Participants: James Rafferty (Host), Ivor Meyers (Host), Yvonne Lewis, Jason Bradley
Series Code: SISS
Program Code: SISS000021A
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00:30 So we are moving right into our next horse.
00:34 There's four of them. 00:35 You got the white, the red, the black and the pale. 00:38 And all of these colors symbolize significant actions 00:43 or reactions that are working in the earth today. 00:46 So these four horses are riding through earth today, 00:48 but we've identified them 00:50 primarily first of as historic epics, 00:54 historic timeframes in the era of history, 00:57 going back to the apostolic age, 00:59 white horse, the purity of the gospel 01:01 and then coming into the persecution, 01:03 the red horse, the persecution that took place 01:06 as the gospel spread out throughout the world 01:08 and it became an issue with pagan Rome. 01:10 And now we're moving to a time of darkness, 01:13 a time when another transition takes place 01:16 in relation to Christianity 01:18 for Satan to try to work in and up and destroy 01:23 the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 01:25 So the black horse is gonna take us, 01:26 it's got another epic of time. 01:28 And we won't understand all the symbols here. 01:30 What we gonna find here as we read these verses is, 01:33 there's a little bit more here. 01:34 There's a little bit more for us to chew, 01:36 to bite often chew here, it might take us little longer 01:38 to get through some of these symbols and understand them. 01:40 But they will be, they are understandable. 01:43 So Jason, can you lead us out with the word of prayer 01:46 and then we get right into these verses, 01:48 read these verses. 01:49 Sure. 01:50 Dear heavenly Father, we ask that you be here with us 01:52 as we study about the black horse, 01:54 Lord, please bless the study 01:56 as You have all of our other ones, 01:58 in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:59 Amen. 02:01 Okay, let's read. 02:03 Jason, would you read for us verses. 02:05 What is it five and six, five and six. 02:08 Okay. 02:10 "And when he had opened the third seal, 02:11 I heard the third beast say, Come and see. 02:14 And I beheld, and lo a black horse, 02:18 and he that sat on him 02:20 had a pair of balances in his hand. 02:23 And I heard a voice 02:24 in the midst of the four beasts say, 02:26 a measure of wheat for a penny, 02:28 and three measures of barley for a penny, 02:30 and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. " 02:34 Okay, so this first symbol that we want to look at here 02:38 I think is the symbol of the color. 02:39 We've been doing that all the way through. 02:42 The white we connected in about a dozen places there, 02:45 it's connected to the righteousness of saints, 02:48 the righteousness of God. 02:49 So saw that in relation to Revelation 19:11 02:52 the white horse and its rider is Christ. 02:54 So we identified the horses. 02:55 Christ, His people connected His church, 02:58 connected with Him. 02:59 And then the red horse, we connected the red 03:02 with the dragon in Revelation 12:3, 03:04 the great red dragon, persecution again, 03:07 the connection was made there. 03:08 There are number of Bible verses 03:10 that we want to look at here. 03:12 And I'm thinking may be we can just kind of look at a couple. 03:15 One of them is found in Acts 26:18. 03:22 Acts 26:18. 03:24 The other one that I want us to look at is in John 3:19-21. 03:30 So, Yvonne, do you have the Acts one? 03:33 Yeah, Acts 26, which is that? 03:34 Yeah, Acts 26:18. 03:37 John 3. Okay. 03:38 John 3:19 to 21. 03:41 Okay, and... 03:43 As soon as you get there just, you just go ahead. 03:45 26:18 you said? Yeah. 03:47 Okay, "To open their eyes and to turn them 03:50 from darkness to light. " 03:52 Do you want me to do 17? 03:53 Yeah, do 17, you get it. 03:55 "Delivering thee from the people, 03:56 and from the Gentiles, 03:58 unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes 04:01 and to turn them from darkness to light 04:03 and from the power of Satan to God, 04:06 that they may receive forgiveness of sins 04:08 and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith 04:12 that is in me. " 04:13 Okay, so just real quick one, you want to comment on that. 04:16 Paul here is speaking about how the gospel, 04:19 the white horse is symbolizing the gospel is turning people 04:22 from darkness to light. 