Participants: James Rafferty (Host), Ivor Meyers (Host), Yvonne Lewis, Jason Bradley
Series Code: SISS
Program Code: SISS000019A
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00:31 Okay, now we're in a really interesting part of Revelation,
00:33 not that the other hasn't been interesting. 00:35 But now we're into of the this part 00:37 about this four mysterious horses. 00:38 I mean, it's taken us 18 meetings to get this far. 00:42 Yeah, but it's been good 00:44 because we're not ploughing through, 00:46 we're taking it in bite size, morsel you know, 00:50 it's digestible this way, 00:52 so that it's just not over whelming. 00:55 In the past for me, 00:57 many times it's been overwhelm, you know, 00:59 you just trying to read it through 01:00 and you just cant connect the dots, 01:02 but this is just you know, it's digestible. 01:06 So, I'm loving this. 01:07 Yeah, this is deep book 01:09 that a lot of people don't even want to touch. 01:10 That's true. 01:11 Because it's just... 01:13 you know, all that lot of people says. 01:14 Yeah, I like the fact that we're going slower. 01:16 It's a good point. 01:18 I mean, we could have just 18, 01:19 we could almost finish the book in 18 meetings, right? 01:21 But I think you're right, I think we need to go slow, 01:24 we need to process it, these are keepers by the way. 01:27 These are thorough studies in the Book of Revelation, 01:30 deep stuff, good stuff. 01:32 I like the fact that we are, 01:33 when you and I were talking we decided we'll cover, 01:37 trying to get into may be Revelation 12 or 13, 01:40 may be in the first like five or six you know, 01:44 programs and no, 01:46 we've been moving through this much slower, so praise God. 01:49 You know, 01:51 but now the implication is J and I am kind of slow. 01:55 So we're not... 01:57 The implication is we're enjoy this 01:59 and just eating slowly. 02:01 Oh, see, you fixed it, you fixed it. 02:03 Better clean it up. 02:05 Yeah, that's right, that's right. 02:06 You must have been practicing with the taunting. 02:10 You guys are hand picked, by the best. 02:14 Because that's, you're right, we need to slow this down. 02:16 You know, one of the dangers that I think we face... 02:19 I remind, let's just say, 02:21 preaching, teaching Revelation 02:23 for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, okay. 02:25 We're familiar with book, 02:26 we're familiar with the material, 02:28 we know what it says, 02:29 and so we've this danger just taken off. 02:31 Like these horses, we're just gonna just take off 02:32 and we're just gone, run in gallop. 02:34 You know, like, "Wait, wait, wait for us." 02:36 So you're here for purpose 02:38 at least to slow us down a little bit 02:40 so that we can connect with people 02:42 and they can follow through with this, 02:44 and get it, and understand it. 02:46 So I liked that, I like this mix. 02:47 I think it's really-- Yeah, me too. 02:49 Okay, four horses. Okay. 02:50 Four horses 02:52 We got four horses coming out of the seal book 02:54 and then we got three other seals, 02:55 really the four horses, just a quick over view, 02:58 are the first four of seven seals. 03:01 Jesus Christ, the lamb, symbolized here as a lamb, 03:05 representing the cross in Calvary, 03:06 according to Revelation 5, 03:08 is the one who has taken the book form him. 03:10 It says, son of throne, he's about unseal it, 03:12 Revelation 6:1. 03:14 And as he unseals the first four seals, 03:17 these horses go forth. 03:18 And in the fifth seal, the sixth seal, seventh seal, 03:21 the silence in heaven about the space 03:22 of half an hour. 03:24 Now we want to remind ourselves that this is again, 03:28 repeat and enlargement upon the seven churches. 03:32 That was the history from the early apostolic age 03:35 down to the second coming of Jesus Christ. 03:37 Now we're moving into the seven seals, 03:39 we're going to repeat, enlarge that same history. 03:41 We're going to go back to the apostolic age, 03:44 with the first horse, seal unsealed, 03:45 and we're gonna move all the way 03:47 through that same history 03:48 all the way to the second coming of Jesus Christ. 03:50 Two reasons why we know this really clearly. 03:53 Reason number one, 03:54 when we get to the sixth, and seventh seal, 03:56 we know its second coming of Jesus. 03:58 I mean, it's going to be obvious to us 03:59 it's the second coming of Christ. 04:01 And when we start in Revelation 6 04:04 with the first seal been unsealed, 04:07 we see this horse, and this rider with a bow, 04:11 and a crown, and it's white, 04:13 and the implications there is it something victorious, 04:17 something powerful is taking place 04:18 because this horse and its rider 04:20 are going forth conquering and conquer. 