?
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  And if you're a Mormon, you're really hoping you're gonna get to be one those 144,000 that gets to go to heaven, because everybody else is stuck here for the rest of whatever.
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  And if you're a pre-millennialist, you're really hoping that you're get to be one of those 144,000.
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  Tell me, is 144,000 people a large number?
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  Not when there's eight billion people on the planet.
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  In every single generation, not a big number, but it gets worse.
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  Because not only is it not a big number, they're all men.
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  And don't worry, it gets worse.
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  They're all unmarried.
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  They're all virgins.
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  Sorry, it's the text.
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  You can't argue with it.
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  If you're gonna make it literal, everybody who gets married, you just counted yourself out of the 144,000.
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  Sorry, if you were born female, you just counted yourself out of the 144,000.
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  But don't worry, I don't know very many women that would want to spend eternity in heaven with 144,000 men, none of whom have ever been married before and have not yet been trained
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  by their wife how to behave.
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  Now notice this.
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  He sees 144,000, 144,000, Why 144,000?
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  Pay close attention.
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  How many tribes were there?
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  Not in literal number, but representatively of Israel?
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  12.
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  How many apostles were there?
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  12.
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  12 represents the people of God.
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  It's a number from Israel all the way forward.
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  It represents the people of God.
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  How many?
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  spies were sent out to spy out the land.
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  Twelve!
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  Okay?
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  The number twelve is used prophetically, biblically, to represent God's people.
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  Now what did we say the number one thousand represents?
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  God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
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  What does that mean
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  all of them.
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  It is a number that means every single one.
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  It doesn't mean when you get to the thousand and first hill God doesn't own those cattle.
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  That's not what the psalmist writer meant when he used the terminology.
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  He meant it didn't matter where you found a hill and where you found a cow that belonged to the Lord.
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  Now you put the two ideas together.
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  If the number 12 represents God's people and the number 1000 represents all of whatever category we're talking about, then what do we have?
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  All of God's people multiplied by 12.
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  Right?
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  Each tribe, all of God's people.
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  Another tribe, all of God's people, another tribe, all of God's people, another tribe, all of God's people.
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  You've got all of God's people.
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  represented in multiple pictures, one picture represented in the tribes of Israel, the ones God chose to be His people.
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  You've got God's people represented in the number 12, the ones God chose to be His people.
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  You've got the picture represented in the apostles, the ones Jesus chose to be His apostles.
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  These are the people of God.
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  But you may say, Aaron, so God's gone through the earth and uh God's picked out the people who will be His.
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  See, that just proves that God elects His people, He predestinates them before they're ever born to be saved or lost, and that's what we're to know.
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  Turn back to Revelation chapter 3.
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  to the angel of church of Philadelphia.
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  These things says, he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens.
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  I know your works.
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  See, I have set before you an open door and no one can shut it.
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  For you have a little strength, I have kept my word and have not denied my name.
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  Indeed, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not.
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  but lie.
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  Indeed, I will make them come and worship before your feet, to know that I have loved you.
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  Because you have kept my command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which is to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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  Behold, I am coming quickly.
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  Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
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  He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more.
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  I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on him my new
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  name.
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  to the Christians in the first century.
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  John says, if you're faithful and you overcome and you do not deny my name, he says to the Christians in the church, I'm gonna write my name on your forehead.
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  So when you get to chapter seven, after he has plainly stated in chapter three who the people are who have the name of God written on their forehead, guess what?
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  The 144,000 represent the Christians who are faithful.
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  because God said, I'm going to save you from this hour of trial.
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  I'm going to save you from the judgment to come.
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  I'm going to save you from that which is about to come.
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  And what is chapter 7 about?
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  It's about God marking all of His people because they're the ones who aren't going to be judged by that which is to come.
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  You go to chapter 14 and we're not going to do this today, we'll do it in our next lesson.
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  You're going to see the 144,000 again and you're going to see that they're the followers of the Lamb.
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  John chapter 10, Jesus says he's the good shepherd.
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  And my sheep hear my voice.
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  The number 144,000 for all those who may be interested means every single Christian.
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  in the church.
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  Every one of the people of God, all of them God knows.
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  All of them.
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  God knows how to protect.
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  Just like in the days of Habakkuk.
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  When Habakkuk wants to know how in the world, God, are you going to judge a nation by the Chaldeans, which are more wicked than even Israel is?
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  And God says, I'll tell you how, because the just shall live by faith.
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  So when the judgment came from Babylon, you find Daniel, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael safely in Babylon when Jerusalem's destroyed.
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  When the destruction of Jerusalem comes, you find Ezekiel safely in Shushan when the judgment of Israel comes.
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  When you find the judgment upon the wicked nation and the wicked people that were left in Jerusalem, does Jeremiah die?
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  He's still in the land.
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  Does he die?
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  No.
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  Now he's taken by those who are left behind down to Egypt.
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  But what's the point?
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  God says, I know who belongs to me.
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  Unlike all the militaries of the earth, God doesn't accidentally drop a bomb where He didn't intend for it to be.
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  Now does that mean that there will never be a Christian who will ever suffer as a result of the tomb-mult of this world?
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  No!
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  Go back to the fifth seal and what do you have?
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  You find a whole bunch of Christians who are being killed!
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  But you've never found a faithful Christian who God accidentally judged and condemned.
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  Not a one.
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  God says, I don't lose track of my people.
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  I know who they are.
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  I wrote my name on them.
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  If you were to open up every Bible I have, you'll find a page somewhere in it where I wrote my name.
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  Not just because there are a lot of Bibles in the world that look alike, and not just because Aaron sometimes misplaces things, though Aaron often misplaces things, but mostly
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  so that when I pick it up, I know for sure who it belongs to.
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  And if somebody else finds it, they know who it belongs to.
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  And when chapter seven opens, the question is from chapter six, who's gonna be able to stand in the day of the wrath of the Lamb?
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  And the answer is every one of God's people, because God already marked them, and He knows who belongs to Him.
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  Okay, thank you for your attention.