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Living Waters of Grace - Feb 13, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  We believe that most of the prophecy that we read in
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  Revelation has yet to be fulfilled and it awaits future
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  fulfillment. We look at everything from
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  chapter 4 to the end of the book as a very short period before
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  the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. The main point though, when we
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  study this book is to realize that the Book of Revelation was
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  written to be understood, not to confuse people.
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  There is much light that can be given to you as you study this
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  book. My great grandmother loved
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  puzzles. Despite her dementia.
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  She could knock out a puzzle quicker than most and attempted
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  many puzzles, some big, some small, and all with varying
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  success. Without the box, however, it
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  becomes much more difficult. Similarly, the Book of
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  Revelation becomes difficult to comprehend without an
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  understanding of the bigger picture.
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  In today's message, Pastor Clark helps us start to assemble the
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  pieces of John's visions that he has recorded in this final book
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  of the Bible. Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  Book of Revelation chapter one with today's edition of Living
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  Waters of Grace. The Book of Revelation.
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  A lot of different views and different parts of the body of
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  Christ. Confusion for some people.
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  Some people getting arguments and debates about what this book
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  means or what it's all about. I'm not going to do that.
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  I'm not interested in arguing about the Bible, you know, I
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  just want to follow the Lord. Just have a simple walk with the
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  Lord and love him and do what he tells me to do and not argue
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  about things that people seem to get uptight about.
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  So we want to approach the book from a very practical point of
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  view, a very simple point of view, and at the same time do
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  justice to the theology and the history and the teachings of
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  this book by the person of the Holy Spirit.
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  So I'm going to give you some background information today,
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  and I hope it won't prove boring to you, but I think it's
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  important to have a infrastructure of basis, a
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  foundation of understanding the book and what it is conveying.
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  The word revelation comes from the Greek word called the
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  Apocalypse and that is the unveiling and the uncovering of
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  what has not yet been seen or revealed up until the time that
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  this book has been given by the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It's called the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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  Now the Apostle John wrote this book as he was spoken to by the
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  Angel of God and at times Jesus Christ directly.
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  And as a result of that we have some similarities that we can
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  draw upon from some of his style of writing.
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  He's the one that wrote the Gospel of John.
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  He also wrote the three epistles.
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  Of course, John the Apostle, the beloved one of Jesus Christ, He
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  had a tremendous relationship with the Lord.
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  And so this book, as it says in first one, the revelation of
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  Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show his servants things
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  which must shortly take place, things will eventually soon take
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  place. There's four approaches or views
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  historically of how to interpret this Book of Revelation being
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  predictive prophecy. The first reference that I want
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  to share is called the historic approach.
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  And the historic approach was sort of the Protestant view of a
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  lot of people down through the ages, from the time that John
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  wrote this book till the fulfillment of the second coming
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  of Christ at the end of time. The people that take the
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  historic approach look at the fulfillment of the truths and
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  revelation as a process of progress going from the time of
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  Christ's ascension to the time that he returns.
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  And this has been unfolding over the last 2000 years.
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  That's an approach. Another view is the preterist
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  view and the preterist believe there's two types of preterist,
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  the full preterist and the partial preterist.
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  The full preterist would actually say that everything in
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  Revelation has already been fulfilled.
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  That's crazy. But they believe the second
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  coming of Christ occurred after the destruction of Jerusalem in
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  AD 70 and that we're living in a Kingdom age now.
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  And I don't know about you, but if this is a Kingdom age, I'm
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  going to have to like look for a different savior because this
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  ain't working, right? So for me, that's absurd.
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  You know, I've met people to have that view and it's
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  heretical. I remember Paul declaring about
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  those in the time that he was living that proclaimed that the
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  Lord had come and that the people had missed the rapture.
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  And I mean this. And he said that these people
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  come to overthrow the faith of the week and they're not
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  biblical people. Also, we have the view of
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  partial preterist and partial preterist.
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  See the final chapters of the Book of Revelation yet to be
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  revealed. So they're obviously not in the
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  same camp as full preterist. They are looking forward to the
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  second coming of Christ. I think like the Bible answer,
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  man Hank, he's one of those guys that are considering himself as
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  a partial preterist. I don't know when people call
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  themselves a Bible answer man, and they claim that they're
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  speaking for everyone that believes the Bible, think it's
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  shaky. I think he has some valuable
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  things to say, but there's some things that he says that I don't
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  think you're rooted in sound biblical exegesis.
