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June 12, 2024 - Jim Bakker Show
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Jim Bakker Sermon 10
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Saw Vision Into God's Throne Room 00:10:10
In chapter 4 of the book of Revelation, on our last study, John was in the throne room.
Do you remember that?
We found John there, and he saw the majesty of God.
And we saw a vision into the throne room of God.
This is not the rapture.
Revelation 4, 1, I do not believe it.
I don't believe.
I mean, I'm so strong on it.
It just can't be.
If you know the systematic study of the Bible, there's no way that that moment would be somehow a secret taking out that isn't talked about.
It just can't be.
It's not fitting with proper interpretation of the Bible.
And so John is just invited up to see heaven and to prepare for this unbelievable vision he's about to see.
We're about to unveil.
And he saw the throne room of God.
He saw the rainbow around the throne.
He saw the 24 elders.
We talked about that.
We saw the four living creatures.
Some versions call them the four beasts.
They're not beasts.
They're living creatures.
They are created beings.
They are like angels.
They are God's messengers.
They are God's created beings.
They are worship leaders in heaven, perhaps.
They seem to have charge of the throne room.
We just saw into this vision.
And there's a lot more to come of these four living beings.
And we saw the sea of glass, of gold, gold like glass.
Oh, we got into that.
We won't be able to go back there now.
But then we met the seven spirits of God.
And we talked about that.
But these four living beings are important because they're about to do something.
They're about to take us on the adventure of our lifetime.
And let's look back at Revelation 4, 6 because it's so important.
Now, we had to rush a little bit at the close last time.
Revelation 4, 6.
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal.
And in the midst of the throne and around about the throne were four beasts, four living beings, full of eyes before them and behind them.
And the first beast was like a lion.
And the second beast like a calf.
And the third beast had a face as a man.
And the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about them.
And they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night.
They don't get tired like us.
They were saying, Holy, holy, holy, God Almighty, which was and is and is to come.
And when those living beings gave glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth forever and ever, the four and twenty, the 24 elders fell down before God and him that sat upon the throne and worship him that liveth forever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying, thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things for thy pleasure.
They are and were created.
Go quickly to Ezekiel 1.1.
We read just a little bit of this.
The Bible ties together.
The Bible, oh, I'm learning so much stuff.
I just wish I had more than an hour because I can't get it all in in one hour.
I'm just finding these wonderful beings.
I'm finding them throughout the Bible.
Oh, it is so exciting.
Go to Ezekiel 1.1.
And it says here in verse 1, it says, the heavens were open, and I saw a vision of God.
Is that right?
And then down in verse 3, it says, This word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest.
And verse 4, go on.
It looks, and I looked and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north.
A great cloud and fire unfolding itself in brightness was about it.
And out of the midst thereof is the color of amber out of the midst of the fire.
We know God's a consuming fire, don't we?
Remember what Moses ran into up in that mountain.
Also, out of the midst there came the likeness of four living creatures.
Uh-oh, we're back in the Old Testament.
Here they are.
The four living King James in the Old Testament calls them living creatures instead of beasts now.
Thank God we got that far with it.
Don't fall in love with any Bible, any version of the Bible.
Fall in love with the word of the living God.
Study to show yourself approved, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Amen.
We got to study the word to know the Greek and the Hebrew original.
You know, I see preachers, I hear preachers on television.
They mock other men who use Greek and Hebrew.
Bless God, I'm using King James, the authority one.
Oh, people, King James is only a few hundred years old.
Let's not worship something like that.
Let's find out what God says.
I'm going to show you tonight some amazing things in one word difference in the King James Bible that makes all the difference in the world.
So, also out of the midst there came the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance.
They had the likeness of a man.
Everyone had four faces, and everyone had four wings, and their feet were straight feet, and their sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled at the color of burnished brass.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on the four sides.
And they had the four had their faces and their way.
Listen, quickly, I use the parallel Bible.
I'm going to read this in the living Bible because it's English, plain, ordinary today English.
This is sort of strange stuff.
This is Star Wars stuff.
These beings are like stuff they have on the screen in Star Wars.
I mean, the younger generation, if I could teach the kids this, they're going to love it.
The kids will take this.
And most churches aren't even preaching Revelation, and the kids would love it.
They have to go to the movies to get this kind of stuff.
God has more creatures, more beings, more excitement than you've ever thought about.
It's not spooky.
It's not strange.
It's God's creation.
You and I are created in the image of God, and God has other created beings.
He made everything in unison.
That's why they think we came from monkeys and we come from bears or polywat because all things are in harmony that God made.
We have the eyeballs of God, and God created that cornea that he put it in all the different animals so they could see.