04:24 So here if we borrow this, 04:26 we bring this over to Revelation 6, 04:29 we have darkness and we have light. 04:32 And Jesus is saying that 04:34 this color is symbolic of the darkness 04:37 of not understanding the gospel of Jesus Christ. 04:40 Satan is going to try to keep us in darkness. 04:44 Now let's read John Chapter 3. 04:46 Verses 19 to 21. 04:48 "And this is the condemnation, 04:50 that light is come into the world, 04:52 and men loved darkness rather than light, 04:55 because their deeds were evil. 04:57 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, 05:00 neither cometh to the light, 05:01 lest his deeds should be reproved. " 05:03 Okay, so... 05:05 Oh, is that? Verse 21. 05:06 "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, 05:09 that his deeds may be made manifest, 05:11 that they are wrought in God. " 05:13 Now, do you noticed something significant here? 05:16 These verses are talking about people. 05:18 Talking about people specifically. 05:20 So we've already identified the horses 05:22 as representing people works. 05:24 So in this particular epic of time, 05:27 we've got horses. 05:29 The black horse representing people 05:31 who are rejecting light and moving into darkness, 05:34 who are rejecting light and holding on to darkness. 05:37 Basically that's what's taking place. 05:38 You've got people... 05:40 See every one of these horses represents people 05:42 and choices that we make. 05:44 And we'll see this even more as we get to the end of this 05:47 whole symbol or symbols summarize it all 05:50 in this incredible application of parallel 05:53 to one of the parables. 05:55 A parallel to a parable of Jesus in Matthew 13, 05:58 but right now we just want to emphasize 06:00 that sometimes when we think about horses, 06:03 we think all these horses, they must represent, 06:05 you know, these earthly beast 06:07 and the other that's going on in the earth and it's, 06:09 you know, the red horse that must be communism, 06:11 you know, and they come down and they kill, 06:12 you know, and take piece from the earth 06:14 and then disperse. 06:15 No, these horses represent people 06:17 and they represent very practical decisions 06:19 that we make in relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. 06:23 And so here we have people who are represented 06:26 as loving darkness rather than light. 06:28 And we have the gospel trying to take us 06:29 out of darkness into the light. 06:31 And these Bibles verses are helping us 06:34 to unravel that and understand, 06:36 you know, how that applies to this, to this age, 06:38 but we want to see it in relation to history. 06:41 How do we connect this to the churches 06:44 and the history that's taking place there? 06:45 What's happening in this period of time? 06:48 Let's test our students here. 06:51 Oh no. 06:53 Quiz? I'm serious. 06:54 We hate our quizzes. We hate that. 06:57 So but this one should be pretty easy. 06:58 Okay. 06:59 So this is seal number what? 07:04 This is number two, isn't it? 07:05 Number three. Three, three. 07:07 Right so, if we're looking at seal number three then, 07:09 if we need something that we can check it again, 07:13 so we can get a general idea 07:15 of what period we are talking about, 07:17 where would we go. 07:22 Would we look anywhere else in the Book of Revelation 07:24 for something that we have covered before? 07:27 The churches. The churches. 07:28 Excellent, you are doing great. The churches! 07:30 Yay! 07:34 The churches. Right. 07:37 And what church specifically 07:40 would we seek to find some kind of connection with? 07:44 What number? Three. 07:46 Number three, church number three. 07:47 And if we go back to the list of churches, 07:50 church number three is a church of Pergamos, 07:52 which is where we found compromise taking place. 07:55 And we saw that that time period 07:57 was beginning roughly around 321 A.D, 08:02 with the introduction of the Emperor Constantine, 08:06 and the compromise that began to happen 08:10 right after the persecutions of the second church period. 08:14 Okay. 08:15 So now we know, okay, this third horse, 08:19 this black horse would represent 08:21 compromise occurring 08:25 really at the time of this agreement 08:32 that is about to be made between Rome 08:36 as a nation and Christianity. 