Participants: Ivor Myers (Host), James Rafferty (Host), Jason Bradley, Yvonne Lewis
Series Code: SISS
Program Code: SISS000042A
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00:30 Okay we're in Revelation 10
00:32 and we have given a basic overview, 00:35 we've gone through the chapter, the verses, 00:37 we've kind of laid out the connection between Revelation 00:40 chapter 10 and Daniel 10 and 12, 00:43 and we've shown that they connected together, 00:45 these two books connected here and it's really cool because 00:48 the book of Daniel was sealed at the end of his writing 00:51 and now it's open, 00:53 it was sealed for certain periods of time 00:55 and now those times are no longer... 00:57 so the angel that sealed the book... 00:58 went through certain motions... 01:00 came to Daniel glorified... stood on the waters of the river 01:03 had his hands to heaven, sware by him that lives forever, 01:05 that this book will be sealed 01:07 for a time, times and half a time 01:08 then the same thing happens in Revelation chapter 10 01:11 we have this mighty angel... 01:13 stands on the earth and on the sea 01:15 holds his hands up to heaven, 01:17 sweareth by Him that lives forever and ever... 01:19 that time should be no longer and that's why the book's open 01:21 in Revelation 10:1... the book is open... 01:23 it's unsealed... and then there's these seven thunders... 01:26 this message... this perfect message from God 01:30 that comes out of the book of Daniel 01:32 that Daniel or John can't write 01:33 and later he was told to go and eat the book 01:37 so it's not like... "you can't have the message" 01:39 it's like... "Just don't write it out... 01:40 it's already written in Daniel, 01:42 you need to go to the book of Daniel 01:44 and consume it, eat it, assimilate it 01:46 and it will be a sweet experience 01:48 in your mouth... 01:50 but in your belly... it's going to be bitter" 01:53 and that's what we need to do. 01:54 Ivor: Yeah, I think they're like two bookends of one vision 01:58 you have the angel appearing at the beginning of the bookend 02:02 so that will be... at the beginning of the 1,260... 02:04 that's not when he appears but the... 02:07 it talks about the book being sealed for that long. 02:10 At the end of that vision, the angel appears again 02:13 and says, "Okay, this is the end of the vision" 02:15 his face is like the sun... 02:18 this is going to connect us with the fact 02:20 that we are just coming out of the Dark Ages 02:22 and there's about to be light revealed to the people of God 02:27 and the light that is revealed is... I mean... it's light... 02:32 and that light actually is going to help 02:34 the people of God be affirmed in their prophetic understanding. 02:38 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 02:39 Jason: Break down the "sweet in the mouth bitter in the belly. " 02:41 Yvonne: Well, before we do that, let's pray. 02:43 Ivor: Yes. 02:45 Yvonne: Let's get... yeah, but that's a good question, Jay. 02:47 Ivor: Yes, that's a "sweet" question. 02:48 Yvonne: It's a sweet question. 02:50 James: Sweet... 02:51 Ivor: Let's pray... "Heavenly Father, 02:53 we want to ask that you would guide us 02:54 as we continue to go through the book of Revelation, 02:56 we pray that you'll give us understanding 02:59 and we pray that you would open our eyes 03:01 that we may behold wondrous things out of thy book... 03:03 in Jesus' name we pray, amen. " 03:05 All: "Amen... " 03:07 James: All right, what's your question for us? 03:10 Jason: So, when it says, "Sweet in the mouth... 03:13 bitter in the belly... " what does that mean? 03:16 James: So basically you have, 03:18 first of all... the book of Daniel... 03:20 so it's talking about God's Word... 03:22 and I love this idea because 03:25 it's actually describing something that 03:27 a particular prophetic Movement went through 03:31 but it's also speaking about our own experiences, 03:32 it's very practical... 03:34 for example... when I first gave my heart to Jesus, 03:37 it was a sweet experience... I was in love with Jesus, 03:41 but in accepting the gospel and seeing God change my life, 03:45 there were some difficulties that I went through, 03:48 for example, with friends, I lost friends over it 03:51 and that wasn't sweet... that was bitter. 