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00:41 Welcome and thank you for joining us
00:43 for this Bible prophecy series titled 00:46 "Three Cosmic Messages, Earth's Final Conflict." 00:51 As we look around the world today, 00:53 we see uncertainty, 00:55 uncertainty in the economic markets, 00:59 political uncertainty, 01:01 uncertainty with the weather patterns, 01:03 and global warming. 01:05 We look around the world we see pandemics, epidemics, 01:09 natural disasters everywhere. 01:12 And we ask the question, what does the future hold? 01:16 Does God have a message for this generation 01:19 that is tailor-made to prepare it for that 01:23 which is coming upon the world as an overwhelming surprise? 01:26 The good news is, the Book of Revelation reveals 01:30 God's end time message for humanity. 01:33 During this series, 01:35 we will study three cosmic messages, 01:39 messages that speak to us with relevance and meaning 01:43 and purpose today. 01:46 Let's pray as we open the Word of God, 01:48 and we delve right into this first subject 01:52 in this series of Three Cosmic Messages. 01:55 Will you pray with me please? 01:57 Father in heaven, thank You so much 01:59 that You have a message for this generation, 02:02 that the world has not been left in silence, 02:06 to wander around in confusion and darkness. 02:09 Thank You that light from Your Word shines 02:13 and that messages from heaven speak to us of hope, 02:18 insecurity and meaning. 02:20 We thank You for that in Jesus' name, amen. 02:25 This first presentation looks at an introduction 02:29 to the three angels' messages. 02:32 Now that title may be familiar to you 02:34 or it may be a little confusing. 02:37 In the Book of Revelation, 02:39 God gives to us three life changing universal, 02:45 eternal dramatic messages pictured as being carried 02:49 by three angels in mid heaven. 02:52 We call them Three Cosmic Messages. 02:56 These messages deal with an intergalactic struggle. 03:00 They deal with a star wars 03:01 controversy between good and evil. 03:05 They deal with Christ's final message 03:08 for humanity. 03:09 To understand those messages in their fullest sense, 03:13 it's necessary to understand 03:15 the larger context of this controversy 03:19 between good and evil. 03:22 In this first presentation, 03:23 we're going to take a look at Revelation the 12th Chapter, 03:27 which is an introduction to Revelation Chapter 14. 03:31 The theme of this chapter in Revelation 12 03:34 is Jesus wins and Satan loses. 03:38 The Book of Revelation unravels history, 03:43 it breaks Satan's code. 03:46 Will you come with me for a few moments back in time 03:50 to the World War II? 03:53 Hitler's armies were attacking England 03:58 and the Nazi Panzer divisions 04:00 were moving very rapidly across Europe. 04:04 Just 20 miles across the English Channel, 04:07 Hitler was moving very quickly to destroy England. 04:13 The air raids were frequent almost every evening. 04:18 Winston Churchill was plotting 04:21 how to counteract the attacks of Hitler 04:25 in his underground war rooms. 04:27 You can still visit those underground war rooms 04:29 in London today. 04:31 I visited them on numerous occasions. 04:34 And there in those underground war rooms, 04:36 the war strategy was being planned. 04:40 But not too far from that up 04:41 the Thames River at Bletchley Park, 04:44 they were a group of people working 04:46 called the code-breakers. 04:48 Their great desire was to break the German Enigma code. 04:52 Recently, Simon Singh has written a book called 04:55 "The Code Book," 04:56 the secret history of codes and code breaking. 05:01 In that book, he tells the story 05:03 of the Bletchley Park code-breakers. 05:07 Hitler had 159 million Enigma codes 05:13 that needed to be broken. 05:15 And these code-breakers studied the codes. 05:18 And there was one brilliant code-breaker 05:20 called Alan Turing. 05:22 He was a mathematical genius. 05:25 He was a intelligence officer in crypto intelligence. 05:30 And he began studying those codes, 05:32 began trying to figure out, 05:33 "How do I break the German codes?" 05:35 As he did, he came up 05:38 with a method to break the German codes. 05:40 And at times, they were able 05:43 to track the German submarines in very real time. 05:47 Other times they were able to tell the allied forces 05:51 where those German submarines were 05:52 so they could be destroyed 05:54 and where the allied forces boats 05:57 were so they could avoid those attack German submarines. 06:01 The code-breakers were largely responsible 06:05 for helping to shorten the war. 06:09 In fact, Jack Good, 06:11 one of the code-breakers said this. 06:12 "I won't say that 06:13 what Turing did made us win the war, 06:15 but I dare say we might have lost it without him." 06:19 Code-breakers were 06:22 incredibly important in the World War II 06:24 to identify where the submarines were, 06:26 to enable the allied forces to avoid them 06:29 and to destroy those German submarines. 06:32 The Book of Revelation is a code-breaker. 06:35 It breaks the code of Satan. It unmasks his plans. 06:40 And as you and I 06:41 study these prophecies in the Book of Revelation, 06:46 we will discover just 06:48 how Satan's code can be broken. 06:51 The Book of Revelation 06:52 unmasks the plans of the evil one, 06:55 it reveals the plans of God. 06:58 Revelation Chapter 12 outlines this great conflict, 07:01 this great cosmic controversy, 07:03 this intergalactic struggle between good and evil. 07:09 The theme of Revelation 12 is Jesus wins and Satan loses. 07:13 There are four great episodes 07:14 in the 12th Chapter of the Book of Revelation. 07:16 We're going to look at every one of those episodes. 07:19 And these episodes will prepare us 07:22 to understand the Three Cosmic Messages 07:25 in Revelation, the 14th Chapter. 07:27 In episode number one, 07:29 there's a battle for the throne. 07:30 Come with me. 07:32 Travel with me back over the millenniums of time, 07:36 travel with me to the very throne room of the universe, 07:40 travel with me to the epicenter of this conflict as it began. 07:45 Revelation 12:7-9 says, "And war broke out in heaven." 07:50 Now that's a strange place for war, isn't it? 07:52 War breaks out where? In heaven. 