We are, look at your hands, look at your body.
These are miracles.
You think you're from a little thing that crawled out of the sea, a little polywog eventually, and you come to this?
You're crazy.
It takes more faith to be an atheist than it to be a Christian.
If this is all accident, how come my eyes are up here and not down here?
How come when I eat food, I don't drop food into my eyes?
Because you're fearfully and wonderfully made.
You're made by God.
He is God.
And you start studying this book, it'll get you so excited that you're not going to be alone.
You're going to realize the Spirit of God is going about looking, taking care, and coming back to the throne and back to earth.
I'll tell you, we've got an awesome God.
I'm going to show you stuff tonight.
If we have time, you ought to make you shout.
You worry about demons all the time.
Demons are just a bunch of fallen angels.
There's only a few of them.
I'll tell you, there's so many angels.
The Bible says there's tens of thousands of tens of thousands.
There's millions of angels.
You're not alone.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Ezekiel 1-1.
Oh, I wish I had more time.
On July 31st, in my 13th year, while I was with the Jordan exiles beside the Kibar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened to me, and I saw visions of God.
This is from Ezekiel 1-1 in the living Bible, New Living Bible.
Verse 3, the Lord gave this message to me, Ezekiel.
Verse 4.
As I looked, I saw a great storm coming.
Listen to this, from the north.
This is the word of God, people.
I live in this every day.
I almost go crazy at home by myself when I'm studying.
You know, my wife thinks I'm crazy sometimes.
I'm saying, praise God.
I'm getting so excited over there.
Can't wait to preach it.
It just explodes.
He says, I looked, I saw a great storm coming from me from the north, driving forward a huge cloud.
Where does God come?
He has a cloud.
Remember that.
We know the signs of God, don't we?
That flashed with lightning.
That's a sign of God.
And shone with brilliant light.
The fire inside the cloud.
Remember Moses on Mount Sinai.
Remember, the cloud was there and it was like, what did the Bible say?
Like a devouring fire.
If you start knowing who God is and what his signals and signs are, you'll find him.
As you see them throughout the Bible, you're going to find out in this book of Revelation what it's all about.
Because the Bible calls the gospel the mystery and the mystery is interpreted through the word of the living God.
So I looked, I saw a great storm coming toward me from the north, driving forward a huge cloud that flashed with lightning and shone with brilliant light.
The fire inside the cloud glowed like gleaming amber.
From the center of the cloud came four living beings.
Four Wheels, Infinite Directions 00:06:49
Living beings.
These beings never die.
These are living beings that never die.
They're created by God.
We are in sinful nature, so we die.
But one of these days, we are going to be these divine beings and we're never going to die.
Our soul never dies.
So he had four living beings that looked human, except each had four faces.
I've heard of two-faced people.
Here's our four faces and two pairs of wings.
Their legs were straight like human legs, but their feet were split like calves' feet and shone like burnished bronze.
Remember the description of God in the Bible?
Beneath each of the wings, I could see human hands.
The wings of each living being touched the wings of the two beside.
The living beings were able to fly in any direction without turning around.
In other words, every face, they could just go straight.
They didn't have to turn anything.
They just go in any direction.
They just had this ability to go because they were facing every direction.
It's unbelievable, the description.
Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle on the back.
Some think that's Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
I don't think so, but people use that as a typology of them.
But I believe the human face is a description of the understanding of these beings because we have the ability, not like the animals, we have the ability to reason and understand.
And then the lion, I believe the lion is the bold, that has much more boldness than you and me.
And so I think the lion represents strength and a boldness.
And then the ox.
Oh, I think the ox, we need more oxes in the church.
The ox is diligent.
The ox is patient.
You ever heard the song, the word strong like an ox?
And we need some ox people that won't give up, that are faithful, that are diligent, that are patient, unwavering in work.
That's the ox.
And then the face of the eagle, the eagle is quickness in sight, sharp, has wisdom to see, and soaring high and can see as far into the distance and can discern divine mysteries, the wisdom.
That's the best I can do there.
I just think that's what it represents.
It may not, but all I know, it represents some heavenly creatures that are in the throne room and they come to earth.
You want to find out?
They travel.
Oh, God.
I know it sounds crazy, but it sounds like they travel in a spaceship.
You don't believe me?
Let's read on.
Each had two pairs of outstretched wings.
One pair stretched out to touch the wings of the living being on either side of it.
And the other pair covered his body.
They went in whatever direction the Spirit chose.
And they moved straight forward in all directions without having to turn around.
The living beings looked like bright coals of fire or brilliant torches.
And it looked as though lightning was flashing back and forth among them.