03:53 You know, to lose friends, to find people that... 03:56 that because you're different now 03:57 and that you don't do the things you used to do, 03:59 they no longer want to hang around with you 04:01 and be with you and they're uncomfortable around you 04:03 that's a bitter experience... so the sweet-bitter experience 04:06 you see that... all through the Scriptures with God's people. 04:09 It's the sweetness of accepting His Word... 04:11 and in the bitterness of the disappointments that come 04:14 as we go through various experiences in life, 04:16 but more specifically here... 04:18 there is an experience that a group of people have 04:21 based upon understanding the prophecies of the book of Daniel 04:26 and just in a nutshell, before we go there, 04:29 the idea is... is that the book of Daniel was sealed 04:32 not because God didn't want people to know about it, 04:35 but rather, because, it couldn't totally be comprehended, 04:38 because it was so far ahead of its time... 04:40 Yvonne: Hmmm... 04:41 James: So Daniel was trying to figure out 04:43 how does this book relate to what's happening today 04:46 and God told them basically, 04:48 "Ah... it's not for... a long time ahead... 04:52 many days in the future, 04:54 your people in the end of time 04:55 are going to understand these prophecies" 04:56 and so Daniel is told to seal it up... 04:59 then when we get to that time period, 05:01 in the end... after the 1,260 and the 1,335 and the 1,290 05:04 those time prophecies are... have ended... 05:06 we get to the place where Daniel's book is actually open 05:10 Revelation 10 where he's standing in his lot, 05:12 bearing his testimony... it says there in Daniel 12:13 05:16 and that causes people to study it 05:19 and as they start studying it 05:21 they come to this conclusion about this time prophecy 05:24 I understand to be the 2,300 days 05:27 and they see it as a day for a year 05:29 as beginning in 457... 05:31 as ending with the cleansing of the Sanctuary 05:34 and they come to a conclusion 05:35 that the cleansing of the Sanctuary 05:37 must be when Christ comes back to the earth 05:38 to cleanse the earth with fire 05:40 because the Sanctuary is the earth, 05:41 at that point they have no clue 05:43 there's a Sanctuary in heaven according to Hebrews 05:45 there's a Sanctuary in heaven, they're not thinking... 05:48 the whole Christian world basically believes 05:50 that the earth is the Sanctuary 05:51 so they proclaim this message based on the 2,300 days 05:55 that in 1844... Jesus is going to return 05:57 and cleanse the earth... and it's a sweet... 05:59 they have a sweetness... ah sweet... 06:01 it's so clear... the delineation begins and ends where it does 06:06 that's set... they're clear on that... 06:07 they're just wrong on the event 06:09 and so they have the sweet experience... 06:11 they sacrifice everything... friends... 06:12 everything that's dear to them they leave it all behind 06:14 and they're waiting for Jesus and He doesn't return 06:17 and they go through a bitter disappointment. 06:19 That's the short and the long of it, 06:21 that's the basic summary of it. 06:23 That's the sweet-bitter experience. 06:24 Ivor: Let me, again, try to put this into perspective 06:28 and we're going to look at 06:29 what's happening in Revelation 10... 06:30 this sweet and bitter experience... 06:32 this bitter experience of 1844 and what that meant 06:38 to God's people at the time 06:39 so, let's go back a little bit and remember that... 06:45 just before this you have the Dark Ages 06:48 okay, this is the Papacy... dominating... 06:50 okay, one of the things that the Bible tells us 06:53 that the Papacy would do during the Dark Ages, 06:56 is found in Daniel 7:25 06:59 where it says that this little horn 07:01 "that he shall think to change times and laws" 07:07 okay, so that word, "times" 07:09 is used elsewhere in the book of Daniel 07:13 and is referred... and in Revelation as well... 07:15 we're looking at the little power ruling for how long? 07:18 Time, times and half a time... okay... 07:21 now why is that significant? 