07:54 "Michael and His angels fought against the dragon 07:58 and the dragon and his angels fought 08:00 but they did not prevail," this text goes on, 08:05 "nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer, 08:08 so the great dragon was cast out, 08:10 that serpent of old called the devil and Satan, 08:14 who deceives," now notice the word deceives, 08:17 "the whole world," Satan is a deceiver, 08:19 "he was cast into the earth 08:21 and his angels were cast out with him." 08:24 Every angel had to make a choice. 08:27 The Bible says the dragon and his angels fought 08:31 and Michael and his angels fought. 08:33 So there was a conflict, an intergalactic conflict, 08:37 a star wars battle between the forces of good 08:41 and the forces of evil, between heaven's forces 08:44 and what soon became the forces of the evil one. 08:50 The issue had to be allegiance, 08:52 the issue was, who is worthy to rule. 08:56 This is a star wars controversy 08:59 far beyond anything that you and I could ever imagine. 09:03 Every angel had to make a choice. 09:05 There was no neutrality in that first conflict. 09:10 Some time ago, I read a fascinating story 09:13 that illustrates this idea 09:14 of neutrality in conflict and crisis. 09:17 There was a young college student, 09:18 and this young college student was looking at the want ads 09:22 in the newspaper, and he was studying his iPad 09:25 to try to discover a job for the summer. 09:28 He was going to a Christian college 09:29 and it costs quite a bit of money to go 09:32 and so he needed to offset his costs. 09:35 And so he studied, 09:36 "Where can I work for the summer?" 09:38 He found an ad on the iPad that indicated as he googled it, 09:44 that there was very good pay if he would go up 09:46 and cut timber in the country of Canada. 09:51 Go up, spend the summer in the forests 09:53 and cut the timber there. 09:55 As he was looking at the ads, he saw the hourly wage, 10:01 he saw what he might make for the summer, really, 10:03 was really excited about it. 10:05 So he decided to sign up 10:06 and go up to Canada to cut timber. 10:10 His friends began to counsel with him and they said, 10:13 "Look, if you go there, those rough, tough cursing, 10:19 swearing, drinking foul mouth 10:23 lumberjacks are gonna tear you apart. 10:25 You're a thin young man 10:28 who doesn't have much substance to you 10:31 and they are just gonna break you in half 10:33 once they find out you're a Christian. 10:35 They are going to ridicule you, 10:36 you're gonna have a horrible summer." 10:38 He needed the money. So he went. 10:41 When he came back after the summer, 10:42 his friend said to him, 10:44 "Well, tell us how did you do working 10:46 with those guys all summer?" 10:48 He smiled and he said, "I did great, 10:49 made a lot of money, never had one problem at all." 10:52 "You did great. But why did you do so great?" 10:56 "They never found out that I was a Christian." 11:00 Neutrality. Neutrality. 11:02 "They never found out that I was a Christian." 11:05 In that cosmic battle between good and evil, 11:09 every angel had to make a choice. 11:12 And these Three Cosmic Messages 11:14 that we are going to be studying 11:15 in earth's final conflict in these last days 11:17 of earth's history. 11:19 In these days, every human being 11:24 is gonna have to make a decision. 11:25 There will be no neutrality, 11:27 no middle ground in this conflict 11:29 between good and evil. 11:30 You see, the freedom to choose 11:32 is a fundamental principle of God's government. 11:35 God has created every one of us 11:37 with conscience, with reason, with judgment. 11:40 Every single one of us has that capacity, 11:44 that innate capacity to choose. 11:46 And in earth's final war, 11:49 the entire human race will be brought to that moment 11:53 of destiny, that choice. 11:55 In fact, Revelation ends 11:56 with Revelation 22 with the words, 11:58 "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, 12:00 he that is holy, let him be holy still, 12:02 he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, 12:04 he that is unrighteous, let him be unrighteous still." 12:07 Every human being will have to make that decision. 12:11 Has it gripped you yet? 12:12 Maybe you're a little bit neutral, 12:15 maybe you're on the fence. 12:16 You haven't fully committed to Christ. 12:18 You haven't committed your life to Him. 12:22 But yet, there's that desire 12:24 in your heart to be all out for Christ. 12:29 This is the time to make that decision. 12:32 We are living in a crisis time in earth's history. 12:35 We're living in the final moments 12:37 of earth's history. 12:38 And the freedom to choose, 12:40 God is never going to force you but the freedom to choose 12:42 is a fundamental principle of God's government. 12:46 A 19th century writer 12:50 wrote with spiritual insight in a manuscript that 12:53 she addressed in 1899, and she says this, 12:56 "Christ shows that there can be no such thing 12:59 as neutrality in His service." 13:03 No such thing as what? Neutrality. 13:06 "The soul must not be satisfied 13:08 with anything short of the entire consecration, 13:12 consecration of thought, voice, 13:15 spirit, and every organ of mind and body." 13:18 Christ is appealing to us to be totally committed to Him. 13:24 The statement goes on, 13:25 "It's not enough that the vessel be emptied, 13:27 it must be filled with the grace of Christ." 13:29 Jesus longs to fill you with His grace. 13:32 He longs to fill you with His power. 13:35 He longs to fill you with His Holy Spirit. 13:38 He longs for you to be a powerful witness for Him, 13:42 in a world of darkness shining 13:44 as a light for His eternal kingdom. 13:47 There is no neutrality in earth's final war. 13:51 Notice what the scripture says, Revelation 12:7-8, 13:54 "The dragon," that's the devil, the Bible says, 13:57 the dragon's the devil in Revelation, 13:58 "And His angels fought, but they did not," what? 14:04 "They did not," what? 14:06 "Prevail nor was a place found for them 14:08 in heaven any longer." 14:10 I love the but there, the dragon or the devil 14:15 and His angels fought but, 14:16 but, but, but they did not what? 14:18 They did not prevail in that first battle 14:21 between Christ and Satan. 14:22 Jesus wins and Satan loses. 14:25 Jesus is the Mighty Warrior. 14:28 Jesus is the Conquering General. 14:31 Jesus is the Victorious Lord. 14:34 Jesus is the Triumphant King. 14:37 Jesus has never lost a battle with Satan yet 14:40 and He will not lose a battle 14:42 for your soul either, my friend, 14:44 because He is the Triumphant King. 14:47 When one third of the angels according to Revelation, 14:50 battled against Christ in heaven, 14:53 Jesus stood up and with all His power 14:58 and might cast them out of heaven. 