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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. We're gonna open with prayer, and then we're gonna study we're gonna worship, then we're gonna study Revelation chapter 15 tonight, Lord willing. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we thank you for this night. Thank you for the meal. Thank you for the fellowship, time of prayer. And, Lord, we lift up this night to you and ask for your blessing. Lord, we lift up Linda with Joe going home to be with you and help her to transition and adjust. And also for James, Lord, it's so fresh in his heart, Lord, the the time of of mourning and all, Lord. So we just lift James up, help him to get over the bug that he got and to feel better and help him to transition. Lord, we lift up the memorial for Sally this Saturday at three and Lord, pray that you'd be glorified that many people who love you and love Sally and love James, Lord, that they be blessed, that they be encouraged. And as we honor you Lord and as we honor your saint you know Lauren your your saint that you gave us time with Lord thirty years that I've known her and Lord I just thank you for her and James and just pray that you bless and bless this time, this bible study, and I just pray that nobody else dies, Lord, that we go in the rapture. And, we lift up Shannon's grandma that you continue to heal her. We lift up Fred that you help him with that pacemaker that he that he received. Thank you for the doctors. Just pray that he'd get his his energy back and watch over Ronnie and Fred. And thank you, Lord, that you're the great physician. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. And, Vic, when you got a minute, you can turn this heat off in here. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, I want to see Alright. Thanks, Rob. Thank you very much. Revelation chapter 15. Praise the lord. Father, we just pray now that as we study Revelation 15 that you would open the scriptures to our understanding. Thank you for the privilege and the blessing that lord we own Bibles and lord that you've saved us, that you've given us your holy spirit to be our teacher, to bring to remembrance the scriptures, lord, and to and also things to come and lord as we're as we're reading here, lord, we pray that you just fill our heart overflowing with the excitement and expectancy of that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior Jesus Christ especially in light of all the prophecies being fulfilled. All everything aligning, everything falling into place, lord in the times in which we're living is very exciting. We thank you, Lord, that we choose not to go down that path of ignorance is bliss. Lord, we we desire to know. We desire to be students of your word and to not be those that walk in darkness that your coming is like a thief in the night. Lord, we're watching. We pray that you show us more and more of the birth pangs and the signs of your coming. And Lord, that we could tell others that we could use prophecy as a means of proof, a proof text Lord for those that are wondering what's happening and help us to sort through the lies to prove all things hold fast that which is good, to test the spirits Lord, and to be led by you, lord, down that straight narrow path of truth. Help us, lord, we pray in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Alright. Revelation 15 and we're we've got a view in heaven of the seven bold judgments about ready to be unleashed. And in chapter 16 verse one, they're they're told to go and it starts to happen in chapter 16. But this is also back at chapter 14, if you go there, or excuse me, chapter 11 verses 14 through 19. Go ahead and turn there. This is the last of the trumpet judgments, and the last of the trumpet judgments contains the seven bowl judgments. And the seven bowl judgments are in the final three and a half year period of the tribulation period. And and so it says for the second woe is past or yeah. For the second woe is past and behold the third woe cometh and the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our lord and of and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever and the four and twenty elders who sat before god on their thrones fell upon their faces and worship god saying we give thee thanks oh lord almighty who art and was and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and has reigned. And and the nations were angry with the with thy wrath as has come in the time of the dead and they should be judged and thou should give reward unto thy servant, the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, small and great, should destroy them who destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, just like we're gonna see in chapter 15 verse one. And there was seen in the temple, the ark of his covenant, and there were lightnings and voices and and thunderings, thunderclaps, and earthquake, and great hail. So the seventh trumpet containing the the second half of the tribulation period, the seven bowl judgments. Some of your King James Bible say vials, but it's a bowl and it's a shallow bowl like like what you'd put coals in Coals that you know around