And the living beings darted to and fro like flashings of light.
As I looked at these beans, I saw four wheels on the ground beneath them.
One wheel belonged to each.
The wheel sparkles if made of chrysolite or topaz.
Some say sea green, sort of in color of that particular stone.
All four wheels looked the same.
Each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
A wheel inside of a wheel.
Scientists could tell you something about that.
That has power right there.
The beings could move forward in any four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
The rims of the four wheels were awesomely tall.
They were huge.
These were huge spaceships.
I better not say that.
Huge.
Something that these beings traveled in.
I just wonder if all these sightings of spaceships might be somebody has had an opening into heaven.
Into the heavenly.
I don't know, but I'm telling you, this is in the Bible.
How come you can make a whole doctrine on a half a verse and one half of one word, and you don't read all this stuff about the four living beings that is in the Bible over and over throughout the whole Bible?
Hmm?
We need to know more about supernatural because you're going to need the supernatural power of God just to survive in the days to come.
And you're going to be thankful you've got the Spirit of God, that the Spirit from the throne room of God.
You're going to be thankful you've got people on your side.
You've got living beings on your side, that you've got angels on your side, millions and millions of angels.
So, verse 15: I looked at these beans.
I saw four wheels on the ground beneath them.
One wheel belonged to each.
The wheels sparkled as if made of chrysolite.
All four wheels looked at the same.
Each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
What a description.
The beans could move forward in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
The rims of the four wheels were awesomely tall.
They were covered with eyes all around the edges.
Like windows.
When the four living beings moved, the wheels moved with them.
When they flew upward, the wheels went up too.
The spirit of the four living beings was in the wheels in these ships or whatever the thing it is.
So wherever the spirit went, the wheels and the living beings went too.
When the living beings moved, the wheels moved.
When the living beings stopped, the wheels stopped.
When the living beings flew up in the air, the wheels rose up.
For the spirit of the living beings was in the wheel.
How can somebody thousands of years ago try to describe what they're seeing?
This is a description from thousands of years ago, before we had any airplanes, before we had anything that could fly.
You got to think about this.
This was in ages where not very much creative stuff was around.
I mean, not man's creation, it was God's creation.
There was a surface spread out above them like the sky.
It sparkled like crystal.
You look this up in the Hebrew, it says it was like ice, frost, and bald and smooth.
I don't think it meant that these angelic beings are bald-headed.
I don't know, but it said they were, it's like frost above them in a whiteness like diamonds.
Beneath this surface, the wings of each living being stretched out to touch the other wings, and each had two wings covering his body.
God's Sign Appears 00:08:40
As they flew, their wings roared like waves crashing against the shore, or like the voice of the Almighty, or like the shouting of a mighty army.
When they stopped, they let down their wings.
As they stood with their wings lowered, a voice spoke from beyond the crystal surface above them.
Above the surface, over their heads, was what looked like a throne made of blue sapphire.
And high above this throne was a figure whose appearance was like that of a man.
From his waist up, he looked like gleaming amber, flickering like a fire.
And from his waist down, he looked like a burning flame shining with splendor.
All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining through the clouds.
What is God's sign?
The rainbow.
This was the way the glory of the Lord appeared to me.
When I saw it, I fell down in the dust, and I heard some voice speaking, someone's voice speaking to me.
Quickly, oh, I don't have time.
Go there anyway.
Zachariah 6.
Run over there.
Quick.
Go to Zachariah 6.
We've got so much to do.
We haven't even gotten into Revelation 5, and we've got to go through a whole chapter yet in the next few minutes.
And I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains, and the mountains were brass.
Were mountains of brass.
And look at this, verse 2.
Are you watching it?
Are you watching it?
And in the first chariot with red horses.
A second chariot, black horses.
The third chariot, white horses.
The fourth chariot, grizzled, and bay horses.
Oh my God, it sounds like these are the same horses that are going to ride.
Could this be back in Zachariah?
Could this be back in the Old Testament?
Could this be some of the horses that are going to be used in the four horses of the apocalypse?
My Lord, look on.
And then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord?
And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four spirits of the heavens which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
The black horse which are there and go forth into the north country.
And the white go forth after them.
And the grizzled go forth toward the south country.
And the bay went forth and they sought to go that they might walk to and fro throughout the earth.
He said, get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth.
So they walk to and fro throughout the earth.
These four represent going to the four corners of the world.
Quick, Matthew 24, 31.
Then we're going to Revelation 5.
Matthew 24, 31.
Are you getting excited at all about these creatures, about what God's word is about?
It's not a mystery.
It's only a mystery if you don't study it.