15:02 In episode two, Jesus wins and Satan loses. 15:06 Millenniums pass. Satan plans his next strategy. 15:11 Christ the Messiah is to come to earth. 15:15 Jesus is here to be born 15:18 on earth and Satan plans to destroy the Christ child. 15:22 The Bible says in Revelation 12:4-5, 15:26 "And the dragon stood before the woman 15:29 who was ready to give birth, 15:31 to devour her child as soon as it was born." 15:34 Now who's the dragon everybody? 15:36 Who is that? That's Satan. 15:38 And he's standing before the woman 15:41 who's ready to give birth 15:42 to devour her child as soon as it's born. 15:44 Who is this man child born of the woman? 15:48 None other than Jesus Christ. 15:50 The Bible says, "She bore a male Child 15:53 who was to rule all nations with the rod of iron." 15:56 So Christ was to be born, 15:58 born of a virgin in Bethlehem's manger. 16:02 Prophecy after prophecy 16:04 in the Old Testament reveal the birth of Christ. 16:08 Micah 5:2 reveals His birthplace, 16:12 He'd be born in Bethlehem. 16:14 Isaiah 7:14 reveals that He would be born of a virgin. 16:19 And the Book of Numbers reveals 16:22 that a star would lead the wise men to this Christ 16:25 and to His birth place. 16:27 His birth was predicted ahead of time. 16:30 Isaiah 61 predicts His life ahead of time, 16:33 the ministry of Christ. 16:35 Psalms 22 talks about the death of Christ 16:39 and that He would be crucified and not be stoned. 16:43 The Bible in Zachariah talks about the fact that 16:46 He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver 16:49 by a friend and not an enemy. 16:51 So Christ, this male Child born of the virgin 16:56 was the living Christ, 16:59 the divine Christ Jesus was more than a good man, 17:02 more than an ethical philosopher, 17:03 more than a religious teacher. 17:05 He indeed was the divine Son of God. 17:07 "She bore a male Child 17:08 who eventually would rule all nations 17:10 with the rod of iron." 17:11 Now this is a very interesting expression, 17:14 this expression, the rod of iron. 17:17 In the Bible, a rod is a symbol of dominion or rulership. 17:22 You remember Moses lifted the rod, 17:25 and the Red Sea opened 17:27 and Israel came through that Red Sea, 17:30 probably 20 miles across, 17:33 over 130 feet deep, 17:35 a miracle that God worked as they came through. 17:38 In the Bible, a rod is a symbol of dominion or rulership. 17:41 You remember too, Moses took his rod 17:43 and he threw it down, 17:44 and the snakes of the Egyptians were eaten up by that rod 17:50 that became a snake for Moses, right? 17:51 It's always a symbol of dominion or power. 17:54 Now what about this idea of iron, 17:55 the rod of iron? 17:57 A rod of iron is a symbol of unbreakable, all powerful, 18:01 invincible rulership. 18:03 So when Christ is born of the virgin, although, 18:07 Satan tries to destroy Him, 18:09 and Satan tries to take His life, 18:12 and at every step of Jesus' life, 18:15 Satan tried to destroy Him, 18:17 whether it was at His birth, during His life, 18:21 whether it was in the wilderness 18:23 of temptation on the cross of Calvary, 18:25 but Jesus would rule with a rod of iron. 18:28 Jesus is the unbreakable one. 18:31 Jesus is the all powerful one. 18:33 Jesus is the invincible one. 18:37 This Christ, who came and tabernacled in human flesh, 18:41 this Christ who died on Calvary's cross, 18:44 this Christ who rose from the dead, 18:47 this Christ is your Christ. 18:48 He is my Christ. 18:50 He is the Jesus of the Book of Revelation. 18:53 Jesus faced every single temptation 18:56 we faced and He came off as conqueror. 18:58 The theme of the Book of Revelation 19:00 is Jesus wins and Satan loses. 19:04 Satan failed to destroy Him as a child. 19:06 He failed to defeat Him in His life. 19:08 He failed to demolish Him in His death. 19:11 And because Christ triumphed, we can triumph. 19:14 In the crisis's that are coming upon this world 19:17 that will break upon this world is an overwhelming surprise. 19:20 We are secure in Christ. 19:22 Our life is anchored in Christ. 19:24 Our life is definitely without any possibility 19:31 of our being eternally lost in Christ. 19:34 If we are in Christ, 19:36 all of Satan's attacks cannot in any way destroy us. 19:39 The all powerful risen Christ has defeated Satan. 19:43 In episode number one, 19:46 Satan's cast out of heaven, Jesus wins, Satan loses. 19:49 In episode number two, 19:52 Satan tries to destroy Jesus as a child but again, 19:55 Jesus wins, Satan loses. 20:00 In Revelation 12:10, 20:02 "Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven," 20:04 what kind of a voice? A loud voice. 20:05 Why a loud voice? 20:07 Because God wants you to hear it. 20:08 "I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 'Now salvation 20:11 and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 20:13 and the power of His Christ have come." 20:15 When Jesus is born, what comes? 20:17 Notice these things that come, four things, 20:20 salvation comes in Christ, 20:22 strength comes in Christ, 20:25 the kingdom of God comes in Christ, 20:28 and power comes in Christ. 20:30 So when Jesus is born, you and I have salvation, 20:35 you and I have strength, 20:37 you and I have the kingdom of God has come in Christ. 20:41 We live within the glory of that kingdom of grace, 20:44 and the power of Christ has come. 20:46 The dying Christ declares us righteous through His blood. 20:50 And the living Christ makes us 20:51 righteous through His intercession. 20:53 When Christ dies for us, salvation is ours. 20:58 It's a gift. 20:59 Grace is ours, pardon is ours, mercy is ours when Christ dies. 21:04 But Jesus is not only the dying lamb, 21:07 Jesus is the living priest. 21:09 And this Christ that is alive, 21:11 this Jesus that is alive gives to us strength 21:14 and grace and power. 21:16 Notice what the Bible says in Revelation 12:11, 21:20 about our victory in Christ. 21:23 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb 21:27 and the word of their testimony." 21:29 Now there are three things about this particular passage 21:32 we want to look at. 21:33 First they overcame him. 21:34 What does it mean to overcome him? 21:36 The second thing we want to look at the passage is 21:39 by the blood of the Lamb. 21:41 Practically, what does that mean? 21:43 And the third thing we want to look at 21:45 is the word of their testimony. 21:47 The Book of Testimonies was written, this is a book, 21:49 Testimonies is a book that was written 21:53 by Ellen White to the church. 