a fire. Alright and he said I saw another sign and so how many signs does this make? In chapter 12 verse one, chapter 12 verse three, he said he saw a sign. Let's see here. And there there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed in the sun and the moon, and under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And verse three, and there appeared another wonder in heaven, that word wondrous signs. And behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and 10 horns and seven crowns upon his head. And chapter 15 verse one is the third sign that we have right here in front of us. And then we have visions. We have a vision in chapter 13 verse one of the beast. We have a vision in chapter 13 verse four of another beast, the false prophet. We have in chapter 14 verse one, a vision of the 144,000. We have another vision of the angel gospel preacher in chapter 14 verse six. And then we have a white cloud in 14 verse 14. A white cloud that's your kind of glory of God. And so I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, Seven angels having the seven last plagues. So seven angels, the seven last plagues. This is it. This is the final run of God subduing the earth, subduing the devil, the false prophet, the antichrist, all the the wicked god haters, all the demons, all the fallen angels, all of them. This is it. His wrath being poured out and then there's gonna be a significant change taking place. Jesus is going to return at the end of this the bold judgments and and he's going to set up his king where he's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness for a thousand years. And so this is the last of the last of the last of human government energized by the wicked one, energized by the devil, the prince, the power of the air, and so the unholy trinity. So seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them is filled up. So see filled up. It's full. It's it's the wrath is full. God poured out his wrath upon his son and Jesus said it is finished. The Dallasite paid in full. And so there was a completion there. There's no need for Jesus to be crucified every week in some sort of a mass. He's smitten once and he satisfied the just and holy demands of a just and a holy god in punishing sin and he that knew no sin became sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And so remember he prayed, father if you're willing remove this cup from me, the cup of his wrath to be poured out and and so that wrath was poured out upon his only begotten son. For them is filled up the wrath of God And this word wrath, there's two Greek words for wrath in the New Testament. One is thymos and the other one is orge. Orge is a settled wrath. The thymos is what we have here. It's mentioned 11 times in the New Testament, 10 times in the book of Revelation, and it's it's an explosive flurry. It's a flash a flash of of like fire. Just a just a real quick flash of some of you ladies that have husbands with raging problems, kinda like that. Just just boom. Comes out of nowhere. Just just flash of anger. And We don't have that problem. We're Christians. Right? We're Christians. We're Christians. There's none of that in our homes. So this flash, this like like, you're filled with a demon. Look how mad you are. So the thymos and it's it's the flash, the explosive burst of anger that's coming upon the planet. God's been holding it back, holding it back, holding it back, holding it back, and now it's just gonna be unleashed, you know. And Vicky's gotta take a walk. She's nervous about that. And she's shake she's shaking right now. And Just checking. And so filled up the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a sea of glass. So back in chapter four verse six and chapter five verse eight, a sea of glass that around the throne of God, that'll be amazing to see. And there was a sea of glass mingled with fire. So fire kinda, you know, off that sea of glass, it's gotta be beautiful. And it speaks of judgment. It's a picture of judgment that's coming. And fire, and them that had gotten the victory, and I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them, the trib saints, those that have been martyred during the tribulation period that had gotten the victory and martyrdom is a victory. Jesus said, you're gonna be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the uttermost parts of the earth. They've gotten the victory over who? Over the devil. Right? And they got victory and how did how did they become overcomers? They overcame him how? The lamb of the word of their testimony and they left not their lives into death. Could you say that again, please? Take a breath. Their testimony and they love not their life unto the death. Praise the lord. Praise the lord. And so they they have victory and where are they? They're in heaven and and as we read in Revelation 21, there's no more crying, no more tears, no more sorrow, everything's good, really good and so we got the tribulation saints there, victory over the beast. So, the antichrist, he's who can make war with the antichrist and he's compelling everybody to receive the mark of the beast, the right hand of their forehead and and so the first