04:23 So, let's start, Jason, by reading the verses 04:25 and then we'll get in to understanding them. 04:27 Revelation 6:1-2. 04:29 We didn't had prayer yet. 04:30 Let's start with the word of prayers, 04:32 then we'll get into reading the verses. 04:34 That's good. That's good. 04:36 All right. 04:37 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much 04:39 for allowing has to be together once again 04:40 and studying your word. 04:42 Lord, as we take a look in Revelation 04:44 we ask that you would help us to fully comprehend 04:48 what we're studying 04:49 and to be able to retain the information 04:50 and share with others. 04:52 In Jesus' name we pray. 04:53 Amen. Amen. 04:55 All right. 04:56 So, the lamb open six seals okay, 04:59 "And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, 05:02 and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, 05:05 one of the four beasts saying, come and see. 05:08 And I saw, and behold a white horse, 05:11 and he that sat on him had a bow, 05:13 and a crown was given unto him, 05:15 and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." 05:18 And when he had-- 05:19 Just stop right there. Okay. 05:20 First seal, lets just start with the first seal. 05:22 All right a few observations here as we start. 05:26 The lamb is a symbol of the cross of Calvary. 05:29 The book is a book that sealed and no man can open it, 05:32 no man in heaven, no man in earth, 05:34 and no man under the earth. 05:36 It is a book that covers the history of humanity 05:40 in the context of Biblical truth. 05:43 In other words, this is Gods book, 05:44 so its God's record of biblical or God's record of our history, 05:48 biblical record of our history. 05:51 What I'm trying to say is 05:52 this book is sealed to our understanding. 05:54 That's what it means when it says sealed, 05:56 we can understand it. 05:58 There was another book in the Old Testimony 05:59 that was sealed for little time, 06:01 the Book of Daniel. 06:02 And the reason why it was sealed 06:03 because the Daniel couldn't understand it. 06:05 So, the point is that 06:07 when a book is sealed in Bible prophecy, 06:10 it means it can't be understood. 06:12 Now the Book of Revelation isn't sealed. 06:14 But the book that's revealed here 06:16 in the context of Revelation 6 is sealed. 06:20 But here's the key, the lamb opens it. 06:23 The lamb represents the cross, 06:25 the lamb represents the Calvary. 06:26 So, it is in the mystery of the cross, 06:28 it is in the mystery of Calvary 06:30 that every thing that is sealed is going to be opened. 06:33 So this is it's revealed through the cross. 06:38 Its revealed through the cross. Okay. 06:40 The cross is the mystery 06:42 that unlocks all other mysteries. 06:44 So when you look, 06:46 and this is why this is important to be honest 06:47 because when we look at the four horsemen, 06:50 we have a lot of theories up there. 06:52 We have lot of ideas over for horsemen, 06:54 that's talking about, you know there is Russians, 06:57 and then there's the Chinese, 06:58 and there's big conflict taking place, 07:00 and there is death, and there is, 07:02 you know all of that kind of stuff. 07:04 The first thing we want to look for, 07:05 when we look at the four horses, 07:07 is we want to look for Calvary, 07:09 we want to look for the cross, 07:11 we want to look for the plan of salvation. 07:12 Because it's the mystery of the cross 07:14 that's unlocking these seals, 07:15 it's unsealing these seals and showing us what it is 07:18 this actually means. 07:20 I would also add to that, that remember the structure 07:24 that we talked about 07:26 that you find in the Book of Revelation, 07:28 as it related to the sanctuary. 07:30 And we saw that you know, the seven candle sticks unfold, 07:33 I'm sorry, the seven churches unfold 07:35 under the seven candle sticks. 07:37 The seven seals we saw unfolds under the table of showbread 07:41 and the seven trumpets unfolds under the altar of incenses. 07:45 All those are located in the holy place, 07:49 and the priest are, when he minister at one, 07:52 he was minister at the other. 07:53 It was a simultaneous minister. 07:56 So, we know that whatever we're looking for 07:57 in the seven seals, 07:59 they must run simultaneously with the history 08:03 we've seen in the seven churches. 08:05 And so, this is how we can know, 08:07 we're not looking for, for example, 08:09 the first horse to be something that happens, you know... 08:11 In the first century, yeah. 08:13 All right. 