21:56 Testimonies of grace 21:59 and testimonies of encouragement. 22:02 She wrote to a young man 22:05 who had married a woman who was very sick. 22:08 And she wrote to this young man 22:11 and said to him, 22:15 "You have become extremely depressed." 22:18 And this what she wrote, "Your life is now miserable, 22:22 full of evil forebodings. 22:24 Gloomy pictures loom up before you. 22:26 Dark unbelief has enclosed you. 22:29 Yet no one can help you as well as yourself. 22:32 If you want faith, talk faith, 22:35 talk hopefully, talk cheerfully." 22:38 Now remember what our text said in Revelation 12:11, 22:40 "They overcame him," what? 22:42 "By the blood of the Lamb and by," what else? 22:44 "The word of their," what? "Testimony." 22:47 So here, Ellen White, 22:49 this woman of great spiritual insight, 22:52 counsels this young man and counsels this young woman. 22:56 She says, if you want faith, what do you do? 22:58 You talk faith. 22:59 If you want faith, what do you do? 23:01 You talk hopefully and talk cheerfully. 23:03 In other words, knowing that Christ 23:05 has triumphed over the powers of hell, 23:07 knowing that Jesus has overcome the principalities 23:12 and powers of darkness, 23:13 we live in the victory of Christ. 23:16 We live in that victory, 23:19 because He has sustained it for us. 23:21 So no matter how we feel, we may feel discouraged, 23:24 we may feel disappointed, we may feel weak, 23:27 but we do not cry out in our weakness. 23:30 We cry out in faith, grasping by faith, 23:33 the living reality of Christ, 23:35 living in the crisis of this earth's history, 23:39 living in the closing hours of earth's history. 23:42 Darkness will surround us, 23:44 that situation in the world will become dire. 23:47 There'll be economic collapse. 23:49 There'll be pandemics that sweep across our world. 23:52 There will be political disasters. 23:55 There will be war and famine and pestilence. 23:58 And if we look at those things, 24:00 we will be overwhelmed and depressed, 24:02 but looking beyond what is to what we'll be, 24:05 looking beyond what is He who is, 24:08 so we do not look at what is, 24:10 we look at he who is in Jesus Christ. 24:14 The divine Son of God is all powerful. 24:17 He has overcome the evil one. 24:20 Our faith grows 24:22 as we accept Christ victory as our own. 24:26 Our faith will grow as we accept 24:30 the victory of Jesus Christ in His life, in His death, 24:35 in His resurrection in our behalf, 24:37 so we live in that victory. 24:39 Revelation 12:10 says, 24:41 "Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven." 24:43 Now remember the text we've read it, 24:45 but we're unpacking it. 24:47 "Now salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 24:51 and the power of His Christ has come." 24:53 Salvation, strength, the kingdom of God, 24:55 the power of His Christ has come. 24:56 Why? 24:57 "For the accuser of our brethren," 24:59 that's Satan, "who accused them day and night 25:01 before our God has been cast out." 25:05 So Satan defeated, cast out of heaven. 25:08 Satan was defeated in heaven. 25:09 He was defeated at the cross. 25:11 But there is still this battle that wages on earth. 25:15 There's the battle for your mind. 25:17 There's the battle for your heart. 25:19 There's the battle for your soul. 25:20 It's still wages here. 25:23 Remember what our text said? 25:26 Ephesians 6:16, says, 25:28 "We wrestle not against flesh and blood 25:30 but against principalities and powers in heavenly places." 25:33 In this cosmic struggle between good and evil 25:37 in earth's final conflict, 25:40 we are in the midst of a battle, 25:43 and Satan is not going to give up easy 25:45 if you're going through a struggle right now, 25:48 if you're going through a crisis 25:50 in your life right now, 25:51 if you're going through a battle right now, 25:54 if the forces of hell seem to be 25:57 overwhelming you right now. 26:00 We are in the middle of a cosmic conflict. 26:03 But the same Jesus that cast Satan out of heaven, 26:07 the same Jesus that defeated Satan in His life 26:10 and death and resurrection, 26:12 that all powerful Christ 26:15 as you reach out to grasp Him by faith, 26:18 as you open your heart to His love, 26:21 and you're washed by His love and grace, 26:24 Jesus will sustain you, 26:26 Jesus will deliver you, 26:28 Jesus will enable you to have the shackles 26:31 that bind you severed. 26:34 The Bible says, "They overcame him 26:37 by the blood of the lamb, 26:39 by the word of their testimony. 26:40 They lived out their lives to death." 26:42 Now we looked at that phrase, 26:43 the word of their testimony, 26:44 we speak out the victory in Christ, 26:47 whether we feel that victory or not. 26:49 But what does it mean, 26:50 they overcame him by the blood of the lamb? 26:53 Now notice it says, "They overcame him." 26:55 They were not overcome, they overcame him. 26:57 Victory is ours. 26:59 They are not overcome, they overcame. 27:02 They are not defeated, they are what? 27:04 Victorious. 27:06 They are not conquered, they are what? 27:08 Conquerors. 27:09 They did not lose the battle, they do what? 27:12 They win the battle. 27:15 Now the word overcome 27:17 is a very, very fascinating word. 27:21 It's called nikao, and that's the Greek word. 27:25 You know, the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. 27:28 The New Testament was written in Greek. 27:31 And the word nikao means to conquer, to prevail, 27:36 to triumph, to come through victoriously. 27:40 So the word overcome in the Greek language 27:43 is a very strong word. 27:45 It's not a weak word. 27:47 It has to do with conquest. It has to do with victory. 27:50 And when the Bible says they overcame him, 27:52 that's not, oh, they, they, they, 27:54 they overcame him, it's they overcame him. 27:58 It's a very strong word. 28:00 That indicates that victory is certain for the one 28:05 who is in Christ, whose faith is in Christ, 28:08 the one who has the grace 28:11 and power of Christ living in their lives. 28:14 Now throughout the Book of Revelation, 28:18 this expression the Lamb of God is used frequently. 28:23 Notice the Bible says, 28:24 "They overcame him by the blood of the lamb 28:27 and the word of their testimony 28:29 and they love not their lives to death." 28:31 The expression the Lamb of God 28:33 is used throughout the Book of Revelation. 28:34 In fact, it's used 28 times in the Book of Revelation. 28:39 Now numbers in the Book of Revelation 28:41 are very interesting, and they are code words for us. 28:47 In the Book of Revelation four represents universality. 