God has heavenly beings.
He has a creation beyond this earth.
He has heavens.
Millions and millions of created beings are there in heaven right now.
Matthew 24, 31.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds From one end of heaven to the others.
That's what's going to happen.
That's what Jesus said would take place in the last days, according to the words asked him by his disciples.
When would be the sign of the coming of the Lord, the end of the world.
Revelation chapter 5, are you there?
Oh, well, that was our review.
I just wanted to make sure we understand a little bit more about these created beings, these four wonderful characters on God's great panorama screen of life.
Revelation chapter 5, verse 1, God bless it as we open this book now.
And I saw, I saw, remember, it's 35 times in the book of Revelation.
That one phrase, and Saul is many more times.
But I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book.
Now, they didn't have books back there.
Here's where King James took liberty.
It's a roll or scroll.
Couldn't have been a book.
They didn't have books back then.
You know?
So this is why I'm telling you: don't worship one translation.
I've got to get it through your head because it's causing a lot of problems in people's lives by not understanding the truth of God's word.
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a scroll written within and on the backside.
I believe this means it is a complete word.
It is finished.
What is written is the final word.
It's on the front.
It's on the back.
There's no more room.
It is finished.
And written on the back side and sealed.
And that means that it was like the signet ring of a king.
That seal.
It was sealed.
A mark of privacy.
A mark of genuineness.
This book was sealed.
This scroll that we read about with seven seals.
Say seven seals.
Seven seals is going to complete this book of Revelation.
And we have got a trip as we go through the opening of these seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel, messenger of God, strong one, a big one, proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy, who is deserving, who is suitable to open the book and to loose the seals thereof.
The seal and the scrolls are now the center of attention.
It's sealed.
It's secret.
Daniel 12:4 says, But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, seal the book, even to the time of the end.
Men shall run to and fro.
Many shall run to and fro.
And knowledge shall be increased.
This is that seal.
These things are sealed.
And that's why it's time to open the book for Revelation.
We are in the last days when knowledge has been increased.
Men shall run into it.
We can't keep up with the knowledge.
Do you know what I'm getting in the mail tomorrow?
I'm getting in the mail tomorrow two CDs.
Two CDs, two little discs, like this.
Two CDs.
Now listen to me.
I'm getting two C D's in the mail tomorrow.
And on those two C D's is the entire Bible spoken.
90 hours of the Bible.
90 hours.
The whole Bible read by our dear friend on two little discs.
That's technology.
That's knowledge being increased.
And that's nothing compared.
Kids have a little watch with a little box.
You see those boxes?
Grandma, you don't even know what they got on their wrist.
Your grandson's got a, looks like Dick Tracy's Wonder Watch that we were dreaming about when we were kids.
But you know what they got on their wonder watches?
Seven, eight hundred hours of music in stereo.
Right there.
Knowledge has increased so much that we can't keep up with it.
These cameras right here are beautiful, but they're obsolete.
I started with Christian television, and we helped, we brought the first color to Christian, full-time Christian television.
And the cameras were so big they looked like elephants.
They cost a quarter of a million dollars apiece.
Now we can build a whole studio for a quarter of a million dollars.
Knowledge has been increased, people were in the last days.
I keep telling you, my father went to Washington State in a horse-drawn buggy carriage, a wagon.
And he just passed on a few years back.
Knowledge has been increased in our time.
Grandpa, you know that, don't you?
Grandpa, is any old grannies here?
Anybody old enough to know anything besides?
Surely got to be somebody older than me.
I mean, we're there, people.
Seven Seals, Perfect Power 00:06:38
The seven seals guarantee that no one has ever gained access to what's inside that we're going to open up.
This was sealed.
But no one is qualified to open the seals.
Look at verse 3.
And no man.
And I'm telling you, that means in the Greek, it means no man, no woman, none, nobody.
It doesn't leave out anybody.
Nobody in heaven, nor in earth, near under the earth, was able to open the book, needed to look therein.
And I wept.
This is old John, the old man.
How old was John here?
90 years old.
You remembered?
90 years old.
And he weeps.
And it means he sobbed.
He wailed aloud.
This wasn't just, oh, he goes, ah!
I mean, he was weeping.
He was wailing.
Why?
Much, because no man, no man, no woman, nobody was found worthy to open and read the book, needed to look therein.
John wept because he was not able to finish the job that God was telling him he had to do.
Here he was in this vision.
He had a mandate from God.
He was to tell this message to the churches.
He was to write it down.
And now no one could open the book.
No one could open the scroll.
He knew of Satan's plan to rule the world.
John knew that.
And, you know, he's a mortal man.