08:14 We're looking for things that must correspond 08:16 with the seven churches. 08:18 And as we get to the seven trumpets, 08:20 we are now looking for things that must correspond 08:21 with the seven seals and the seven churches, 08:23 which means the further we going to the study 08:26 is the more, 08:28 the most firm the foundation is to help us 08:31 understand everything else that comes. 08:34 So I want to share something as we get into the first horse, 08:37 this first seal that really helps again, 08:40 I think to set the foundation. 08:42 And it deals with, again, what we've just mentioned, 08:44 these seals unfold. 08:48 The opening vision here is at the table of showbread, 08:52 and the reason we know that 08:54 because when we read Revelation 4:5, 08:57 the bible tells us that before the... 09:01 The throne, there was seven lamps burning. 09:05 So we know that these seven lamps 09:06 are located directly across from the throne. 09:10 When we go to the Old Testament sanctuary 09:12 we see that the article furniture 09:15 that was located directly across 09:17 from the seven branch candle stick 09:19 is the table of showbread. 09:20 Okay. 09:22 Let me just show these three things very quickly 09:24 that we need to be looking for consistently 09:27 right throughout these seven seals. 09:29 The table of showbread 09:31 is located on the side to the north. 09:33 Now you remember that in the Book of Isaiah 14:13, 09:39 Lucifer wanted to sit on the sides to the north. 09:42 Why? 09:44 He actually says, 09:45 "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, 09:48 I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation 09:53 on the sides of the north." 09:54 Yep. 09:55 So what is the mount of the congregation? 09:57 That's God's people. 09:59 And what's on the table of showbread? 10:01 Twelve loaves of bread. 10:03 So those 12 loaves represent the people of God. 10:07 What a Satan wanted to do? 10:08 He wants to rule over those people. 10:12 So what we can know then 10:14 as we look at these seven seals, 10:16 they going to reveal to us 10:18 the conflict between God and Satan 10:21 over the mount of the congregation. 10:24 In other words, this is Satan trying to insinuate himself 10:28 over the mount of congregation, right. 10:31 Two more things very quickly, the second thing is this, 10:34 the word of God, the table of showbread 10:36 with those loaves of bread on it 10:37 represents the word of God. 10:39 "Man shall not live by bread alone, 10:40 but by every word that precedes out of the mouth of God." 10:43 So we can also expect that the seven seals 10:47 will reflect some kind of controversy 10:50 over the word of God. 10:52 And finally, and I will read this here, 10:54 I have it open on my computer, Leviticus 24:7-8. 10:58 In Leviticus 24:7-8, it reads this. 11:01 "And thou shalt put pure frankincense 11:03 upon each row 11:04 that it may be on the bread for a memorial, 11:07 even an offering made by fire unto the Lord." 11:09 Talking about the table of showbread. 11:11 Now listen to this, 11:12 "Every Sabbath he shall set it 11:14 in order before the Lord continually, 11:17 being taken from the children of Israel 11:19 by an everlasting covenant." 11:20 So the table showbread, not only bring our attention 11:24 to the mount of the congregation, 11:25 not only to the word of God, 11:28 but also specifically to the Sabbath of commandment. 11:32 In other words, the table showbread 11:34 brings our attention to the fact 11:35 that every seven days, every Sabbath, 11:38 that the bread was to be changed. 11:39 So as we go through seven seals, 11:41 here's we need to be looking for. 11:43 Number one, 11:44 how is Satan trying to insinuate himself 11:46 over the mount of congregation? 11:48 God's people. God's people. 11:50 Number two, how is he doing this? 11:52 By seeking to put his word 11:55 over the God's word or corrupt God's word? 11:57 Got it. 11:59 And number three, 12:00 what does all these have to do with the Sabbath? 12:03 And I will tell you this, James, its amazing 12:05 because right at the end of the six seals, 12:08 you have a group that is introduced. 12:10 They are called the hundred and forty four thousand. 12:13 And guess, where they're seen standing in Revelation 14? 12:17 On mount Sinai. 12:18 Which is where? On the sides of the north. 12:22 And they are also sealed with the seal of God. 12:23 And there are seals... 