28:52 The four winds of the compass, it has to do with completeness 28:56 or universality, every direction of the compass, 29:00 every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, that's four. 29:03 In the Book of Revelation seven indicates perfection. 29:06 You have the seven churches, 29:08 the seven seals, the seven trumpets, 29:10 the seven Spirits of God, seventh-day Sabbath, 29:13 all of that in Revelation. 29:16 Four times seven is 28. 29:18 So in the Book of Revelation, 29:19 what you have is that Christ 29:21 is the universal Savior as the Lamb of God, 29:25 and He is the perfect Savior, 29:27 because He provides the perfect sacrifice 29:30 for the sins of humanity, 29:31 and He has perfectly overcome the powers of hell. 29:36 Now we're going to look at one of those Bible passages, 29:38 of those 28 in the Book of Revelation 29:40 that talk about Jesus as the Lamb of God. 29:43 In Revelation 5:6, it says, "And I looked, and behold, 29:47 in the midst of the throne 29:49 and of the four living creatures, 29:51 stood a lamb as it had been slain." 29:54 Now that's a very strange place for a slain lamb to be. 29:59 You look up into heaven, 30:01 and there you see this lamb that has been slain, 30:04 and all of heaven is worshipping there. 30:09 "Having seven horns and seven eyes..." 30:11 Now in the Bible horns are a symbol of power. 30:13 Seven horns a perfect power. 30:15 Eyes are a symbol of wisdom. 30:17 And so you have the Christ. 30:20 They are this slain lamb in heaven, 30:22 who is perfectly wise 30:24 in implementing the point of our salvation, 30:26 through His life and death on the cross 30:28 and through His high priestly ministry, 30:30 and who has all power to overcome Satan. 30:32 And the seven spirits, the seven spirits have to do 30:35 with the complete ministry of the Holy Spirit, 30:37 to bring the power of Christ 30:39 and the wisdom of Christ into our life. 30:41 So here you have the Lamb of God, 30:43 before the very throne of God, this slain lamb. 30:47 Now when John looks up 30:48 and sees this slain lamb in heaven, 30:51 he sees a scroll that's opened, 30:53 and that's the scroll of course of judgment. 30:55 And as he sees that, he asked, 30:57 "Who is worthy to open the scroll?" 31:00 And John sees nobody worthy to open that scroll. 31:03 And he begins to weep because 31:05 he knows that if no one can open the scroll, 31:08 then the entire universe is lost, 31:12 the entire planet earth is lost. 31:15 And then he sees the lamb step forth, 31:17 Jesus Christ. 31:18 Now you remember what John said, 31:20 when Jesus came for His baptism in John 1:29, 31:24 and he said, "Behold," that is look at, 31:26 "the Lamb of God that takes away 31:28 the sins of the world." 31:29 The original language for takes away is bears away 31:32 the sins of the world. 31:33 So Jesus takes away our sin, He takes away our guilt, 31:37 He takes away our shame, 31:38 He takes away our condemnation, 31:40 He takes away the grip of sin upon our life. 31:44 William Barclay, 31:45 a great Bible commentator puts it this way. 31:48 "The forgiveness which is in the cross 31:51 has left Satan the accuser, 31:53 no possible accusation to make." 31:57 Satan the accuser has 31:58 no possible accusation anymore, why? 32:01 Because of the blood of the lamb. 32:03 "They overcame him," 32:05 Revelation 12:11, second episode, 32:06 "They overcame him," by what? 32:08 By what? "By the blood of the Lamb." 32:10 What does that mean? 32:11 It means in the death of Christ and Calvary's cross, 32:15 the principalities and powers of hell 32:17 were cast down. 32:18 Satan was defeated. 32:19 Forgiveness is ours, freedom from guilt is ours. 32:22 There is no condemnation, Romans 8:1, 32:25 to those that are in Christ Jesus. 32:26 I love the way Charles Wesley puts it. 32:28 "Arise, my soul, arise! 32:30 Shake off thy guilty fears, 32:33 the bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears. 32:36 Before thy throne, my surety stands, 32:39 my name is written on His hands." 32:43 You and I have a Christ that died for us. 32:45 We have a Christ that lived for us. 32:46 We have a Jesus that's in heaven for us. 32:48 "Arise, my soul, arise! 32:50 Shake off thy guilty fears, 32:52 the bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears." 32:55 If you've come to Christ 32:56 and accepted His sacrifice on the cross 32:59 and are His child, your place in heaven 33:02 has already been assured through His victory. 33:04 You have a passport to heaven 33:07 through the blood of Jesus Christ. 33:09 Ephesians 2:6, says, "God raised us up with Christ 33:14 and seated us with Him 33:15 in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus." 33:17 Right now, we dwell on earth, 33:20 with these paltry bodies 33:23 that are so subject to disease and sickness. 33:26 We dwell on earth with all of its conflict 33:28 and uncertainty, but by faith, 33:30 we dwell in the heavenly realms with Christ. 33:33 And we are as really there today 33:35 by faith as if we live there, 33:38 because Jesus has guaranteed our place there. 33:44 You know, some time ago, I was travelling 33:47 from one of the Middle Eastern countries 33:49 and because I travel internationally a lot. 33:51 I typically have two passports, two American passports, 33:54 but one of my passports had run out 33:57 and I had forgotten that I had an Israeli stamp 34:00 in one of my passports 34:02 and that was a passport I was using. 34:03 So I was leaving this particular 34:04 Middle Eastern country 34:06 that has no diplomatic relationship 34:08 with Israel at all. 34:10 And if you have an Israeli passport leaving that country, 34:14 it's really problematic, 34:15 and they will detain you, they'll keep you. 34:18 So I was leaving this country and came to passport control. 34:22 And the security officer took my passport 34:26 began looking through it. 34:28 And he said, "Israel stamp." 34:30 I didn't say anything. "Israel stamp!" 34:33 And I could see he was not a friendly, 34:35 friendly guy at all. 34:38 I said, "Oh, yes, it is an Israeli stamp." 34:39 "Now wait here." 34:41 And so he walked back 34:42 and talked to some more security people, 34:43 came back, again, "Israel stamp." 34:46 "Yes, it is I travel internationally. 34:49 And I travelled to many Middle Eastern countries." 34:50 I began listing off 34:52 all the Middle Eastern countries 34:53 that I travelled to, you know, Turkey, Jordan, 34:55 you know, Egypt, et cetera. 