So he's saying, oh, my God, there's a battle between good and evil.
Now no one's going to be able to open the scroll.
And John wrote in John 14, 30 about Satan.
He called Satan for the prince of the world.
He called him the prince of the world.
And he knew that Jesus came to destroy the prince of evil, the prince of the world.
John knew that Jesus had told him to pray that his kingdom would come.
And the devil didn't want his kingdom to come.
John wept because no one could open the scroll.
It meant that Satan would win.
It was tearing John apart.
Grandpa, John, weeping, wailing.
Good news.
Turn back to Revelation 5.5.
Now, are you there?
Here we are.
I know you have a hard time following me, but I have to go faster on some of these because if I give you every reference time to look it up, we won't get there.
But I'm putting it here so you get the tapes.
You verify every word I speak.
I don't want you to believe in Jim Baker.
I want you to believe in the word of God.
And if what I give you is wrong, then you study it.
But you need to stop believing preachers.
You better believe God's word.
Because we preachers have led you astray.
We have told you to love money.
We have been teaching you to love the things of the world.
We've been teaching you that God wants you to be rich more than anything else.
We've been teaching you to get new cars, new houses, and new lands.
And Jesus Christ had nothing good to say about money.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
And you're believing anything that comes out of the pulpit today.
And you've got clever men in the pulpit.
They can speak.
They can make you laugh.
They can make you jolly.
They can make you spellbound.
But you better find out if it's in the Bible.
Because the Bible says, narrow is the way, and few say few.
What does that mean?
Not many.
Few there be that find it.
Revelation 5:5.
Are you there?
And one of the leaders, the elders, said unto me, Weep not, stop your crying.
Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
Who's that?
Jesus, the root of David.
Who's that?
Has prevailed.
He has conquered victory.
He has become the victor.
It means he has prevailed.
That means he has gotten the victory to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb.
Not a lion, but a lamb.
John 1:29.
The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
So here he sees this lamb up in heaven as if it had been slain.
The word translated here, slain, really needs to be blood more than death.
Blood sacrifice.
The word here translated slain in verse 6 occurs only here and in verse 9 and 12 and in Revelation 13:8.
It is the blood even more than death that connotes sacrifice.
For one may die without being slain and may be slain without being made a sacrifice.
Jesus died as a sacrifice and gave his blood.
He is the lamb of God.
He is the one.
See, you got to understand the Old Testament to understand what the Lamb of God is all about.
That in the Old Testament there had to be a Lamb for sin.
Today, Jesus went to the cross.
He is our Lamb and He's up in heaven.
He has sinned and he went up there and he's there, the Bible says.
He's the king of heaven.
It has been slain, having seven horns.
That seven horns, I believe, means perfect power.
You'll see the horns of the enemy.
Well, the horns as we go throughout the Old Testament, I mean, the Revelation, and we'll go back to the Old Testament.
We're going to learn about these kings.
We'll learn about the evil and the horns.
But this is the horns on the lamb, meaning perfect power.
Seven, perfect power for Jesus Christ.
And seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And he came and he took the book or the scroll out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne, Jesus Christ.
Look at this picture.
He goes to the Father on the throne, and the Father gives the only one who can open that scroll.
He gives it to his son, Jesus, right here.
Prayers Of The Saints 00:08:36
Jesus takes the scroll from his father's hand.
Verse 8.
And we had taken the book, the scroll, the four living beings, the beast, and the four and 20, the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, before Jesus, having every one of them harps.
Oh my God.
Can you imagine the music of heaven?
I could just run almost.
I get so excited.
Heaven is so wonderful, so real.
So they had the harps and the golden vials full of odors, odors, incense, it means, perfumed, smoking, just it's and what is it?
Which are the prayers of the saints.
Hallelujah.
You talk about the tears being bottled up.
I'm telling you, the prayers never stop.
They never go away.
I'm telling you, when I was in prison, I told you how God lifted me up off that bed of despair as I looked to the wall wanting to die when I had given up and like magic.
And I don't supposed to use that word in Christianity, but it was just something was like lifting me, just lifting me, just lifting me.
I felt arms around me.
And I said, God, what is this?
He said, this is the prayers of God's people.
I felt the prayers.
I felt your prayers.
I felt them through those prison doors, through those bars.
I felt it.
I've been there.
You can't tell me.
I have the experience.
I've been there.
I've been abandoned.
I've been put away.
And I know what it is to have the presence of God envelop you and hug you.
Your prayers are powerful.
Quickly, look over at Revelation 8:3.
Then another angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar.
And a great quantity of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of God's people.
Oh, I don't understand that.
I don't know.