08:39 They began to come together 08:42 and mix paganism with Christianity 08:46 which would point us to the scales 08:48 that the rider on the black horse is holding, 08:51 balance, false balances. 08:52 False balances. 08:53 Yeah, we have a scale and you're trying to, 08:55 you know, you give a little and you take a little. 08:57 Right? Right. 08:58 Make it and that's what's going on here. 09:00 Hey, you know what? 09:01 We'll make some concessions, we'll make some agreements. 09:04 We'll mingle paganism with Christianity 09:06 so that everyone can be happy. 09:10 That's what begins to happen. 09:11 Yes. 09:12 And this is really interesting because as you bring that out, 09:15 there's a couple of other Bible verses 09:17 that I want us to refer to in relation to this. 09:19 The word balance here also means a yoke 09:25 or a burden or bondage, and it can refer, 09:28 you know in Mathew Chapter 11, 09:30 it talks about being yoked up with Christ. 09:33 But in other Bible verses, there's a negative connotation 09:37 to this yoke or this balance that's identified here. 09:39 And I think it's in a negative that we're seeing this. 09:42 Just like peace can refer to, 09:45 you know, the gospel of Jesus Christ. 09:47 The sword is negative in the last one. 09:50 It's a sword of persecution 09:52 but Jesus also can represent the sword. 09:54 So we have to understand the context, 09:56 that's why these principles are very important in layering 09:58 with the churches and the seals and then the trumpets, 10:01 helping us to make the connection. 10:02 So look at these Bible verses. 10:05 Look up Acts Chapter 15. 10:07 Yvonne, can you look up Acts 15:10? 10:10 And then, Jason, would you look up 10:12 Acts or Galatians 5:1? 10:15 Galatians 5:1 and Acts 15:10. 10:19 And as you're looking up Galatians 5:1, 10:23 I want to give a little bit of background 10:25 to what's happening in Galatia. 10:26 Do you have Acts 15 already? I do. 10:28 Let's start with that. 10:29 Okay, "Now therefore why tempt ye God, 10:31 to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, 10:34 which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" 10:37 Okay, Paul here is dealing not only with the yoke 10:41 that the Jews were trying to bring in 10:44 to the Christian church, 10:45 the yoke of the ceremonial, listen to the ceremony laws, 10:49 that they even themselves 10:51 were not able to keep and follow, 10:54 but he is also talking about legalism in a sense. 10:57 He is talking about the Judises, 10:58 they were coming in a sense undermining 11:01 the gospel of Jesus Christ 11:02 and wanting to force the Gentiles to be circumcised 11:05 and they keep these certain ceremonial laws 11:07 that really had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 11:10 And Galatians 5:1? 11:12 Galatians 5:1, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty 11:15 where with Christ have made us free, 11:18 and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage. " 11:21 Okay, so here, the yoke of bondage 11:26 is again coming in suddenly to the church 11:29 through this Judisers, 11:31 where they're wanting to observe 11:32 in the context of Galatians' 11:34 years and months and days, 11:37 all of these different holidays and formalisms. 11:41 Christian formalism that was trying to come in 11:44 to the early church 11:45 and that's exactly what we see taking place 11:47 during this darkness. 11:48 We see a mixture of paganism and forms and ceremonies 11:53 with the pure gospel of Christianity. 11:56 And so it's truly significant here 11:57 because the balance actually deepens the symbolism 12:01 of the black horse because in this case, 12:03 it is referring to these forms of legalism 12:06 that are eroding the gospel of Jesus Christ. 12:09 Slowly eroding, eating away at the gospel of Jesus Christ. 12:12 And end up coming to this fruition 12:15 in this incredible edifice of forms and ceremonies 12:20 that the church becomes down 12:23 toward the end of this period of time, 12:26 and something that the gospel has to break through 12:28 point by point. 12:30 We'll be looking at this point by point 12:31 and recover the brightness 12:32 and the purity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 12:34 And its freedom. Yeah, and the freedom. 12:36 Because the holy yoke, the whole idea 12:38 that there is a yoke here and legalism is a yoke, it is. 12:44 And so many people are just so bound up in legalism 12:49 that they don't know the freedom that comes 12:51 with actually knowing Christ in that. 12:53 And not having to be just so... 12:59 heavy-laden... 