07:23 Because Martin Luther and many of the other 07:27 Protestant Reformers began to identify 07:30 the Papacy through this time prophecy, 07:33 "Wait a minute, a day for a year, 07:35 if that is Biblical 07:38 then this power is not ruling for three-and-a-half years, 07:40 or 1,260 days... it's ruling for 1,260 years... 07:45 hey, there is only one power 07:47 that has been ruling for centuries and it's the Papacy" 07:52 so the Papacy was like, 07:54 "Well, man, we are losing people 07:56 because of this, what are we going to do?" 07:58 So in the 1500s... they have this Council 08:00 called the "Council of Trent" 08:01 and the Council of Trent... 08:02 they decide to come up with two new schools of prophecy 08:06 we talked about this in one of our first programs, 08:08 Preterism and Futurism... 08:10 James: Alcasar and Ribera. 08:12 Ivor: Absolutely and these guys 08:14 came up with these schools that said, 08:15 "Hey, these prophecies are all in the future" 08:17 Futurism... 08:18 or they're all in the past... Preterism... 08:20 but in order to do that... guess what they had to change? 08:22 James: Times... 08:24 Ivor: Times... Yvonne: Hmmm... 08:26 Ivor: "This is not a- day-for-a-year... 08:27 what are you talking about? 08:28 This is a day-for-a-day... " so there is this deep argument, 08:32 "Is the day-for-a-year principle even legitimate? 08:35 Come on, look, it's not so. " 08:37 So, when 1798 is approaching, 08:42 and these scholars are saying, "Well, you know what? 08:47 if the day-for-a-year principle is right, 08:51 then... because we don't really have 08:53 any way to prove it, we're just assuming 08:55 but if it's right, then guess what? 08:58 by 1798... the Papacy should receive a deadly wound. " 09:01 And guess what happened? 09:03 1798... the Papacy receives a deadly wound. 09:05 James: It could hardly wait to get there 09:06 because it was February of 1798... 09:08 Ivor: Absolutely. 09:09 James: Let's pop in there... let's do this. 09:11 Yvonne: Wow! 09:12 Ivor: Wow! but the Bible says this, 09:14 "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, 09:16 let ever word be established. " 09:17 So, you know what God does? 09:19 "Because, hey, maybe that was just chance... " 09:21 Yvonne: Ah ha... ah ha... 09:23 Ivor: You know what else he does? 09:24 He gives them the prophecy of the 391 years and 15 days. 09:30 So, now, when 1840 rolls around, they're like... 09:34 see, at 1798... after 1798... what this did, 09:38 remember, the book is now opened now they're like, 09:41 "We get it... a day-for-a-year principle... 09:44 okay, it fits... " 09:45 James: That's with the 2,300 too. 09:47 Ivor: That's right... that's when they began studying 09:49 the 2,300-day prophecy and they're like, 09:50 "We're getting it, we're getting it... " 09:51 so, if that's true... then, 1844 must also be true, 09:56 right, so now they're moving along... 09:58 in the mouth of two or three witnesses, 10:01 guess what God does? 10:02 He now gives them the 1840 prophecy 10:03 and now they're like, 10:05 "Oh yeah, we know for sure now. " 10:07 Yvonne: "And we're doing it right 10:09 because we can confirm it. " 10:10 Ivor: "We're doing it right... we can confirm it... 10:11 we can point to 1840... we can point to 1798" 10:16 so, now when 1844 rolls around, and by-the-way, 10:20 the Christian world is like, "Whoa, there's something to this 10:24 day-for-a-year principle I mean, look, look... " 10:26 but in the mouth of two... "Maybe it's coincidence" 10:28 the second time it happens, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... " 10:32 now, guess what happens when 1844 disappoints? 10:36 All of a sudden they're like, "Wait a minute... " 10:40 James: We were on a roll here. 10:42 Ivor: "Were we wrong, was something going on?" 10:45 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... James: Yeah. 10:46 Ivor: And it's amazing because what really came into question 10:49 was this day-for-a-year principle... 10:51 And this is the key thing is that... 10:54 after 1844... all those people 10:56 that were on the verge of accepting this prophecy... 10:59 they turned and rejected the day-for-a-year principle. 