34:57 And he said, "Israeli stamp!" I said, "Yes." 34:59 Then he went to the police 35:00 and my heart was beating a little faster. 35:02 You see, you're a pastor, you should have faith. 35:03 Yeah, I had faith but I still had a heart too. 35:05 And so I just prayed, "Lord, please, please." 35:09 And he came back and I said, 35:10 "Well, here I go to the police." 35:12 He just gave me my passport back and he said, 35:14 "You go now!" 35:15 And I tell you, 35:17 he didn't have to tell me twice. 35:18 I took off. 35:19 You know, and so, 35:21 but when I had the wrong stamp on my passport, 35:22 now, I had a quite different experience. 35:24 When I came back to the United States, 35:27 I handed my American passport 35:30 to the passport control security officer. 35:33 He took my passport, 35:34 he smiled and said, "Welcome home." 35:35 What was the difference? 35:37 I was a citizen of the United States. 35:40 I had a passport to enter. 35:43 Through Jesus Christ and His blood, 35:45 you have a passport for eternity. 35:47 And Jesus says to you, "Welcome home, My child." 35:51 You belong here in Christ 35:53 and by Christ, and through Christ, 35:55 and because of Christ, you belong here. 35:58 We're no longer foreigners or aliens, 36:02 but we are citizens of the kingdom through Christ. 36:05 Satan's charge against God 36:07 in heaven was that God was a dictator, 36:09 a tyrant who did not have 36:11 the best interest of His creatures in view. 36:15 But in the cross of Calvary, 36:17 in the life and death and resurrection of Christ, 36:20 Satan's charges have been answered. 36:23 We have a Savior who has provided for us 36:28 an open door into heaven. 36:31 On the cross, love triumphs over hate, righteousness 36:35 triumphs over unrighteousness, goodness triumphs over evil. 36:41 Napoleon once said this 36:43 to his soldiers, "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, 36:47 and myself founded great empires, 36:50 but upon what did the creations of our genius depend? 36:54 Upon force. 36:55 Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, 37:00 and to this very day, millions would die for Him." 37:04 There is a kingdom that's out of this world, 37:07 founded on the grace of Christ and the love of Christ. 37:10 And the Book of Revelation invites you into that kingdom 37:14 to experience that grace, to experience that love. 37:17 And Jesus says to you and to me today, Matthew 28:20, 37:22 "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." 37:25 Christ walks with us through the darkness of this world, 37:29 in the cosmic conflict, in earth's final conflict 37:34 Three Cosmic Messages speak to our hearts. 37:37 They say to us that Christ is with us. 37:40 Christ is revealing Himself to us 37:42 in His love and grace, and goodness and mercy. 37:45 Episode number one, there's a battle in heaven. 37:49 Satan is cast out of heaven. 37:51 He does not prevail. 37:52 Episode number two, 37:53 Satan focuses attention upon Christ on earth 37:58 and he tries to destroy Jesus. 38:01 And in that second episode, Jesus wins and Satan loses. 38:04 Christ dies, but He's resurrected. 38:05 He lives in heaven for us. 38:07 Episode number three, 38:08 Satan attacks God's people in the Middle Ages. 38:11 Centuries pass, and there in the Middle Ages 38:15 there is this long period known as the period of darkness. 38:20 Revelation 12:6, 38:22 the Bible says, "Then the woman," 38:25 who's the woman in Bible prophecy? 38:27 It's the church. 38:28 "Fled into the wilderness, 38:31 where she has a place prepared by God, 38:33 that they should feed her there 38:36 one thousand two hundred and sixty days." 38:39 Now the thing that I want you to notice here is this, 38:43 that for every attack of Satan, 38:46 there is a place prepared by God. 38:51 For every time Satan attacks you, 38:53 every time Satan tries to destroy your life, 38:56 God has prepared a place of refuge for you. 38:58 God has prepared a place of security for you. 39:01 Jesus has already defeated Satan. 39:05 The theme of Revelation 12, 39:07 in the entire Book of Revelation, 39:09 Jesus wins, Satan loses. 39:12 Back to our text, "The woman," 39:13 the church, "flees into the wilderness, 39:15 where she has a place prepared by God 39:16 that they should feed her 39:17 there one thousand two hundred and sixty days." 39:21 In verse 13, it says, of Revelation 12, 39:23 "Now when the dragon saw that 39:25 he had been cast to the earth, 39:26 he persecuted the woman," so who is the woman? 39:29 The church. 39:30 "Who gave birth to the male child..." 39:32 Who's the male child? Jesus. 39:33 And so Satan tried to destroy Christ in heaven. 39:36 He was cast out. 39:38 Tried to destroy Christ 39:39 when He was born, could not accomplish that. 39:41 But the woman, that is the church, eventually, 39:43 "was given two wings of a great eagle, 39:45 that she might fly 39:47 into the wilderness to her place 39:48 where she's nourished for a time, 39:50 times and a half a time from the face of the serpent." 39:53 The sixth verse talks about the 1,260 years, 39:55 this talks about a time, 39:57 times and half the time, they're both the same period. 39:59 But now notice what happens 40:01 to the church in the wilderness. 40:02 She is what? 40:03 Nourished every time the devil tries to attack you, 40:06 every time the devil tries to destroy you, 40:09 every time you walk through your wilderness of darkness, 40:12 God has prepared a place for you. 40:14 But not only has He prepared 40:16 a place of security and assurance, 40:17 He's going to nourish you there. 40:19 You are going to grow spiritually in your darkness. 40:21 You may be going through 40:22 the trauma of a divorce right now. 40:25 You may feel lonely, defeated, and discouraged. 40:29 You may have lost a job 40:31 and you're facing an economic challenge in your life. 40:35 You may be going through a very hard time 40:37 where you've struggled with habits 40:39 and you feel discouraged by that. 40:42 The Christ of Revelation speaks to you right now. 40:46 Whoever you are, wherever you are, 40:49 Jesus is saying to you, in the wilderness of your life, 40:53 in the darkness of your life, I'm going to nourish your soul. 40:56 I have never lost a battle with Satan before 40:59 and I'm not going to lose the battle in your life. 41:01 Now notice what about this, 1,260 years? 41:03 The Bible prophecy often uses code languages. 41:07 And just like those code-breakers in Bletchley Park 41:10 with Alan Turing, 41:11 who had to break the code of the German Enigma codes, 41:15 so God uses code language in the Book of Revelation. 