13:01 Yeah, havey-laden. With the burden. 13:02 Yeah. 13:04 And what's interesting about this is that, you know, 13:06 that the Bible here is talking about these pair of balances. 13:10 These are false balances, and let's just made that word 13:15 singular, false balance. 13:17 So this idea of, you know, hey, let's be balance man, 13:23 be careful because sometimes, you know, 13:25 whose definition of balance. 13:27 Right. You know what I'm saying. 13:28 So now in the early church you have this. 13:31 Look, you know, we don't have to keep God's law the way 13:35 that He wrote it. 13:36 Let's compromise a little, you know, 13:38 let the pagans do their thing, be balance. 13:40 You know, don't be so, and so, you know, 13:43 on a very practical personal level. 13:46 White horse, you're on fire, 13:49 you know, they have the gospel. 13:51 But then the red horse comes along, 13:52 persecute you, oh, man, 13:54 and so the tendency when we become persecuted is, 14:00 what can I do to stop this persecution, 14:03 I know, I'll compromise a little bit. 14:05 Let me just kind of cool that, 14:08 and that's what the devil is trying. 14:10 You know, on a very personal level, 14:11 devil wants to get you connected 14:13 with that dark holes. 14:15 So that now you're balancing, I mean, your false balance, 14:18 you're compromising, 14:20 and this is exactly what is happening 14:22 in this church period, 14:24 where they begin to compromise with paganism, 14:28 and the mansion here 14:31 that actually speaks about in that verse 6. 14:36 "I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts 14:39 saying a measure of wheat for a penny, 14:41 and three measures of barley for a penny. " 14:44 Okay. Yeah. 14:45 So what are bread, 14:48 you know, indeed barely and wheat 14:49 are ingredients for bread. 14:51 What is bread symbolized in the Bible? 14:54 Jesus often. 14:55 Symbolizes Christ, and it symbolizes His word. 14:58 Man does not live by bread alone, 15:01 thy words were found and I did eat them. 15:03 So you've got the table of showbread, 15:05 remember in the sanctuary symbolism, 15:07 and the table of showbread represents, 15:09 you know, you got the live witnessing, 15:10 you got the altar prayer, 15:12 you got the table of showbread, 15:13 partaking of the word of God. 15:15 Two stacks of 6, 66 books in the word of God. 15:20 So God is bringing these symbols alive 15:22 and He is pointed out, He will make a connection again 15:24 with the sanctuary in the sense with the bread. 15:27 What does it mean for a penny? 15:29 See, a penny was like a day's wages. 15:31 So it was costly to maintain that connection 15:35 with the word of God 15:37 and to have the word of God was costly 15:39 as this compromise began to take place. 15:41 Yeah, I see those two loaves, you know, I mean two stacks, 15:46 six loaves each as true balance. 15:49 Perfect true balance, you know, 15:51 so something by attacking the word of God 15:55 and creating a false balance with the word of God 15:59 has much significance 16:01 when we come back to the table of showbread, 16:02 where there's all these seals are unfolding. 16:05 So you think about the book of... 16:06 you know, it talks about this, 16:08 how much it cost for this bread and if there is a famine, 16:12 there is a famine and guess what, 16:13 Amos Chapter 8, I'm going to read it. 16:16 Amos 8: 11, it says 16:17 "Behold, the days comes say the Lord God, 16:20 that I will send a famine in the land, 16:22 not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, 16:25 but of hearing the words of the Lord. 16:28 And they shall wander from sea and sea 16:29 and from the north even to the east 16:31 they shall run to and fro 16:33 to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. " 16:36 What began to happen in this time period is this. 16:40 Taking away of the word of God to where the word of God, 16:44 the true word of God becomes scarce. 16:47 Now, want you to think about this. 16:50 Remember we talked about, 16:51 because something very specific happened in 321 A.D. 16:56 And that was actually the first Sunday law 16:59 that was passed by Constantine. 17:00 I remember we talked about how the table of showbread 17:03 was changed out every Sabbath. 17:07 So we saw that look, 17:10 the things that are going to be the focus of the seal, 17:13 of the seals are the word of God, 17:15 the mount of the congregation and the Sabbath. 