12:25 Direct us to the Sabbath Seven seals, 12:29 the hundred and forty four thousand 12:30 is mentioned right within the context of this battle 12:33 over the mount of the congregation, 12:35 the word of God or the law of God, 12:37 and the Sabbath specifically. 12:39 Now I really like... 12:40 Go ahead. Oh, yeah. 12:41 I just want you to go back over numbers two and three. 12:45 So yeah, how is Satan trying to rule the God's people? 12:49 Mount of the congregation, number two is the word of God. 12:52 How he's undermining God's word. 12:54 Right, "Man shall not live by bread alone 12:55 but by every word." 12:58 And number three, the Sabbath commanded specifically. 13:02 Because the showbread was changed 13:04 out of every Sabbath, every seventh day. 13:06 Yes. Okay. 13:08 And of course, God rained bread down six days 13:11 and that was a test pointing to the Sabbath. 13:14 The manna. The manna. 13:15 That's didn't come on Sabbath. 13:17 Okay, now in relation to that, those three points, 13:20 and it's interesting there's four horses 13:22 because three of the horses are actually representing 13:25 Satan seeking to undermine, undermine, undermine, 13:27 but one of the horses, the first horse, 13:29 the white horse actual represents God. 13:33 And we not only are going to find out 13:35 what Satan is doing in the seals, 13:37 but we're also going to find out 13:38 how we can be protective from what he is doing, 13:41 by connecting ourselves with Jesus. 13:43 Now the first thing I want us to do is, 13:45 look at a couple of Bible verses 13:46 that are going to help to identify this white horse 13:49 and it's rider 13:51 because we want to understand who this horse is. 13:54 It's the first one. Right. 13:55 It's going to be important for us, 13:57 if indeed it is a representation of Jesus. 14:00 So Revelation 19, 14:03 by the way this is really important 14:04 because we're keeping large, 14:06 all of the things that we're going to see here, 14:08 we're going to see enlarged upon 14:10 as we go to the end of the book, 14:11 and Revelation 19 is an enlargement 14:13 upon this horse and it's rider. 14:15 Revelation 19 is speaking here 14:18 and beginning here with verse 11, 14:21 about what we can consider to be 14:22 the culmination of the battle of Armageddon, 14:24 the battle for the mount of the congregation. 14:27 And it's talking about the time when Jesus returns, 14:30 which is also included in Revelation 7, 14:33 the sixth, or seventh, sixth and seventh seals. 14:37 So Revelation 19:11, 14:39 "I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse." 14:43 Okay, there's a white horse in Revelation 6:2, 14:46 and now here's a white horse in Revelation 19:11. 14:50 The first principle of Bible study, 14:52 especially prophetic Bible study 14:54 is to let the prophecy interpret itself, 14:56 let the prophecy interpret itself. 14:58 Don't jump out there and look somewhere in the world 15:00 for some kind of news report 15:02 that's going to talk about this guy 15:03 that bought a white horse and he wants to rule the world. 15:05 And so you know, 15:07 he's riding this horse to every different nation, 15:08 and just trying to get people to follow him. 15:10 No. 15:11 Well, James, James, you know that there are people 15:13 who teach that this rider on a white horse is antichrist. 15:16 I understand that. 15:18 And it's you know, that's just a total violation 15:20 of the time period we're looking at. 15:23 The Bible interpreting itself. 15:24 So these are some of the conclusions 15:26 you can come to when you don't allow the Bible 15:29 to be it's own interpreter. 15:30 And we want to weight those, you know, 15:32 we want to weight those, 15:33 because Paul did talk about antichrist 15:35 rising up in this time you know, et cetera. 15:36 But we also want to recognize these, 15:38 what's the evidence? 15:40 Let's look at the evidence. Okay. 15:41 Evidence number one, in the context of Revelation, 15:44 we have an interpretation for the white horse. 15:47 It says, "I saw and behold the heaven was opened, 15:49 behold a white horse and he that sat on him 15:51 was called Faithful and Truth, 15:56 and in righteousness he judge and make war." 16:00 And it goes on here, now, this is really interesting. 16:02 "His eyes was a flame of fire, his head were many crowns. 16:05 He had a name written which no man knew, 16:08 but he himself, 16:09 he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood 16:12 and his name is called..." 16:13 "The word of God." "The word of God." 16:15 "The word of God." 16:16 And in the beginning where's the word? 16:17 Yes, and the table of showbread represents the... 16:20 Wow. Okay. 16:21 So we've seeing the connections here, 16:23 it's really simple. 