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  And then there's a spiritual approach.
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  And this is the group of people that look at everything in
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  Revelation is symbolism or allegory.
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  They see it as a drama depicting transcendent spiritual
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  realities. They see these historical events
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  throughout the ages rather than time specific fulfillments.
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  And they believe that revelation can be a part of any age.
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  So those are three of the major views.
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  Our view is a futuristic approach and nowadays people
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  that you listen to on the radio that you might like or respect,
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  like of course, Chuck Smith, Calvary Chapel, John MacArthur,
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  Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll, guys that you hear on the radio
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  that are still sound, David, Jeremiah that are very similar
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  in their approach and teaching the word that we are here all
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  are futuristic exegetical Bible teachers.
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  And so we believe that most of the prophecy that we read in
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  Revelation has yet to be fulfilled and it awaits future
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  fulfillment. We look at everything from
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  chapter 4 to the end of the book as a very short period before
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  the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. The main point, though, when we
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  study this book is to realize that the Book of Revelation was
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  written to be understood, not to confuse people.
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  There's much light that can be given to you as you study this
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  book, as we study it in the light of other prophetical books
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  like Daniel, Ezekiel, Joel, and others.
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  So when you're studying this book, we encourage that, as John
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  promised, there's a special blessing for those who read this
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  book and hear the book and do what it says.
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  So that's the most important thing.
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  Now, when we look at futuristic events, they are, to be honest
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  with you, somewhat obscure. When you read certain things,
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  you sort of in your own mind, think, well, how will this come
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  the past and how will this actually work out?
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  And you have some questions, which is good.
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  And if you have questions as opposed to thinking you know it
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  all, that's a good thing because you want to approach this book
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  with humility, understanding that there's still some things
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  that need to come to pass. And you'll definitely know them
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  after they come to pass. But before they come to pass,
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  sometimes you know, you're looking through a glass starkly.
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  You just don't know for sure yet.
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  But the bottom line we one thing we do know for sure is that
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  Christ is coming back again. He promised he would come back
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  again. So to gain a correct
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  understanding of this book, first of all you have to
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  recognize that this book was written as an epistle to a
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  certain group of churches at the time that the apostle John was
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  living. It was very, very important, the
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  things that he was addressing because they were given to him
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  by Jesus Christ. And the churches at that time
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  were in disarray just like they are today.
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  You could take those seven churches of Revelation and
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  compare them to churches in our time and you could say, well,
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  what kind of church is Calvary Chapel, you know, and you would
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  be able to hopefully look at that list and line us up with
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  hopefully the Church of Philadelphia that still has a
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  little faith and is persevering. Hopefully you wouldn't say,
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  well, recoveries like Laodicea, that would be a real horrible
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  thing to be in a church like that prior to the return of the
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  Lord. But in the last days, it talks
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  about many falling away from the faith as we've studied in Jude
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  and the epistles of John, giving heed to seducing spirits and
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  doctrines of demons, people who are believing things today that
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  they wouldn't have believed 20 years ago.
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  And so I believe that we are moving more toward the days of
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  Laodicea. Matter of fact, it says when the
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  Son of Man comes, he says, well, I even find faith on the earth.
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  And this the great falling away is the tragic thing where people
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  will no longer value the truths of the word of God.
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  They'll no longer find a need to worship God.
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  They'll have many other things that are capturing their
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  attention and they'll begin to slip away from what is really,
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  really important. But this book addresses the
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  specific needs and interests and issues at the time that it was
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  written, what these people were actually going through.
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  But it also needs to be understood how it's applied to
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  the circumstances and the days that we're also living.
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  And if you look at the book that way, then you're able to more
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  objectively transfer certain truths to our own times with our
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  own specific needs and issues. So Revelation is a book of
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  prophecy that's designed to encourage you, to warn you, and
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  to comfort you. Now, if you're a believer today
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  and you're walking with the Lord, and as the old hymn says,
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  it's well with my soul, you can be totally engulfed in
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  everything this book's teaching because you're anticipating and
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  looking forward to the return of the Lord.