11:02 James: Hmmm... 11:03 Ivor: And as a result, they went back to Preterism 11:05 or Futurism... only one Movement... 11:08 only one people actually said, 11:10 "Wait a minute... wait a minute" 11:12 so in Revelation chapter 10, 11:14 when the angel gives him this book... 11:16 and says, "Look, you're going to have a disappointment 11:19 but don't worry about it, I'm showing you 11:23 that what you did not understand I've already prophesied it, 11:28 you are right, the day-for-a-year principle 11:31 it is accurate... you just got the event wrong 11:34 and I didn't tell you the event... 11:37 'Angels, don't write it... '" James: Hmmm... hmmm. 11:39 James: "John, don't write it. " 11:40 Ivor: "John, don't write it" right, 11:42 "John, don't write that part" you know... 11:43 "I need to have this happen 11:45 because what this is going to do is... " 11:47 how many of you remember the story of Gideon? 11:49 When Gideon had the... he had this great big army 11:51 James: Yeah... Yvonne: Yeah... 11:53 Ivor: All right... God was like, "Yeah, but you know? 11:54 Some of these guys aren't ready so whoever... " 11:57 and He brings it down from like, 21,000 or whatever 11:59 down to the 300... 12:01 1844 reveals the 300... 12:04 that small group of people 12:07 because remember, I mean... so many were disappointed, 12:10 it was literally only a handful of people 12:13 and were it not for Revelation chapter 10, 12:16 that would have been it, everyone would have been... 12:18 so, I'm just going to share one more verse with you 12:21 and then we're going to come back to 2,300 days, 12:22 let's go back to Daniel chapter 12 12:24 and I'll show you this very quickly, one verse... 12:26 James: Yeah, do it and just in saying, 12:28 I don't think we should touch the... 12:30 do the 2,300 days right now, 12:31 I think we should do it when we do Daniel... 12:32 Ivor: Yeah, I've been thinking. James: Okay... 12:34 Ivor: Yeah, we've... we've done half... 12:36 James: Yeah, and I've got a good way for us to segue from this. 12:39 Ivor: So, Daniel 10 and notice this, Daniel... 12:44 I'm sorry, Daniel 12... 12:45 Daniel 12 and verse... 12:49 verse 8... so it says, 12:53 "And I heard, but I understood not: 12:54 then I said, O my Lord, 12:56 what shall be the end of these things? 12:57 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: 12:59 for the words are closed up 13:00 and sealed till the time of the end. " 13:02 1798... right? James: Hmmm... hmmm... 13:04 Ivor: So after that... look at the very next verse, 13:07 "Many shall be... " what? Yvonne: Purified... 13:09 Ivor: Give me another word for "purified. " 13:10 Yvonne: Cleansed... 13:12 Ivor: Cleansed... huh? 13:14 "Many shall be purified, and made white... " 13:16 wow, you know what? That reminds me... 13:19 James: And tried... 13:21 Ivor: Tried... what does it mean to be tried? 13:23 It means "to be judged" it means "to be tested" 13:25 and made white... huh? 13:26 isn't it under the 5th trumpet? 13:29 James: Yes... white robes were sealed.. 13:31 Ivor: White robes were given to every one of them. 13:33 This is pointing us to the judgment... 13:37 right, purified... white robes... 13:39 judged or tried... now look at this... 13:41 "but the wicked shall do wickedly: 13:43 and none of the wicked shall understand; 13:46 but the wise shall understand. " 13:50 James: Hmmm... hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm... 13:51 Ivor: What happened in 1844? "Those who truly... " 13:55 those who were motivated by some other... 13:57 "Oh, is Jesus coming?" "Oh, well we'd better get ready, 13:59 I mean, I don't believe with love in my heart 14:00 but we'd better get ready" 14:02 those who really desired the coming of Christ, 14:05 were separated from those who were 14:07 kind of going along with the Movement 14:09 just because they thought, 14:11 "Oh yeah, He's coming, I'd better get ready. " 14:12 Yvonne: Right... 14:13 Ivor: So, the wicked did not understand... 14:15 but the wise understood. Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 14:17 Ivor: They had a sweet experience in their mouth 14:19 but it was bitter in their belly 14:20 then they went back and said, "What went wrong?" 