16:24 This horse and its rider is the symbol of Gods people, 16:27 Gods church, and Jesus Christ. 16:29 They are connected here, okay, they are connected. 16:31 Now let me give you a, let's look at an Old Testimony verse. 16:34 This is a hard book to find, 16:35 so I'm just gonna give you the reference 16:37 so you can write it down. 16:38 I'll find the verse and read it. 16:39 It's Zechariah 10:3. 16:42 Zechariah 10:3, this verse says, 16:48 I'm just going to have to put my glasses here, 16:49 because so I can't fake it any longer. 16:53 "Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, 16:55 and I punished the goats 16:56 for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock 16:58 the house of Judah, 17:00 and made them as his goodly horse in the battle." 17:03 Okay, God says, that horse is the House of Judah, 17:09 the House of Judah 17:10 is my goodly horse in the battle. 17:12 The horse is a symbol of God's people. 17:14 When Jesus comes in Revelation 19, 17:16 he is not riding little horse, he is coming with his angels. 17:19 And we know that he's gonna bring all of his people, 17:22 resurrect them, and they're gonna be with him. 17:24 So the symbol in here is from the Old Testimony. 17:27 The Old Testimony tells, "My house, 17:29 Judah is like my goodly horse in the battle. 17:32 Now here's what the symbol is in so significant, okay. 17:37 You have any horse's right here? 17:38 Oh, yeah. 17:39 Danny's got like.. 17:41 What does it take to ride them? 17:43 Don't look at me. Okay. 17:45 All right. 17:46 In order to ride a horse, 17:47 now it's not everyone has to just, 17:49 but most people you have to have bridle 17:51 and reins, right? 17:52 Okay? 17:54 We're the horse and God is asking us 17:56 to give him the reins of our heart. 17:59 He wants us to be connected with him, 18:01 so he can turn us to the left, 18:02 he can turn us to the right, he can hold us back. 18:04 He can gallop us forward. 18:06 In other words, Revelation 6:1-2 18:10 is a representation, 18:12 a symbolic representation of God and his people 18:14 connected together. 18:16 And when we connect with God, 18:18 we go forth conquering and to conquer. 18:22 Ivor, you have some thoughts on that? 18:23 Revelation 12:11, the Bible says, 18:26 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 18:28 and by the word of their testimony, 18:30 and they loved not their lives unto the death." 18:33 You know, The word of God, which when you look at this, 18:36 the word of their testimony 18:37 and you think of that double connection 18:39 that we often see in the Book of Revelation, 18:41 the word of God 18:43 and the testimony of Jesus Christ, 18:45 the word of their testimony is not their testimony, 18:47 it's a testimony of Jesus Christ. 18:50 So now, you know speaking about those reins, 18:53 you know, when you conquer something 18:56 you control it, it's, yours. 19:00 So Christ is going forth 19:02 with the word of God to conquer us. 19:06 So I was conquered back in, let's see, 1996, 19:11 that's when I was conquered. 19:13 Amen. Right? 19:14 So each one us can look and say, 19:15 "Yeah, I remember when I was conquered by that rider 19:18 on the white horse." 19:19 And the reason 19:21 that the word of God goes forth, remember, 19:23 in the context of the mount of the congregation, 19:26 how do we overcome? 19:28 It is by the word of God and by our testimony. 19:31 So God, Christ is basically in this seal, 19:35 he is fighting 19:37 on behalf of the mount of the congregation. 19:39 Those who abide by the word of God 19:41 are the one's who will be in that end time, 19:44 that final picture of the mount of the congregation 19:47 standing on Mount Zion, on the sides of the north. 19:50 Amen. 19:51 And I love the phrase, conquering and to conquer. 19:54 Yes. He conquered you in 1996. 19:56 Conquered me 1984, and he continues to conquer. 19:59 So everyday we give our hearts to Jesus, 20:02 and every day we give him our passions, 20:04 everyday we give him our anger, 20:05 everyday we give him our weaknesses, our failures. 20:08 And he takes those 20:09 and he implants in us his grace, and his love, 20:11 and his mercy, and his justice, and his righteousness, 20:14 and he conquers, he conquered, and he is conquering. 20:18 So what we were saying is that the first seal 20:22 actually parallels the first Church. 20:26 Just as a first Church was, you know, 20:28 the Church of that was in a condition 20:32 where there was a zealous, that white horse, 20:35 The word of God is what made them zealous. 