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  If you're backslidden or you're not following the Lord or you
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  don't know Christ yet, this book can be a horror for you because
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  it will begin to expose you to some very, very serious things
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  that await those who are without Christ.
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  And if it's what brings you to Christ and gets you saved,
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  that's a good thing. You know, God doesn't use
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  illustrations to destroy you. He writes these things that you
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  might be saved. So chapter 2 and three, as we
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  will eventually look at that will give us a history of the
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  testimony, as I said, of the seven churches of Asia Minor.
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  But as I said, this message of revelation is given to comfort
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  the persecuted people at the time that they were living.
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  The persecution on the face of the earth during the days of the
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  apostles was unbelievable. The Roman Empire was evil.
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  All it wanted to do was destroy and martyr the Christians.
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  And so John is writing this book not only to educate them about
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  what's going to eventually happen, to comfort those who are
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  persecuted, afflicted in their righteous walks, and also called
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  a repentance to those who are straying.
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  So chapters 4 through 22 will give you a predictive analysis
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  of the events that will be occurring after these things are
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  established. Now, the Book of Revelation is
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  apocalyptic literature. As you see this, you might say,
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  man, what in the world is that? It looks like some guy's on an
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  LSD trip or something. You know, it's just very, very
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  bizarre, the symbolism and the metaphors that are used in that
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  kind of stuff. It's like other than this world,
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  but as we study it, we're going to see that even though it's
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  apocalyptic and it's expanse, it's very, very practical and
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  many things can be actually seen as literal.
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  Apocalyptic literature during the time of John was very
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  popular. There was other books that were
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  written that weren't considered part of the Canon or the Bible
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  that we have today. And so they talked and they use
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  this kind of writing back then and it reveals certain mysteries
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  about heaven and earth, about man and God, about angels and
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  demons and the life of the world today and the world to come.
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  So all these things are part of what you're going to be getting
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  exposed to in this book. It's a very, very important
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  book, especially for these days that we're living.
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  The book was written in the times of intense persecution
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  somewhere around 96 AD, where you had different Antiochus
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  Epiphanes, you had Cyrus, you had Nero and had Dormition.
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  These different world rulers at the time were Roman empires and
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  they were ungodly. And so their whole focus was to
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  destroy this new group of people called Christians.
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  John talks in verse 9. He says I'm your brother and
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  companion in this tribulation and Kingdom and patience of
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  Jesus Christ. So he's in the situation himself
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  as well of understanding the times that they're living in,
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  great suffering at that time and also great suffering that's
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  lying ahead for those who will still be on the earth after the
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  rapture, martyrdom, recurring theme throughout this book, the
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  number of people who have died for their faith since the
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  inception of the gospel. Is this unbelievable?
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  We're fortunate enough to live in a country where at this point
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  in time, we're not being hung on crosses or burning oil.
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  Now, what's interesting here, these seven churches were in
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  what today is considered modern Turkey.
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  Now, if anybody knows anything about Turkey today, it's
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  primarily an Islamic country. 90% of the population in Turkey
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  is Islam. There's only a few Orthodox
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  Christians left there in that country.
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  And that country initially was one of the Seas of the early
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  church. Constantinople, one of the
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  largest churches built in our history, was built in that
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  particular country. And now it's this, a museum.
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  But as we look in this book, the vision of John is imagery that
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  you just in your own mind, outside of looking at Movies
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  Now, going to the theater, we're all familiar with monsters and
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  Dragons and that kind of stuff. But he uses all these pictures
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  in this book to convey deeper thoughts.
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  And there's also a lot of numbers that are given in the
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  book, names depicting the conflict between good and evil.
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  Now, symbolism in the sense of me just making it up as I go
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  along, I think it means this. I think it means that I'm not
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  going to do that to you. I'm going to give you some
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  history from other books of the Bible that will help connect
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  some of the symbolism and make it more literal.
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  But you just can't arbitrarily take what's in this book and try
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  to make everything literal because not everything is
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  revealed yet. We're still waiting for some of
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  these things to develop in the future.
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  And there's an old term in seminaries and Bible college
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  called hermeneutics. And hermeneutics is a study of
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  how to interpret Scripture. And it says when the plain sense
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  of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense.