14:23 "Oh, that's the missing... that's what we didn't hear... " 14:26 "That's the... and even the... " 14:29 so we can know that even the disappointment 14:32 was God ordained... because God said, 14:35 "John, don't write that part. " James: Yeah. 14:37 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... Ivor: "Don't write that part. " 14:38 Yvonne: That is so interesting because 14:41 honestly, I've always wondered, like... 14:44 "Was it a false prophecy?" I mean, you know, just... 14:50 to be upfront... was it a false prophecy 14:53 and was this all based on a false prophecy? 14:57 But to know that God made provision for that. 15:01 Ivor: We need to go to the 70 weeks. 15:03 James: We got another parallel, that's what we got to do... 15:06 so, so, when you bring this up, here's another point 15:08 that I think is really powerful with the 2,300 days 15:11 is broken into two parts... 15:12 and again, we're not going to go into the details 15:14 in this program, we're going to do it in Daniel 15:16 but we're still going to look at the big picture 15:18 and the parallels... so the first part is the 70 weeks, 15:21 and that 70-week part of the 2,300 days... 15:23 applies to Christ, 15:25 His disciples and their disappointment 15:29 and then you've got the latter half of the prophecy 15:32 that's connected to it that applies to the Millerites 15:34 and their disappointment 15:36 and there are incredible parallels... 15:37 first of all we need to recognize, 15:39 I'll just make the first parallel... 15:40 it was predicted the disciples would forsake Christ... 15:45 it was predicted that they would forsake Christ, 15:47 that was a prophecy just like it was predicted 15:49 that you would have a sweet experience 15:50 but you go through a bitter disappointment 15:52 the disciples... Jesus said, 15:54 "All of you are going to forsake me tonight 15:56 you're all going to forsake me" 15:57 that was a prophecy that Christ gave 15:58 "but afterwards I'm going to go before you to Jerusalem, 16:00 I'm going to lead you before you get into Galilee," 16:03 so, the disciples went through a bitter disappointment 16:06 even though God told them what was going to happen 16:09 over and over and over again, Jesus said to them, 16:11 "I'm going to go to Calvary I'm going to go to Calvary, 16:13 I'm going to go to Calvary... I'm going to go to Calvary" 16:15 over and over and over again, He told them that 16:17 but they still didn't get it and so, it was so sweet, 16:22 Jesus was coming into Jerusalem and they were... triumphal entry 16:25 and they were, "Hosanna, yes " and "this is the Messiah. " 16:27 Ivor: Sweet in the mouth. James: Sweet, sweet, sweet, 16:30 three days later... devastated... 16:32 everyone that was proclaiming His... Him as the Messiah 16:37 and were throwing their coats down and their... 16:38 all those people... hundreds... thousands of people, gone... 16:41 the disciples... hiding in a room, 16:44 going through this bitter disappointment 16:46 and God purged out all of that great multitude 16:49 and brought it down to just a handful of faithful 16:52 added to their number, poured out His Spirit... pooh... 16:55 exploded... and they went to the world with this message. 16:58 So you see the parallels there in that one area. 17:00 Ivor: I want to add to that parallel because 17:02 what was supposed to be the death knell for the disciples, 17:08 became the very cornerstone of their Movement. 17:10 Yvonne: Hmmm... James: Good, good, good. 17:12 Ivor: In other words, it was like, 17:13 you know, "Yeah, Jesus died... now what?" 17:15 Guess what? The bitter experience... 17:18 became... they never let go of that bitter experience... 17:20 that bitter experience was actually sweet. 17:22 Yvonne: Hmmm... 17:23 Ivor: So that became the very... 17:25 they weren't like, trying to hide it... 17:26 "Oh yeah, know that... yeah but we still... " 17:30 no, no, no, no... they were like... 17:31 they were pointing people to that very thing... 