20:37 Right? 20:39 So the rider on the white horse 20:40 represents a period in the early Church 20:42 where they were firmly based upon the word of God. 20:47 So in a historical sense, 20:49 we're looking at the time period 20:51 of the early Church. 20:52 But guess what that rider, 20:53 even though he began riding "symbolically", you know, 20:57 at the resurrection of Christ 20:59 and that the out pouring of the Holy spirit 21:01 on the day of Pentecost, 21:03 the rider is still riding to this day. 21:04 Amen. 21:06 The rider is still riding to this day. 21:07 And what we're gonna see with the seals 21:08 as we go through them 21:10 is that even though the seals have a beginning point, 21:13 each one of them actually takes us 21:15 straight down to the second coming. 21:18 Because guess what? 21:19 The rider on a white horse will be symbolically riding 21:23 all the way down to the second coming. 21:25 So these seals now overlap, 21:28 but they begin and then move down to the second coming 21:31 and we'll see that as we moved through the seals. 21:33 So the seals don't start and then stop. 21:36 Right. 21:38 Oh, I always thought it started 21:41 and then that was the end of that one 21:43 and then the second one came 21:45 and then that was the end of that. 21:46 Okay, let me clarify that so that we can get this clear, 21:49 because that's a really good point. 21:50 They start and stop in the sense 21:52 that they have a... 21:53 An historical... 21:54 Historical stopping and starting point. 21:56 This is where they are in history. 21:57 But they don't start and stop in relation of the principles 21:59 that they bring forth. 22:01 Unpack that a little bit. 22:02 So history, the early Apostolic Church, 22:05 in love, and let me just give you another symbol in here 22:08 because it says this white horse rider has a bow. 22:12 And that bow is an offensive weapon. 22:15 That's what we think of it as an offensive weapon, 22:16 talks honest, that is the word. 22:18 If you trace that word through the book of revelation 22:20 not the word itself, because it's only used here, 22:22 but the base from which it comes from, 22:24 it's used five times in Revelation 12. 22:27 And that word in Revelation 12 describes 22:29 the woman bringing forth the man-child. 22:32 The man-child was brought forth by the woman. 22:34 See, a bow brings forth things, 22:35 shoot an arrow, brings it forth. 22:37 So this bow connects with Revelation 12 22:40 that describes the woman, 22:41 the Church bringing forth Jesus. 22:44 So the early Church, all they talk about is Jesus. 22:48 All they bring forth is Jesus. "Stop talking about Jesus." 22:50 "Oh, no, I can't, can't stop talking about Jesus." 22:52 See, that's the victory right there, that's the key. 22:54 Now, this was the early church, this was their history. 22:57 They were filled with the Holy Spirit, 22:59 and they were everywhere, 23:00 and they're just talked about Jesus all the time. 23:01 That history began and ended. 23:03 In other words, that history, 23:05 the early Apostolic church 23:06 came to an end at a certain point 23:07 when pagan persecution start to pick up, 23:09 and that comes to another series. 23:11 And then dark age has picks up, 23:12 and that comes to another section of history. 23:14 And then you got another section out there. 23:16 But the idea of the people 23:19 being united with Christ over coming, 23:21 and always talking about Jesus will continue on. 23:24 That will continue on. 23:26 You can't get rid of that, you can't designate 23:29 that to a certain time in history, and say, oh, 23:31 it was in that time of history. 23:32 Today, we don't talk about Jesus, 23:33 today, we don't overcome. 23:35 They did that in the early Apostolic church. 23:36 You see what I am saying? 23:38 So the history is powerful 23:40 as long as you allow it to inform you 23:42 on your present experience. 23:43 Then that history is like, yeah, 23:45 in the early Apostolic church they did this, 23:48 and that was the time frame from the time the Christ, 23:51 you know, upward a spirit, until about AD, 23:54 you know, 9,100 or 8,100, that was the church history. 23:56 But the principles, the things that they did, 23:59 those best spirit that they had, 24:01 we wanna have that today, 24:02 that's gonna continue on to the very end of time. 24:03 Exactly, that's good. 24:05 And we'll see that in every, same with the churches. 24:07 Church is first love. 24:09 Oh, that was the early Apostolic church, 24:10 they lost their first love and everything go off them. 24:12 Can we lose our first love today? 