17:18 So under the white horse, white horse goes forth 17:22 with the true word of God and the Sabbath, you know, 17:25 that's what set Christians aside in the yoke 17:28 so they were actually persecuted under the red horse 17:31 because they were keeping the Sabbath. 17:33 It was a heavy Sabbath persecution 17:35 and because of this, some Christians began to say, 17:38 we need to distance ourselves from the Sabbath 17:40 because it's bringing persecution 17:42 and so under Constantine, 17:45 you have this compromise, right? 17:47 Now remember this, I want to show this, 17:49 let's get back to the third church, 17:52 which is what you guys pointed out, okay. 17:54 Remember how we talked about how Lucifer wanted to sit 17:57 on the sides of the north, 17:59 over the mount of the congregation. 18:01 Well, this is third seal. 18:03 I want you to go back, let's just go back 18:05 very quickly to the third church, 18:06 Revelation Chapter 2 18:09 and let's look at verse 12 and 13, 18:12 and let's see 12 and 13. 18:17 Could you, one of you read that for us verse 12 and 13. 18:20 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, 18:22 These things saith he which hath the sharp sword 18:25 with two edges, I know thy works, 18:28 and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. " 18:31 All right, stop right there. 18:32 Even where what? 18:34 Satan's seat. Satan's seat. 18:36 Third church, third seal, 18:39 Sunday law, historically. 18:42 So Satan is attempting to take his seat 18:47 over the mount of the congregation. 18:50 Worship. Wow. 18:51 Worship. 18:52 Wow. 18:54 He is sitting in a sense we can say 18:56 he is attempting to sit on the sides of the north 18:59 over the mount of the congregation, 19:02 and using his authority to change the Sabbath. 19:08 Yeah. 19:09 It was the priest that changed the table of showbread 19:12 every Sabbath. 19:13 So now when he sits, saying, yeah, 19:15 I have authority to do this. 19:16 I'm sitting over the mount of the congregation. 19:18 I have authority to change God's law, 19:22 which brings us right back to the Book of Daniel, 19:24 which we will get into later, but you see this connections 19:27 that let you know this is definitely 19:29 where we are in history, 19:30 the fact that Satan's seat would be mentioned 19:32 in connection with the third seal 19:36 is absolutely profound 19:37 and important for us to understand. 19:39 It really is, and you know that history 19:41 again informs us today. 19:43 When we look back at the history we say, 19:44 okay, here's where it applies. 19:46 Then we take the principles and we apply to us today. 19:49 We don't necessarily see Satan doing the same thing exactly 19:54 but we see the same principles taking place. 19:56 So Sunday law, famine for the word of God, 20:01 the true word of God is scarce. 20:03 And there's this famine and people aren't understanding 20:06 really what the word of God teaches 20:07 because we have these transition taking place 20:10 and the word of God 20:11 doesn't become the centre any longer. 20:13 So how does that apply to us today? 20:15 Now, I want to share with you a couple of 20:17 bible worship versions 20:19 that I think bring this home to us, in our time. 20:23 What we see taking place today, by the way, 20:24 this is really interesting 20:26 because recently I was given a bible to read, 20:30 it's called the... 20:35 I'm now forgetting the name of it, 20:36 but it's the bible that's written in sequence, 20:39 everything is in, kind of like the Chronological Bible, 20:41 Chronological Bible. 20:43 And I was like, this is great, you know. 20:45 'Cause when you reading Mathew, 20:46 you don't just read Mathew, you have Mathew, Luke, John, 20:48 Mathew, Mark, Luke, John. 20:49 First chapter, second chapter. 20:51 It puts it all in there, 20:52 everything's in chronological order. 20:54 So I started Genesis, start reading through, 20:55 and it was filled with footnotes, 20:57 and I was like, oh. 20:58 And so I'm reading through, and reading these footnotes, 21:00 and I started noticing, wait a minute, 21:04 theses footnotes are actually undermining the word of God. 21:09 They're actually undermining the word of God. 21:11 I'm thinking, why are they doing this? 21:12 So I stopped reading the footnotes. 21:14 And then I realize as I went through there, 21:15 I realize, you know the bible is the best selling book 21:21 in the world. 