I'm telling you, your prayers has either a liquid or a powder form.
I don't know what happens, but it's accumulating up in heaven.
And it's got power.
It's got power.
The prayers, my grandma's prayers, I think, is still living.
So don't fool with me.
Great quantity of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of God's people to be offered on the golden altar before the throne.
The smoke of the incense mixed with the prayers of the saints ascended up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.
Hallelujah.
Verse 9.
Get back, verse 5, verse chapter 5, verse 9.
And they sang a new song.
Boy, that in the Greek, that's the new covenant.
They sang the new covenant song.
The Lamb, the Lamb.
Through the blood of Jesus slain, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and has redeemed us.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
That word us is not in the Bible.
It's not in the original text.
It's in your King James, but it's not in the original Bible.
In fact, you look it up in the Greek, and they'll say, King James added this word.
Now, so it should be, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and has redeemed.
Us is not up there yet.
It's just a little thing.
It's not big.
It's just a little thing.
But thou hast redeemed to God by the blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.
The rapture has not taken place yet.
Revelation 4:1 is not the rapture.
The elders are not saying us, but them.
That word should be them, has redeemed them as a company apart from themselves.
Moreover, if so great a company of the redeemed were present and they were failure or failed to appear at this moment and join in this new song, it's utterly unexplainable that they wouldn't be there.
The redeemed at this moment.
Let's look at Revelation 5:9 and 10 in the NIV.
And they sang a new song, you are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals because you were slain.
And with your blood, you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nations.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priest to serve our God, and they will reign on earth.
This is not the Redeemed singing.
You have to look in every translation of every scholar.
But then look at the Greek and see what it says.
Let's look at the same verse in Revelation 5, 9, and 10 in the RSV.
And they sang a new song saying, Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals?
For thou wast slain, and by the blood this ransomed men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation and has made them a kingdom and priest to our God.
And they shall reign on earth.
This is not a big deal.
I just want you to know it.
I mean, it's just.
Do you know the Bible says to make friends out of unrighteous mammon?
That doesn't make sense.
What is unrighteous mammon?
It's money.
Why would Jesus say make friends of money?
He didn't say that.
There's a word missing.
There's an extra word in there, too.
And if you study it, Jesus is saying to make friends with your money.
Matthew 25, help people.
Help the poor.
What is God going to do to separate the sheep from the goats?
He said, I'm going to separate the sheep.
I'm going to judge you at the day of judgment on what you've done to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to visit the prisoners.
He didn't say go make friends with money.
That's carnal.
That's the opposite of Jesus.
Get real.
Study the Bible.
Know Jesus.
If you know him, you know he's not going to tell you to make friends with money.
He was sold for money.
He's saying, if you've got a lot of money, make friends with it.
In other words, go out and give to the poor, and they're going to stand up for you on the day of judgment.
Don't believe me.
Read Matthew 25.
I didn't write the book.
I just read it.
I'm not an expert.
I'm a student.
Do you understand?
We've missed it royally.
We're out teaching people all across America.
Millions of churches, millions of people are studying how to get rich, and Jesus is telling us, go help the poor.
Oh, I've got to get money so I can help the poor.
Hogwash.
They get the money and they don't help the poor.
I'll shut up.
Verse 10.
And has made, it says us.
Study it.
It's them in the Greek.
It has made them unto God kings, royalty, and priest.
And we shall.
I'm sorry to tell you, we shall is not in the original manuscripts of the Bible.
It was two more words added by our dear friend King James and the boys and has made them unto God's kings and priests and reign on earth.
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There's rejoicing in heaven.
The seals will be broken and the scroll is going to be opened.
Isn't that good?
Verse 11, and I behold and beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels.
Oh, look at Luke 2:13 if you got time.
You can get there fast.
Luke, see this vine, Matthew, Mark, Luke.
Luke 2:13, and suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest on earth, peace, goodwill towards men.
And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into the heavens, the shepherds said one to another, let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Oh, the angels are at great moments of heaven.
The angels declare his glory.
The angels came to tell the people the king is coming as a baby.
And they're going to be a part of this great moment when time is no more.
So here we go.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels, verse 11, around about the throne, and the beast, the living beings, and the elders.
And the number of them was, get this, 10,000 times 10,000.
A thousand times 1,000 is a million.
What is 10,000 times 10,000?
And thousands of thousands.
That's millions and millions and multitudes of millions and hundreds of millions.
Oh, my God.
And you're worried and you don't sleep at night.
My God, if he wants to send a hundred million angels to your house, he can do it.
We're on the winning side.
That little puny army of the devil.
and we cower back at a few stinking dropouts from heaven.