24:14 Yeah, we can lose our first love today. 24:16 So in principle, we still see those things applying to us 24:19 but that church history is first and foremost, 24:21 it's the foundation. 24:22 And the meaning why that's important 24:24 is because in order to get the meaning 24:27 of what's going on there you have to have the history. 24:30 If you take that white horse and you say, 24:31 oh that's antichrist. 24:32 Well, then we don't get any meaning 24:34 of being connected with Christ, and overcoming, 24:36 and speaking about Jesus, 24:38 we don't get any, cause that's the antichrist. 24:39 So none of the history matters to us. 24:41 You see what I am saying? Right. 24:42 That's something in the future, doesn't matter. 24:43 It's the early Apostolic church, 24:45 if that's the history 24:46 then all of a sudden we can bring 24:47 meaning out of that, 24:49 that takes us down to our time 24:50 and really gets a practical and powerful. 24:51 Yeah. That's good. It is. 24:54 Now, God doesn't put these symbols in here 24:56 for no reason, 24:58 and each one of these words are significant. 25:00 For example, we talked about the crown. 25:02 I mean, we talked about bow, 25:04 representing our weapon to bring forth Christ. 25:06 And many times we're tempted 25:09 to take another method in the way that we teach 25:11 or preach or the way that we practice our religion. 25:14 We tempted to go in different direction 25:15 and that's what the other horses 25:17 tempt us to do is may be to persecute, 25:18 you know Christians were persecuted. 25:20 May be they compromise. 25:21 Oh, we compromise with a world, we can win the world, you see. 25:24 No, our weapon, our bow is Jesus. 25:28 It represents bringing Christ. 25:30 "I, if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me." 25:34 All. So, he is our weapon? 25:36 Yes. Jesus Christ then crucified. 25:39 That was what the early church did, 25:40 and that's what God is calling us to do. 25:42 So you know one of the ways you can look at it 25:45 in the term of in an idealistic senses today, 25:48 and will see this is as we go through the rest of the horses. 25:52 Every one of us owns a horse or will riding a horse. 25:57 Question is, what horse are you on? 25:59 Which one are we connected with? 26:01 Yeah, are you riding the white horse? 26:03 Or are you riding the red horse? 26:04 Or are you riding the black horse? 26:06 Or are you riding the pale horse? 26:08 So we'll see that in a sense of just principle, right? 26:13 Each of these has a certain time period 26:15 in which they're fulfilled, 26:16 but these principles continue to go on, 26:19 through out time and like I said, 26:23 the rider on the white horse does not stop riding. 26:27 You know, this gospel, because that's the gospel, 26:29 that's the word of God going forth. 26:31 And by the way, in Isaiah 8:16 it says, 26:36 "Seal the law among my disciples", 26:41 "seal the law among my disciples." 26:43 The word of God going forth is ultimately what seals us 26:49 and prepares us to be ready for the coming of Christ. 26:53 It's what makes us able to stand 26:56 when it's time to stand. 26:58 And all this that we're talking about now 26:59 is setting us up for the end of Revelation 6. 27:03 Now, we're running out of time, 27:05 so we want to remind our viewers a few things, 27:07 but I can't remember what we need to remind them of. 27:09 Can you remember? The questions. 27:13 If you have any questions, you know, 27:15 if they have any questions that they wanna ask, 27:18 they can send an email to SSS, 27:21 as in Salvation in Symbol and Signs, 27:24 @3abn.org. 27:26 It's amazing that I can remember, you know, 27:28 the Book of Revelation, all they said. 27:30 And the email address. That's all right. 27:32 That went very fast, we still got a lot to cover. 27:34 Even in the first horses a few more thoughts here 27:36 and we're gonna just unpack it, unpack it, unpack it. 27:38 But let's close with the word of prayer. 27:40 Will you close this, Yvonne? Yes, sure. 27:41 Father, what a blessing this is to be able to see 27:45 just how you have just put layer upon layer 27:48 in this book, 27:50 and in each verse and we can find you, 27:52 Lord Jesus, in each verse. 27:54 We thank you, we thank you, God, 27:56 that you are revealing yourself to us 27:59 through the Book of Revelation. 28:01 So we thank you, and praise you, 28:03 and bless your name, and we just pray 28:05 that we will be able to stand when you come, Lord Jesus. 28:09 In your name we pray, amen. 28:11 Amen. |
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