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Revelation Has Begun
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| Chapter 1, verse 1 of the book of Revelation. | |
| Chapter 1, verse 1. | |
| And I just, I'm going to read the first verse. | |
| Where are we? | |
| One of the things that is the biggest problem, people are mixed up about the scriptures. | |
| They don't even read the Revelation, most of them. | |
| And the Revelation is the now book. | |
| Say now book, would you? | |
| Now book. | |
| Now. | |
| It's now. | |
| It's where we are now. | |
| And so what's happening? | |
| Revelation has begun. | |
| We're living in the last days. | |
| We're living in the beginning of sorrows. | |
| These are the times. | |
| It's not going to get better and better. | |
| There's nowhere in the Bible it says it's going to get better, and you're going to just come out and fly up in utopia and end up in heaven because you're so good. | |
| The revelation of Jesus Christ, chapter 1, verse 1, which God gave unto him to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. | |
| And he sent and signified it by his messenger or angel unto his servant John. | |
| This word literally came from Jesus, which was the messenger. | |
| Jesus brought the message to John. | |
| You've got to understand in the Bible, this word in the Greek, angel, means preacher or messenger and angel. | |
| You've just got to study and divide the word to understand it as you separate the meanings there, and you will learn what God is wanting to say. | |
| All right. | |
| But here's where people get mixed up. | |
| Go back, look at it. | |
| The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, unto Jesus Christ, to show unto his servant, that's John, things which must shortly come to pass. | |
| The word shortly is wrong. | |
| That's not the word. | |
| If you study the Greek, you'll realize that this is a Greek word actually made up of two words. | |
| That's why when you study the Greek, there's so much. | |
| It's like a bonus pack or something. | |
| You can buy these slipperies with the giant size. | |
| Well, this is the giant size. | |
| That's what Greek does to it. | |
| It's amazing what's in that words. | |
| As you study those words, if you want to know what's going on, you need to know what shortly means, okay? | |
| It doesn't mean shortly. | |
| What does it mean? | |
| It's two words, Mando. | |
| It's Greek. | |
| The first word is fixed place in time. | |
| Shortly does not mean shortly. | |
| It means fixed in time. | |
| Fixed place in time. | |
| That's part of it. | |
| A space or period within which anything takes place. | |
| So it's a fixed place in time. | |
| And it means when started, it will happen suddenly. | |
| So let's get back. | |
| There's more. | |
| That's only half the word. | |
| Dear God. | |
| Understand Greek? | |
| What happened is in English, we just took all the Greek words and put them together. | |
| And here is a Greek word that should be, when started, will happen suddenly. | |
| So, what happened? | |
| Let's go back to the first revelation. | |
| The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to show unto us and to his servants, things which must shortly come to pass. | |
| No, that was written 2,000 years ago. | |
| But what it means is when it starts, things which, when they begin to start, they will start, and they will all take place in a fixed period of time. | |
| The other half of this word in the Greek, I always call it takos, T-A-C-H-O-S. | |
| That's how you come. | |
| It's like takos. | |
| Takos. | |
| So a brief space in time, it will come to pass or come into being. | |
| So the revelation of Jesus Christ, this book of Revelation, when these revelation events, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, all these events, when they start to take place, they're going to happen in a fixed place in time. | |
| And that's where we are. | |
| They're happening. | |
| God says, all these things. | |
| All the earth is going to shake. | |
| The sea and the waves are going to roar. | |