Satan was kicked out of heaven.
He wanted to be God, and he took a bunch of fallen angels with him.
He took a handful.
I don't know how many he's got, but I'll tell you, God's got a lot more.
Wow.
Myriads.
Countless.
Immeasurable.
This is what it is in the Greek.
Myriads, countless, immeasurable.
Army, flood of angels, host of angels, multitude, an indefinite number, millions.
These are God's angel messengers watching over us and doing God's bidding.
I want to be on God's side.
I'm tired of the world.
Verse 12, saying, and that was translated wrong.
It means singing loudly.
The angels were singing loudly.
There's hope for some of us.
With a loud voice, worthy, deserving is the lamb that was slain to receive power.
And this is miraculous power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor.
Oh, this is the highest degree of honor.
This isn't just honor.
This is honor to God and glory and blessing, adoration.
John has never heard anything like this before.
Can you imagine old John, 90 years old, hearing millions of angels singing?
Oh my God, can you imagine what that sounds like?
You talk about the sound of a mighty rushing wind.
You haven't heard anything.
Oh, quickly.
Let's go on.
Singing loudly with a loud voice.
Worthy, deserving is the lamb that was slain to receive power.
Miraculous power, that is, and riches and wisdom and strength and honor.
Remember, that's the highest degree of honor in the world and the heavens.
And glory and blessing, mean adoration.
And every creature which is in heaven, it means created thing.
Get this.
Which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as in the sea.
All that are in them heard.
I say, blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth on the throne into the Lamb forever and ever.
There is coming a time when every creature is going to sing and praise God.
It says, every created thing in the oceans, the whales are going to sing.
Oh, the worms are going to sing.
I mean, the lions are going to sing.
All the animals are going to sing.
All of them are going to sing.
Everything.
Even the bugs are going to sing.
The bees are going to sing.
Everything is going to sing.
All creation.
Oh, how many have a little dog and you swear it understands?
The poor thing wants to talk.
God made it to talk.
The animals talked in the Garden of Eden.
Eve talked to one of them.
I'm telling you, creation is under the curse.
Heaven says, I'll tell you, you look at me like I'm stupid.
I'm telling you the word.
I'm preaching you the word.
I'm not giving you funny stories.
I'm giving you the word.
That's all we're talking about: the word.
We don't need funny stories.
We need the word.
I'm telling you, we're coming to a day when all creation, when this thing's over, boy, I'll tell you, it means animals.
Look at 1 Timothy 4:3 if you don't believe me.
Forbidding to marry and command you to abstain from meats which God has created.
This is eating animal meat, right?
To receive with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.
It's talking about animal meat.
This is the exact same Greek word here, every creature.
And why would he say every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth?
This is not just humans.
This is everything he created.
I mean, the birds already are praising him.
That's more than some Christians.
Birds sing all day long.
Chirp, You get up in the morning, they're singing, chirp, trip, trip.
You know, you can go to work.
They don't stop singing because you went to work.
They're still out there, chirp, trip, trip, trip, trip.
They're doing what God tended to do.
God said, sing, they sing.
Just throw that in.
Jesus is the victor.
Look at John 5:22.
I'm going to read it in the living.
Don't go there.
I'll read it in the living so we go fast.
And the Father leaves all judgment to his son so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father.
But if you refuse to honor the Son, then you are certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.
I assure you, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life.
They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
And I assure you that the time is coming, in fact, it is here, when the dead will hear my voice, the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live.
The Father has life in himself, and he has granted his Son to have life in himself.
And he has given him, Jesus, authority to judge all mankind because he is the Son of God.
This is who we're talking about.
Back to Revelation 5:14.
And the four beasts said, Amen.
I hate that beast word.
I just wish King James would get it out of there.
And the four living creatures said, Amen.
And in the Greek, you know what amen means?
So be it.
So be it.
These four beasts have assured that this is the word.
This is the God's word.
They agree with it.
They're about to do something.
And the four and 20 elders fell down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever.
The four living beings, the worship leaders, bring all this worship to God the Father and God the Son to close this time.
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Judgment is about to begin.
Judgment is about to begin.
Get ready.
The seven seals cover the balance of the book.
Chapter 6 through 22.
Get ready, get ready, get ready.
We are going to start next lesson.
We are going to start the journey of your lifetime.
We are going to study the journey that is about to take place on planet Earth.
And I'm going to show you some things next week, God willing.
I don't know how far we'll get and how many horses we're going to take care of tomorrow, our next lesson, but I'm telling you, you're going to see how much the stage is set.
So get ready for next week.
I want you to prepare your hearts.