17:34 that was so bitter to them, it became the cornerstone 17:37 1844... that bitter disappointment 17:40 became the cornerstone... now here's the... 17:42 amazing thing... when it became the cornerstone, 17:46 they were like, "Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, 17:48 we thought Jesus was to coming to this earth to be a king 17:52 but no... He's entered into a heavenly Sanctuary. " 17:54 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 17:56 Ivor: And, the people of the time, 17:58 "Oh, wow! how convenient... 18:01 face-saving prophecy, right? 18:05 Now He's in the heavenly Sanctuary that we can't see 18:08 hmmm... hmmm... " 18:09 James: "All of us can see that structure 18:11 we got... earthly Sanctuary right here, 18:12 that's where we should be going... " 18:14 Ivor: Exactly, so, they were saying, 18:16 "Yeah, you guys are just making this up to save face. " 18:18 Yvonne: Right... 18:20 Ivor: To save face... 18:21 James: "You stole His body... He wasn't resurrected. " 18:23 Ivor: "Yeah, yeah, come on... 18:25 He's not in the heavenly Sanctuary, 18:26 I mean, obviously, this is a failed prophecy" 18:29 very same... in other words 18:31 the parallel is absolutely amazing... 18:33 James: On the other end of the same prophecy. 18:34 Ivor: On the other end of the same prophecy... 18:36 one more thing, it was two disciples... 18:39 James: Let's say it... say it Ivor, say it Ivor... 18:41 on the other end of the same prophecy, 18:43 you have this disappointment and the whole world's saying, 18:46 "Oh, you guys are just face-saving... 18:47 your prophecy wasn't fulfilled 18:49 and you're just saving... oh, He went into the... what?" 18:52 The Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary 18:54 same... same issue... 18:56 the disciples... He went into the Sanctuary, 18:58 the Millerites... He went into the Sanctuary, 19:00 here He went into the Holy place... 19:01 here He went into the Most Holy Place. 19:03 Ivor: And those who did not believe 19:04 that He had entered into the heavenly realms, 19:07 were not benefitted by His ministry... 19:09 James: In the disciples' time... 19:10 Ivor: In the disciples' time and the same... 19:13 those who were like, "Yeah, no, no, no... " 19:15 could not be benefitted by the understanding 19:18 of what was actually occurring in 1844 19:20 and how that relates to the very end of time. 19:22 Yvonne: Hmmm... 19:23 Ivor: The day after the Great Disappointment... 19:26 James: Here it comes... here it comes... 19:28 Ivor: You got two disciples... 19:29 James: My feet are getting hot, my feet are getting hot... 19:31 it was good right... it was good right? 19:33 Ivor: Yeah, you got two disciples 19:35 walking on the road to Emmaus... 19:37 James: At night... they didn't want anyone to see them, 19:40 they're all... just like, "Let's go... " 19:43 Ivor: When they receive the revelation 19:47 "Oh! that's what it is... Jesus is alive. " 19:49 James: He's walking with them 19:52 and He's opening up the prophecies... 19:53 Ivor: Yeah, He's opening the prophecies to them. 19:55 James: Yeah, He's revealing it all to them. 19:57 Ivor: The day after October 22, October 23... 20:00 a man by the name of Hiram Edson and one other guy... 20:03 I cannot remember the guy's name we were just trying to... 20:05 are walking in a cornfield... 20:06 because they don't want anyone to see them. 20:08 James: They're not down the main road, 20:09 they're going through the cornfield... 20:11 they're going the back way... 20:14 right here in Illinois cornfield. 20:16 Ivor: Yeah and it is there that he receives the revelation, 20:20 "Wait a minute, the Sanctuary is not the earth, it's the heavens" 20:28 and that realization helped to move the Adventist Church 20:34 forward... "Go forward, but you must prophesy again" 20:40 because before... they were like, 20:42 "Oh, we're going forward... " and then boom! 20:44 it's disappointment... "Were we wrong? 20:47 Were we wrong about 1798? No, we know we weren't wrong" 20:51 in fact, I believe James... 20:52 and I'm just kind of saying this that 20:54 if 1798 and 1840 had not occurred, 20:57 they would have no reason to have even... stuck around 21:00 and said, "Maybe we got... maybe we got something wrong," 21:03 no, because 1798 and 1840 were the two pivotal 21:09 points that made them say, 21:11 "Okay, we must have got something wrong 21:14 the date had to be right, something else is wrong. " 21:17 James: Yeah. Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 21:18 Ivor: And those who ended up rejecting 1844, 21:21 also rejected 1840... also rejected 1798... 21:24 which does away with the understanding of the Papacy, 21:26 does away with the understanding of time, times and a half 21:29 and then you are left with only two choices, 21:31 Preterism or Futurism. 21:33 James: All right, feeling the heat on your feet? 21:35 Ivor: I'm feeling the heat. 21:36 James: Here's a little bit more, the predecessor to Christ 21:41 when He came the first time was John the Baptist, 21:43 John the Baptist... out in the wilderness... 21:46 eating locusts... 21:47 John the Baptist out in the wilderness... eating locusts, 21:50 and eventually he's beheaded 21:53 but he's confirming that this is the Messiah... 21:55 the people are believing John the Baptist, 21:58 they're convinced He's a prophet of God 21:59 and so he points to Jesus... 22:00 and because he points to Jesus, the people are directed to Jesus 22:04 and he dies... he languishes and has his head lopped off 22:07 then you go to the 391-year prophecy... 22:09 15-day prophecy and you've got this prophecy 22:12 that's... it's all mixed up with these locusts... 22:14 and this wilderness... this desolate place... 22:16 that's pointing to the Millerite Movement... 22:18 that's confirming the Millerite Movement 22:20 and right now... in a Theological sense 22:22 the head's been lopped off of that prophecy 22:24 and it's just lying desolate somewhere 22:27 just like John the Baptist, the parallels are incredible, 22:31 John the Baptist was so convincing... 22:33 such a firm... an affirmation of Christ... 22:35 and this prophecy was such an affirmation 22:38 of the Millerite Movement 22:39 and both of them... the greatest prophet... 22:42 the greatest time prophecy, 22:43 I'm going to say, "the greatest time prophecy" 22:45 not because of what it predicts 22:46 because the one that's the greatest prediction 22:48 is the 70 weeks... because it points to Jesus 22:51 but the greatest in how accurate it had to be 22:54 it had to go right to the day, you see 22:56 and John the Baptist was it, he was the greatest prophet, 22:59 not in the sense that he wrote the Old or New Testament, 23:01 he didn't... we don't have his writings 23:03 but in a sense that he was just pointing people to Christ 23:05 he had a large following but he pointed people to Jesus. 23:08 Jason: And when John the Baptist was in the wilderness, 23:10 he was literally... that... 23:12 that eating locusts was literal or was that...? 23:14 James: You had to ask that question... 23:16 and we were just flowing along 23:18 and everything's going really good 23:20 and all of a sudden... now we're talking about... 23:22 now we're talking about baked locusts... 23:25 oh ooooh... no... what it was was... 23:28 in the Middle East, 23:29 there is what is known as the locust plant 23:31 and it's a tree... it's actually a tree, a carob tree 23:34 and these locusts... this locust tree 23:38 it's this plant... it has little kernels 23:43 that you can grind up and make bread out of, 23:45 even today they call it "Saint John's Bread" 23:48 but... but the people that ate that, 23:50 you see, that was the kind of stuff 23:52 that you fed to the animals 23:53 this stuff wasn't really like the food that you would eat 23:57 if you had any kind of money 23:59 so if you had to eat the locust bread... 24:00 if you had to eat that kind of food, 24:02 then, you must be pretty poor, 24:06 and if you're poor, you must be... 24:07 God must not be blessing you therefore, if you... 24:10 God's not blessing you, you must need to repent. 24:13 What was the message of John the Baptist? 24:15 "Repent... " so the diet that he ate 24:18 went along with the message that he gave. 24:20 He had camel's hair... he ate locusts... 24:22 which was the locust plant 24:23 and the locust plant was a diet 24:25 that was usually given to animals, 24:27 if you had to eat this kind of diet 24:29 which was animal feed, you must be really poor, 24:32 therefore, God must... must not be blessing you 24:34 and, therefore, you need to repent, 24:36 and his message was a message of repentance 24:37 but yeah... and even to this day 24:39 yeah, the locusts are there, not insects... 