41:18 He talks about beasts 41:19 or kingdoms that rise up out of the sea. 41:21 And we'll be studying those in this series. 41:25 That's why you don't want to miss 41:26 one of these presentations. 41:28 But here, and he talks about this 1,260 days, 41:32 he's using code language again, a prophetic period. 41:36 Now some scholars, 41:38 even non-Christian scholars 41:40 talk about a period of the Dark Ages. 41:42 And here in this 1,260 day period, 41:47 there's code language. 41:48 What are these literal days? 41:50 What does the Bible say? 41:51 Numbers 14:3, says, 41:53 "According to the number of days 41:55 in which you spied out the land, 41:57 forty days, for each day 41:59 you shall bear your guilt one year, 42:01 namely forty years." 42:02 You remember the story, Israel spied out the land. 42:05 They spied it out for 40 days. 42:10 And God predicted they would wander 42:12 the wilderness for 40 years. 42:15 It's in the Bible we call this the day-year principle. 42:19 In other words, one prophetic day 42:20 equals one literal year. 42:22 Now every time in the Bible, 42:24 the Bible used the word day that does not mean year. 42:28 A day is a day in the Bible. 42:30 But when you see 42:31 the prophetic symbolism of beasts, 42:32 when you have symbolic chapter, 42:35 that day-year principle applies. 42:37 Ezekiel 4:6, again, you have that same principle. 42:40 "I've laid on you a day for a," what? 42:42 "A year." 42:43 So throughout the Book of Revelation 42:44 and the Book of Daniel, 42:46 we have great empires that rise Babylon, Medo-Persia, 42:49 Greece, and Rome. 42:50 Some of you have studied that before. 42:51 We have the divisions of the Roman Empire. 42:53 Then we have this long period known as the Dark Ages. 42:56 That period of Dark Ages began 42:58 when the Roman Church and State united, 43:01 the Roman Church had driven out 43:04 the last of the barbarian tribes defeated them, 43:07 the Ostrogoths, from Rome at the time. 43:10 And most scholars look at this 1,260 prophetic days or years 43:15 as beginning in 538 AD. 43:18 That would take us to 1798. 43:21 What indeed would happen at that period of time? 43:24 You know, during that Dark Ages, 43:25 the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, 43:28 "We are hard pressed on every side 43:30 but we're not crushed, 43:31 we are perplexed, but not in despair, 43:34 we are persecuted, not forsaken, 43:35 was struck down but not destroyed." 43:38 During those 1,260 years, church and state had united. 43:41 And when church and state united 43:43 during that period of time, 43:44 God's people were persecuted, they were oppressed. 43:48 The mighty power of the church 43:50 persecuted those that did not go along. 43:52 But as the Bible says, they were hard pressed. 43:55 God's people were hard pressed but they were not crushed. 43:57 They were perplexed, but they were not in despair. 44:00 They were persecuted, but not forsaken. 44:01 They're struck down, but not destroyed. 44:03 God preserved His people during that period of time. 44:06 At the end of that 1,260 years, 44:08 Napoleon sent his General Berthier to south. 44:12 They captured the Pope of Rome Pius VI on November 20, 1798, 44:17 and he died in captivity. 44:19 During that long period of persecution, 44:23 what happened? 44:24 God's people were victorious! 44:27 The light of truth was not totally snuffed out. 44:31 Four episodes in Revelation Chapter 12 44:33 that sets the tone 44:34 for these Three Cosmic Messages. 44:36 Episode number one, Christ win, Satan loses. 44:39 Evil angels are cast out of heaven. 44:41 They do not prevail. 44:42 Episode number two, Jesus comes, 44:44 He's born as a babe in Bethlehem's manger. 44:47 Satan focuses the forces of hell 44:49 and tries to destroy Him. 44:51 Jesus wins, Satan loses. Christ dies. 44:55 Salvation is yours, it's mine. 44:57 The kingdom of God has come. 45:00 Jesus is resurrected from the dead. 45:04 He lives as our great high priest. 45:07 In that episode number one, Jesus win, Satan loses. 45:09 Episode number three, 45:11 long period of darkness, church, state unite, 45:13 people of God persecuted, 45:15 but the light of truth is not snuffed out. 45:18 God's people are not ultimately completely destroyed. 45:22 They win in this period of darkness. 45:25 Throughout the Middle Ages 45:27 God has always been with His people. 45:30 He's never left them. 45:31 But we come now, 45:33 and notice this wonderful statement in a book 45:35 on the life of Christ 45:37 called Desire of Ages, page 679, 45:39 "Christ rejoiced that 45:40 He could do more for His followers 45:42 than they could ask or think. 45:43 He spoke with assurance, knowing that an almighty decree 45:47 had been given before the world was made. 45:49 He knew that truth, 45:51 armed with the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit, 45:53 would conquer in the contest with evil. 45:55 And that the bloodstained banner 45:58 would wave triumphantly over His followers. 46:01 He knew that the life of His trusting disciples 46:04 would be like His, 46:06 a series of uninterrupted victories, 46:08 not seen to be such here, 46:10 but recognized as such in the great hereafter." 46:13 A series of what? 46:15 Uninterrupted victories. 46:19 Your life can be one of victory. 46:21 You are on the winning side. 46:24 Episode number four, 46:25 Satan is going to viciously attack God's last day people 46:29 and that's what this series is going to focus on, 46:31 particularly in the three angels' messages. 46:33 But we've studied it historically. 46:35 In this presentation, 46:37 Satan's gonna viciously attack the remnant, 46:39 but Jesus is going to win, Satan's going to lose. 46:41 Look, Revelation 12:17, 46:43 "The dragon was enraged with a woman," 46:45 what's enrage mean? 46:47 Angry. Who's the dragon? 46:48 Satan. "And he goes to make war." 46:50 Satan made war in heaven, 46:51 he's made war down through the centuries, 46:53 and he will make war with God's last day people. 46:56 He'll make war with God's remnant church. 46:59 "He went to make war with the rest of her offspring, 47:02 who keep the commandments of God 47:05 and have the testimony of Jesus." 47:07 In the last days of earth's history, 47:09 God will have a people, a divine movement of destiny, 47:13 a people that are committed to Christ, 47:15 a people that are sold out to Christ, 47:17 people that love Christ more than anything else, 47:20 and they because of their love will respond 47:23 obediently and keep His commandments. 