If you would like to read chapter 6 of the book of Revelation as your homework, do that.
I'd also like you to read Matthew 24.
I would like you to see the periods.
I would like you to see Matthew 24 and tell me where the rapture takes place there.
These are the word of Jesus.
Matthew is Jesus, right?
The recorded word of Jesus.
So I'd like you to find it.
John's visit to the throne room was necessary, listen to me, to prepare him for what is coming.
He had to see heaven.
He had to see the throne.
He had to know that Jesus Christ was in power.
Because what he's about to see would shake the very foundation of his soul.
What he was about to see, no man had ever seen before.
He is about to enter the last days.
He had heard the testimony of millions of angels to verify it.
He has seen the Lamb of God and his father on the throne.
So when John's going to now go through this awesome time, he's not going to be shaken.
Oh, he'll be shook up, but he is going to know that it's going to turn out okay.
He has seen the host of heaven prostate at the feet of Jesus.
He has seen all the heavenly host bowing down to the Father and the Son.
He is now convinced that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in control of the universe and that he will be able to execute judgment.
You see, that's why he wept.
He wasn't sure if there wasn't anybody found worthy to open up the scroll.
John was worried.
John was concerned.
John didn't know what he was going to do.
He wept because he knew he was assigned to get this last day message and he was writing it down in this vision.
But now he's convinced.
John will not hesitate to write down what he sees and he sends it and he will send it as we see through this book to the seven churches as God ordered him to do so.
John is about to understand why he's to send the warning to the church.
And this is why we must hear.
Why?
What was the word to the seven churches?
The word that was over and over and over and over to the overcomer.
We must be overcomers.
We saw seven churches.
Some of them were in quite a mess.
In fact, most of them were in a mess.
But they were to be overcomers.
One would wonder why John was to write this information to the church if the church is to be raptured out before anything happens.
Why is this message to the church?
Why do we even know if it's not going to even concern us?
The whole message of Matthew 24 from Jesus Christ is all about warning us about the last days.
It's all to warn us that don't believe in the false Christ.
They're going to come.
There's going to be false prophets, he says.
They're going to come to us.
And they will come, he said, like wolves in sheep's clothing.
He warns us.
All these false gods.
He warns us.
The love of many is going to wax cold.
He warned us all the evil that's going to be on the earth.
And we're going to begin to see next time this unbelievable moment of judgment.
The moment when God begins to move like never before.
Where the lamb becomes the lion, where the lamb of God becomes the king of kings, where the lamb of God becomes the judge of earth.
The true church has not been raptured at this point.
I believe this with all my heart.
And will not be raptured until the last trumpet sounds.
It's as plain as the nose on your face.
Do you see your nose?
You don't see your nose.
That's the problem.
It's that clear.
Go look in a mirror.
You have a nose.
And it's as clear and how people have manipulated the Bible to say something that is absolutely, totally, totally not in the Bible.
This delusion is going to cause millions to commit suicide.
This is what God spoke to me.
He said, Jim, you had to go to prison to study my word because he said the people in the churches will kill themselves when the stock market crashes, the earthquakes start falling major cities, and all these calamities come.
The people of the church, because they have fallen in love with money, they have made money their God.
And he said, They will blow their brains out just as the world does because they have fallen in love with this present world.
He said, Jim, when you get out of prison, plead with people to fall in love with Jesus.
Hey, if I'm wrong about where the rapture takes place, it don't make any difference.
But falling in love with Jesus does make a difference.
Having your heart right with God does make a difference.
You know, I'm not interested in arguing theology with anybody.
If you disagree with me, write it down and I'll look it up and I'll study it quietly at home.
But I will never debate the Bible.
It is not open for debate.
It is written and it is the word of the living God.
Paul writes, 1 Corinthians 15:52.
If you haven't marked it, do so.
We got one minute left.
I'm closing.
You don't have to worry.
We're taping this.
There's only an hour tape.
It's over.
And we stop.
It's none of this closing the Bible and pretending we're over and we go on another hour.
We don't do that here.
So, fear not.
That's the key word of the book of Revelation.
Fear not.
1 Corinthians 15:52.
We're closing.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, trump means trumpet.
For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Is that the rapture?
Yeah, it's the rapture.
The dead arise.
That's the rapture.
The dead come out of the graves, and we go to meet them in the air, and the meeting in the air.
That's the rapture of the church.
That's to take it out.
That's not the coming back to rule on earth.
And when does it take place?
Underline it at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound.
Okay?
Now, all we got to do is look for the last trumpet, and we'll know when the rapture takes place in the Bible.
Okay?
We are about to begin an adventure of our lifetime.
The opening of the seven seals.
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