24:42 you could actually eat them, people do actually eat them, 24:46 right now, there's a huge Movement in the United States 24:50 for locust protein... locust protein... 24:54 you grind it up and just mix up in your blender and shoosh... 24:57 down it goes... and you've got some protein. 25:00 Yvonne: Oh... Jason: I'd rather have... 25:01 Ivor: And there's another one too... 25:02 James: Yeah... it's really worse... 25:04 Ivor: Which we cannot discuss in the program, 25:05 it's worse than this, yeah. 25:06 Yvonne: Ugh... 25:08 Ivor: Anyway, I think... this Revelation chapter 10 25:11 really summarizes nicely why we just went through 25:15 all we went through with the trumpets... 25:17 especially trumpets 5 and 6 and the whole Dark Ages 25:23 it helps us to step back again and see, 25:25 "Yeah, there's a reason why God is doing this" 25:28 He's doing this because remember the trumpets also mean 25:32 advance... and these trumpets are allowing God's people 25:36 to see, "Yeah, God is with us, God is behind us, 25:40 God is ahead of us... 25:41 we're not just like... wandering in the wilderness" 25:45 those trumpets in the wilderness every time they were blown, 25:47 when the children of Israel were on their journey, 25:49 they were blown... "move forward... move forward" 25:52 and this is God saying, 25:54 "Look, in case you're doubting, in case you're wondering, 25:56 'where am I?' I want you to know, 25:58 my hand is over these things, move forward. " 26:02 Jason: I really like that one... the prophecy where it was like 26:05 to the day... how it worked... 391 years... 15 days... 26:10 James: That's the one I'm talking about. 26:11 Jason: Prescise. 26:12 James: Yeah, that's the John-the-Baptist prophecy, 26:14 that's like... boom! 26:15 Ivor: And you get rid of those two prophecies, 26:17 you get rid of one of those prophecies... 26:19 and you really lose the message 26:22 of what God is trying to tell His people 26:24 in Revelation chapter 10, 26:25 the emphasis of the Great Disappointment, 26:28 is kind of... you don't really get it 26:30 unless you understand it 26:32 in the context of that 1840 prophecy and the 1798 prophecy. 26:37 James: And I really hope that... 26:39 that our Viewers are understanding 26:41 the point that's being established 26:42 through these programs and that is... 26:44 the book of Revelation is tied together, 26:46 it's closely tied together, 26:47 every prophecy... every section of this book, 26:50 these prophetic cycles that repeat and enlarge... 26:52 each one is dependent on the other 26:54 and each one brings more meaning to the next section, 26:57 so if you look at the history that's taking place here, 27:00 you see it growing and growing and growing 27:02 because by the time we get to 27:03 Revelation chapters 12, 13 and 14, 27:05 basically, we've got a summary 27:07 of everything we've already covered, 27:09 the everlasting gospel is not some new thing 27:10 that God just threw in there at the end of time, 27:12 it's something that we've been developing all the way through, 27:15 the light... the Sun of righteousness 27:16 all of these prophecies pointing us to Jesus 27:18 and directing us away from men. 27:20 Now, there's one thing that we haven't covered here 27:22 that I wanted to remind us of... 27:24 for our next program and that's the mystery of God, 27:26 here's going to be what we're gong to find 27:28 another confirmation... everything we just talked about, 27:31 the fact that the time prophecies... come to an end 27:34 that we're not into Futurism, that we're not into Preterism, 27:37 is going to be confirmed 27:39 by this ides of the mystery of Godliness, 27:41 we've got to remember to touch on that 27:43 as we get into our next Program. 27:44 All right, what do our Viewers need to do 27:46 to get ahold of these Programs? 27:48 Jason: Well, they have to send us an e-mail at sss@3abn. org 27:53 James: You heard the man, sss@3abn. org 27:56 so send in your e-mails and videos. 27:59 Jason: Yes. Ivor: Amen. 28:01 Yvonne: Amen. |
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