47:25 The question in the great controversy 47:28 between good and evil is who has our loyalty? 47:33 Who is your loyalty right now? 47:36 Are you totally sold out to Christ? 47:39 Are you on the winning side? 47:42 Down through the ages, 47:43 Jesus has never lost a battle with Satan. 47:46 He's not going to lose the battle 47:47 in the final conflict. 47:48 You and I can be on the winning side. 47:52 Although we might find oppression, persecution, 47:56 difficulty, challenges, Christ will never leave us. 48:00 Christ will never forsake us. 48:01 I think of the story of Dan Crawford. 48:03 He was called by the Africans, 48:05 Konga Vantu, means, the gather of the people. 48:08 He was one of the followers 48:12 or protegees of David Livingston. 48:15 Born in December 7, 1870, he died in June 23, 1926. 48:20 Dan Crawford was a mighty witness for Christ. 48:24 He travelled to the ends of the earth, 48:26 went into the jungles and primitive areas 48:29 in Africa and shared Jesus. 48:32 On one occasion he was sleeping and as he yawned, 48:35 he hit a table, terrible gash in his arm. 48:39 He wrote about it this way in his diary. 48:42 "This week I suffer under a grave disability. 48:44 My left arm is poisoned. 48:46 This poising is knifing me very hard. 48:49 So we are in God's hand, and all this well. 48:52 It is harrowing and might have been avoided, 48:54 only I was sleeping 48:56 in my little den in a deep sleep. 48:57 This made me forget the iodine, 49:00 which is the panacea of my life. 49:03 To say that it is harrowing is only to remind you 49:07 that it is the harrow that produces 49:09 the smiling lands of corn, and this explains that, 49:13 'we glory in tribulation,' verse, but do we? 49:17 Goodbye dear friends. 49:19 We will meet at the appearing in excellent glory.'" 49:25 Dan Crawford died there in Africa. 49:28 His body is buried not far from Lake Mweru. 49:34 It is there in the Democratic Congo, 49:37 buried with other missionaries. 49:40 And as he died, he wrote something just 49:44 before his death in the flyleaf of his Bible. 49:48 I have written it in the flyleaf of my Bible. 49:51 It shows that we may go through challenges, 49:54 we may go through difficulties, 49:56 we may go through heartaches, 49:58 but we are on the winning side. 50:01 Notice what he wrote, "I cannot do it alone. 50:05 The waves dash fast and high. 50:08 The fog and mist set in. The light goes out in the sky. 50:13 But I know in the end, 50:15 we too shall win, Jesus and I. 50:20 A coward, wayward and weak, 50:24 I change with the changing sky. 50:27 Today I'm so strong and brave, 50:30 but tomorrow, I'm too weak to try. 50:34 But he never gives up, 50:36 and in the end, 50:38 we too shall win, Jesus and I." 50:44 Jesus reaches out to you right now. 50:50 The Book of Revelation invite you 50:54 to come to the Lamb of God, 50:57 to let Him wash you with His grace, 51:00 to let Him fill you with His love, 51:04 to let Him change you by His spirit. 51:07 He has never lost a battle with the evil one yet. 51:12 Will you reach out right now as Charles sings, 51:15 Precious Lord, take my hand. 51:18 Lead me on and help me stand through the dark 51:23 and through the night. 51:25 Lead me on to the light. 51:27 Listen as Charles comes to sing. 51:40 Precious Lord 51:45 Take my hand 51:48 Lead me on 51:53 Help me stand 51:57 I am tired 52:00 And I'm weak 52:04 I'm lone 52:10 Through the storm 52:15 Through the night 52:19 Lead me on 52:22 To your light 52:26 Take my hand, 52:29 Precious Lord 52:35 Lead me home 52:44 When my way 52:48 Grows drear 52:52 Precious Lord, 52:55 Just linger near 52:59 When my light 53:03 Is almost gone 53:13 Hear my cry 53:17 Hear my call 53:21 Hold my hand lest 53:26 I fall 53:29 Take my hand, 53:32 Precious Lord 53:37 Lead me home 53:43 Take my hand, 53:47 Precious Lord 53:51 Lead 54:00 Me home 54:11 This world is headed for a tremendous crisis, 54:16 a crisis of epidemic proportions that you 54:21 and I can hardly realize. 54:24 Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. 54:28 The institutions that we have once had confidence 54:32 in will crumble. 54:34 Before the coming of Jesus, there is only one thing 54:38 that will get you through. 54:40 And that is trust and confidence in Him. 54:44 And not only will we go through 54:46 a crisis at the time of the end, 54:48 but many of us are facing crisis today, 54:52 crisis's that we ourselves 54:54 are incapable of handling. 54:58 Right now, Jesus says to you, 55:00 "My child, I have never lost 55:03 a battle with Satan yet. 55:07 I've never lost one conflict with the evil one. 55:12 And I'm with you. 55:14 I will never leave you. 55:16 I'll never forsake you. 55:18 I am there for you." 55:21 Will you right now reach out to Him? 55:25 Will you right now open your heart to Him? 55:29 Will you say Jesus, "I am yours"? 55:34 I don't want to play games. 55:35 Every angel in heaven had to make a choice. 55:38 In the days of Jesus, 55:39 men and women had to make a choice. 55:41 In the Middle Ages, they had to make a choice. 55:44 And in the last days of earth's history, 55:47 every human being will be led to that choice. 55:50 As we pray right now, would you like to say, 55:53 "Jesus, I am yours totally, 55:58 completely, absolutely yours?" 56:00 Let's pray. 56:02 Father in heaven, 56:03 thank You so much for the Living Christ. 56:08 Thank You that we are on the winning side. 56:11 Thank You that You defeated Satan in heaven, 56:17 that You defeated Satan on earth in the days of Christ. 56:19 You defeated him in the Middle Ages. 56:21 You defeated him in every age of earth's history, 56:24 Thank You, Jesus 56:26 that You are the victorious Lord 56:28 and be victorious in our lives. 56:29 We give our lives to You now. 56:31 Do for us what we cannot do for ourselves 56:34 and may we through Christ and by Christ 56:36 because of Christ be overcomers, 56:38 in Jesus' name, amen. 56:41 God bless you, my friend. 56:43 I look forward to seeing you next time 56:46 as we probe even more deeply these messages, 56:51 Earth's Final Conflict, Three Cosmic Messages. 56:55 You don't want to miss one of these presentations. 56:58 Next time, we'll go into Revelation, 57:01 the 14th Chapter. 57:02 And there, we'll begin to look at 57:06 the theme of Earth's Final Harvest. 57:10 Stay with us. 57:12 Invite friends to watch this series with you. 57:16 And today, leave with the assurance 57:20 that your hand is in the hand of the Living Christ. 57:24 Amen. |
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