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  But take every word at its literal meaning unless studied
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  in the light of related passages, something else is
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  indicated otherwise. And so when we look at this,
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  we're going to look at it in regards to the related passages,
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  But as we think about some of the things that John was going
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  to be writing about, a lot of these symbols that he's speaking
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  about really relate to personal and national entities at that
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  time that they were living and what would eventually develop in
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  the future. Many of these leaders are
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  portrayed as animals. We see the symbolism of the Lamb
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  and it refers to our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lamb who was
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  slain before the foundation of the earth.
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  The dragon is referred, Satan himself and the beast, the
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  demonic spirits and the mutant locusts, all these things that
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  we'll read in time. He also discusses cities and
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  they're depicted as harlots and a bride.
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  And we look at Babylon and Sodom and Egypt and Jerusalem, and in
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  the context of those kind of things also at that time, as he
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  looks at the symbols that he's been given, they represent
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  political upheaval that will eventually occur and also terms
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  of cosmic disruptions. We read in Matthew about the sun
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  and moon, and also in Revelation being darkened, the stars
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  falling, every island, the mountain disappearing.
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  Also the number 7 is used throughout this book.
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  And #7 refers to completeness and perfection in the Scriptures
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  and throughout the Scripture, Deuteronomy, Psalms, and
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  Proverbs, this number is used many, many times.
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  In the Book of Revelation, this number is used to refer to the
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  seven churches, the seven seals, the seven trumpets, the seven
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  bowls, the seven thunders, and the seven beatitudes.
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  There are beatitudes in the Book of Revelation and the first one
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  we read the day about. Those who read this book are
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  blessed. Those who hear the words of the
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  prophecy are blessed, and those who keep those things which are
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  written in it for the time is near.
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  That's the first beatitudes of the seven in the Book of
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  Revelation. There's also fractions and
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  numbers given like 1/3 multiples of 12, like the 24 elders before
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  the throne and 144,000 witnesses during the time of the
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  tribulation, the thousand year reign. 10 days, one hour, a
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  little while he uses all these times.
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  As we look at this book, Revelation, it is completely
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  different pretty much than any other book in the Scriptures.
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  Matter of fact, there was a lot of controversy in the early
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  church as to whether it should be part of the Canon.
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  Now, the apostles, obviously they're the forerunners of the
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  church, and what they were given is what we have today in our
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  Scriptures. But there was a lot of confusion
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  back then because of the inability to even begin to
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  comprehend in the slightest way what this book was saying at
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  that time. But it is truly inspired by God
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  as a prophecy. It identifies very clearly to us
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  the name of its true author. It actually predicts the future,
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  and it's an epistle in the apocalyptic mode that predicts
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  events of the future under the inspiration of God, the Holy
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  Spirit. Now, the reign of this emperor,
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  the mission, he was a very, very terrible, mean ruler.
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  He wanted to persecute the whole region.
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  Nero just had the ability to affect Rome at the time.
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  But as the church grew, this man who was in charge, the emperor
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  at the time, had the ability to deal with the whole area and try
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  to destroy everybody that lived at that time.
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  We study in history that Nicodemus was one of those who
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  were martyred during this time of this reign of this evil
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  emperor. Also Timothy.
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  Timothy was out in the streets speaking against the ungodly
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  role this leader and the things that were happening and the
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  people came upon him and clubbed him and physically beat him in a
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  couple days after his beating he he died.
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  It's taught that John the Apostle was boiled in oil before
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  he was sent an eggs out to this Isle of Patmos.
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  And so he, as he said in verse 9, I'm your brother and
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  companion in the Tribulation. He was experiencing the horror.
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  And so as we look at these churches, they were all at
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  different levels in their spiritual foundation as to how
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  they were following Jesus Christ.
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  As we study the book, you'll see there's a lot of allusion to
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  other parts of the Bible, but there's not one quote from
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  another book clearly defined in the Book of Revelation.
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  There's imagery from hundreds of Old Testament passages though it
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  gives a symbol of 2 olive trees referring to the two witnesses
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  in Chapter 11 at Echo Zechariah 43. 11 through 14 referring to
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  Zerubbabel and Joshua. There's hundreds of allusions to
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  familiar images in the Old Testament from the book of
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  Isaiah alone. 79 times alluded references Daniel 53 times
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  Ezekiel 48 Psalms 43 times Exodus 27 times Jeremiah 22
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  Zechariah 15 Amos 9 Joel 8. The Old Testament was the
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  foundation of what the apostles taught from.