21:23 Yes, still, right. Still. 21:26 It's not on the New York best sellers list 21:27 because it be there, 21:29 it be on the topsy all the time. 21:30 It's a best seller. 21:32 And because of this, it's a really good way 21:34 for people to make money who publish books. 21:37 However, in order to make money on the bible, 21:40 we have to have your own version, 21:41 because every version is copyrighted 21:42 and you can't make money on someone else's. 21:44 So this is one of the reasons 21:46 why there are so many new versions of bible. 21:48 So the Chronological Bible, it's not that these guys, 21:51 these people are really interested in, 21:53 its a new way to make some money on the bible. 21:56 Here's a new Bible. 21:57 And we'll put whatever footnotes in there 21:59 we want to put in there. 22:00 They can be skeptical footnotes, 22:01 they can be undermining God's word, 22:03 but this is a Chronological Bible, 22:04 'you got to get this bible and read the... ' 22:06 That's the point. Wow. 22:07 Okay now, here's the danger. 22:10 Satan is very subtle the way he works. 22:12 Another version of bible, another version of bible, 22:14 another version of Bible, has to be changed 22:16 10 to15 percent from previous version. 22:17 You can only change the bible so much 22:19 before you're going out of the Greek, 22:20 and you are going into whatever. 22:21 So let me just, not long ago, 22:24 I really got interested 22:26 in a version of the bible called The Message. 22:28 Yeah. 22:29 Oh man, down to earth, 22:31 easy to read, easy to understand. 22:32 I was preaching, I was telling people, 22:34 "You got to get this version, you got to get this version. " 22:36 And then you know, I mean, this was something that... 22:39 'cause I used to be King James only, 22:41 you know, and I kind of balance, 22:43 I am hoping balance from that, you know. 22:45 But now I am swinging over here, I am going, 22:47 "Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. " 22:48 And so I said, "I'm going to put this to the litmus test. " 22:51 So I decided to go in The Message Bible 22:53 to some of the verses that I used to test 22:56 it's authenticity. 22:58 So I went to, first verse I went to is Revelation 1:10. 23:03 Revelation 1:10, 23:04 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. " 23:06 So let me read it to you from The Message Bible, 23:09 "I was in the Spirit", excuse me, 23:12 "It was Sunday 23:14 and I was in the Spirit, praying. " 23:16 It was Sunday. 23:19 We brought out this idea of this transition to Sunday, 23:23 scarcity to the word of God. 23:24 Today, there is no scarcity of the word of God, 23:26 it's every where. 23:27 Isn't it? 23:28 I mean, you can get the Bibles Galore, 23:30 you can get The Chronological Bible, 23:31 you can get The Message Bible. 23:33 But when you get these bibles, what are you reading, 23:35 and is this really what the bible is teaching? 23:37 Now I quoted The Message Bible. 23:39 By the way, The Message Bible now sits on the heretic shelf. 23:41 Everyone should have the heretic shelf. 23:43 Student of the Bible, 23:44 you need to have a heretic shelf. 23:45 I still utilize it, but I've got this caution. 23:49 But as I started studying this, 23:51 I want to just, I want to find 23:52 any and every bible version I can find 23:55 and read this verse in there. 23:56 So the Expanded Bible, "It's the Lord's day, 23:59 probably a reference to the first day of the week, 24:00 which is Sunday. " 24:02 That's the Expanded Bible. 24:04 And then I found another version of bible 24:06 which is called the Holman Christian Bible, 24:10 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. " 24:11 Footnote: Sunday. 24:13 Then I found the English translation of The Voice, 24:15 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day 24:17 (the first day of the week)," which is Sunday. 24:19 Then I found another five, 24:21 no, six translation of the bible, 24:24 including the Spanish one, 24:25 and I won't embarrass my Spanish teacher 24:28 from high school in trying to read that. 24:30 Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, first day of the week, 24:32 first day of the week, first day of the week. 24:33 So what we see in that history of that transformation 24:36 that took place by Constantine's law, 24:38 we see the same thing taking place today, 24:40 a subtle transition, pluralism. 