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  They didn't have everything like you and I have now, so
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  everything they drew upon was the Old Testament scriptures.
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  It also gives us the insights of the matrix that are set up in
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  the book. Like for example it gives the
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  illustration of the Babylonian exile and Exodus and also
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  comparing it to the life of Jesus.
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  We see an evil power in the book of Exodus persecuting God's
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  people, Pharaoh in Egypt, but we see an evil power persecuting
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  God's people in the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist.
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  We see plagues of darkness and hail and locusts and boils and
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  frogs and water and turn into blood in the book of Exodus.
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  We also see this revealed in the Book of Revelation.
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  It talks about being delivered by the blood of the lamb in the
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  Old Testament. In the book of Exodus, when the
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  blood was put on the doorposts and the Angel of God spoke to
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  the children of Israel saying when God sees the blood, he will
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  pass over that house that the blood is applied to and they
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  will not lose the life of the first born.
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  But we also see in Revelation that we are delivered by the
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  blood of Jesus Christ. Talks about the dragon,
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  referring to the dragon in the Angel, the demonic forces of the
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  devil in the Book of Revelation. Also in Ezekiel 29 three talks
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  about the crossing of the Red Sea where they sang the song of
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  Moses and the Redeem will sing in the Book of Revelation The
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  song of Moses and the Lamb. In Revelation 15 it also
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  discusses the Tabernacle and all its furnishings.
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  In the book of Hebrews it discusses that the earthly
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  Tabernacle is a model of the heavenly counterpart.
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  A matter of fact, when you want to learn about worship, and I
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  think we all have a lot more to learn about worship.
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  Even though we worship the Lord here in spirit and truth and we
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  lift our hearts up to God, we're only we've got a glimpse, a
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  minor glimpse of what it's going to be like to worship and the
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  Kingdom of heaven. But if you really want to see
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  pure, divine, holy, God centered, God ordained worship,
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  you read the worship in the Book of Revelation.
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  John describes the atmosphere golden lampstands that are
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  present in chapter 1 verse 12, hidden man associated with the
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  ark of the covenant in chapter 2 verse 17, the altar of incense
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  chapter 8 verse 3 through 5, the holy of holies in Chapter 11
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  verse one and 15 verse 8, and the Ark of the covenant in
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  Chapter 11 verse 19. We think about the birth of
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  Christ and the death and the burial and the resurrection and
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  his victory over Satan. A reference frequently in this
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  book because it's all about Christ.
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  His birth and ascension is depicted in chapter 12, verse 5.
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  What's fascinating is when they talk about the two witnesses
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  that will be on the earth during the time of the Tribulation,
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  proclaiming the Kingdom of God and the coming of Christ.
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  They mirror Christ's earthly ministry almost identically.
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  Their ministry lasted 3 1/2 years.
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  Christ's earthly ministry after the baptism was 3 1/2 years.
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  Revelation 11 and Three speaks of these two witnesses.
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  We believe they are Elijah and Enoch.
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  Some people believe Elijah and Moses, but Elijah and Enoch,
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  those two were the ones that never tasted physical death.
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  This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark.
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  We're going through the challenging and also intriguing
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  Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading
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  ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to
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  reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends.
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  But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation
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  is not really the end, but rather the beginning.
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  It's the end of life as we know it here on earth.
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  But there's so much to look forward to for what comes after
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  all the judgement of the earth and those who reject God.
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  There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to
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  read through the intense judgements and wrath that will
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  come on those who hate God with all their might.
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  The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these
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  people. They don't want it.
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  So the outcome is that there are judgments and consequences for
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  those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation
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  that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection.
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  Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really
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  want it because you want to live life on your terms?
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  Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better.
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  That doesn't mean it will be easy.
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  As you listen and read through Revelation with us, you'll come
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  to a stark realization that you don't want to be on earth when
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  the apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel
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  online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith
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  that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity.
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  We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel
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  Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh
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  St., Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.
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  This has been living Waters of Grace.