24:44 So that when I do a bible study now with someone and they say, 24:47 "Oh, the Sabbath, well, I go to church on Sunday." 24:50 "Well, Sunday actually isn't in Bible." 24:51 "Oh, it's in my Bible. 24:53 It's in my Bible, Revelation 1:10." 24:54 "Well, Revelation 1:10, you know, The Message Bible, 24:56 that's not really based on the Greek." 24:58 "Well, there were scholars, the scholars did that. 25:01 They know what they are talking about. 25:03 I trust the scholars. 25:04 If they think that's a good translation, 25:05 I got six other translations by the way. 25:07 If all these people think, 25:08 if all these bible have Sunday in there, 25:10 the first day of the week in there, 25:11 its good enough for me. 25:14 That's where we are today. Yeah. 25:16 So that history is coming forth. 25:17 Now, notice what it says here, in a context of this says, 25:20 "Hurt not the oil and the wine." 25:22 I know we're not going to have enough time 25:24 to cover the oil and the wine, 25:25 but we need to cover this in detail 25:26 because this connection here between the oil and wine, 25:30 and the importance of the bible, 25:33 the word of God and the authority of that word, 25:36 and the fact that it should not be alter. 25:38 Because when you get to the end of Revelation, 25:39 you remember, let's read those bible verses. 25:41 Jason, can you read for us 25:43 Revelation 22:18? 25:49 Sure. 25:53 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words 25:55 of the prophecy of this book, 25:57 If any man shall add unto these things, 25:59 God shall add unto him the plagues 26:02 that are written in this book." 26:03 And 19. 26:04 "And if any man shall take away 26:06 from the words of the book of this prophecy, 26:09 God shall take away his part out of the book of life, 26:12 and out of the holy city, and from the things 26:14 which are written in this book." 26:16 That is serious. Wow. 26:18 That is serious. 26:19 God is saying, don't add, don't take away. 26:22 You add words to this, you take words away from this, 26:25 well, here we have six bible versions, 26:28 six modern bible versions and all of those versions 26:30 by the way, are post 2000. 26:32 All of them were translated after the year 2000. 26:34 Interesting. 26:36 Okay, so they are all modern, that are changing, 26:40 that are adding to the word of God. 26:42 They are putting in definitions of the Lord's day 26:45 that aren't actually in the text, 26:47 they are not in the Greek. 26:48 But they are in their now, 26:49 and now people are reading bibles 26:51 that basically saying, 26:52 as never before that Sunday is in the Bible, 26:56 it's the Lord's Day. 26:58 So we're moving now back toward this compromise 27:02 that we saw in those dark ages. 27:04 The black horse is still riding. 27:05 The black horse is still riding and we're there. 27:07 And people, we need to be aware of this, 27:08 we really need to be aware of this. 27:10 So we're under a minute and we got a close out. 27:13 But we want to remind people... 27:16 What do we remind people? 27:17 If they have any questions, 27:19 just send their emails to sss@3abn.org 27:23 as a Salvation, and Symbols, and Signs. 27:25 Salvations, and symbols, and signs. 27:27 Close this out, Yvonne, with the word of prayer, 27:29 would you? 27:30 Father, we just thank you so much 27:32 for this studying lord 27:33 and this Revelation of your spirit, 27:36 your love for us. 27:38 And we just thank you Lord God 27:40 for all that you do and for being in our lives. 27:43 Continue to bless, guide, and direct us. 27:45 We pray in Jesus' name. 27:46 Amen. Amen. 27:47 Amen. That went very fast. 27:49 It did. 27:50 We got to hit the oil and wine. 27:51 Now, just real quick, before we go though, 27:53 the oil and the wine, 27:54 oil represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit 27:56 and wine represents the blood of Jesus Christ. 27:58 We're going to look at some bible versus, 28:00 but we really need to emphasize that because this is the key 28:03 to escaping the darkness, the compromise. 28:06 It's to be annoyed with the Holy Spirit 28:09 and not letting men teach us but the God teachers, 1 John, 28:11 and then to be depending on the blood of Christ, 28:14 because that's also 28:15 what the compromise came in with, 28:16 with the compromise and the gospel. 28:18 Sweet. |
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