half of the tribulation period, there's great persecution against everyone that doesn't go along with the apostate church. The apostate church in chapter 17 is riding the beast, riding the government. We're watching that today. We're watching the apostate Laodicean Church merging with government. That is the Revelation 17, the whore that rides the beast, prostituting the beast. And the beast puts up with it. The government puts up it for the first three and a half years. And so it's it's primarily the apostate, Laodicean church that afflicts those that come against the, you know, the beast and his government. And at the midpoint, that system of government changes and you have a global government, the 10 kings ruling and reigning, the first three and a half, and then or at the beginning Daniel seven twenty three, there's a globalism, rebirth of Roman Empire. And then it turns into 10 kings, a monarchy, and then three of them in Daniel seven fight against the beast and they're subdued and then the beast himself becomes the eighth and that's the final form of government is the worshiping of the devil and for the remaining three and a half. And so the false prophet comes along as we learned in chapter 13, and he's speaking of the beast, and everyone's gonna have to receive a mark on the right hand of their forehead with the number 666, and it shows allegiance unto the beast, the worshiping of the dragon, the devil. And people that refuse that, Revelation 20 verse four, they're martyred and they've been beheaded. And so they're in heaven here. The those of the first half of the tribulation period and in Revelation 17 verse five or excuse me, verse six, and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered with great wonder. Now chapter 17 chronologically happens in the first half of the tribulation period and that's what I was saying is that's the the woman that rises the beast. It's the apostate, Laodicean church that's killing those martyrs that we see beneath the throne in chapter six. And now these these martyrs could be some of them stale, but but more likely in the second half of the tribulation period, it's those who refuse the mark of the beast. So now it's not the Laodicean apostate church that's afflicting them because he wipes them out. He gets rid of them and he moves in a direction of everyone worshiping the beast when he goes in the temple, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god, and that's when the eyes of the Jews are open and that's when we see them in chapter 12, they're fleeing. And they're fleeing Jerusalem from the Antichrist and because their eyes are open, the Jewish the Jewish remnant, their eyes are gonna be open. So over his image, over the beast and over his image and over his mark, and so these are they that in the second half that that are killed because they refuse the mark of the beast. And over the number of his name, which we know is 666. And Jared Kushner has a property in New York City at 666. Right? Pretty amazing. What's that like? Like that or something? 6? I don't know. When you see him doing that, Kathy said, they're identifying with the one third of the angels that fell with Lucifer. Right? Right, Cath? Something like that. Anyway, lot of lot of gang signals. Right? Well, I don't I don't understand them. I don't I don't follow gangology, but alright. Remember this name standing on the sea of glass having the harps. So they have the privilege of worshiping God. Wouldn't it be great to be in heaven on the sea of glass there before the throne of God and have harps? And the Lord says, I'm gonna teach you Rick how to play a harp, you know. Not only that Rick, I'm gonna put a new song in your heart. You're gonna be able to sing finally. You're gonna play on time. Wouldn't that be sweet? That'd be it'd be it'd be sweet for the listeners, wouldn't it? Because because I have no shame. I try anyway. Right? And so make a joyful noise. And so the the blessing of worshiping the Lord, and so we have a sign. Now we have the song is coming. What are they singing? And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God. And who wants to read Exodus fifteen one through 21? The song of Moses. Moses. Exodus 15. It's a song of redemption. It's a song of the Red Sea. It's a song of the Israelites coming out of Egypt, out of the world, baptized onto Moses through the Red Sea. And so we don't need to read it, but anyway you could you could check it out. And also Deuteronomy thirty two one through 43, but the song of Moses represented of the law. And so that's sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and I like that. Job, my servant, somebody want to read it? Is Vicky's? Is that the ice? I will sing unto the lord for he is strife, gloriously. That song. We'll look at it. Yeah. Yeah, didn't look it up but I have. Yeah, I know that. What? I want Vicky to sing it. Vicky, I want you to sing it. Alright. We're gonna sing it. It looks like we're all gonna sing it. Turn there. Sorry. It is dark. It's alright. I like the joy of the lord. Alright. Exodus 15. So, Pharaoh's horses, they perished and people that go against the Bible, what do they say that sea was? Is it the Vicky knows. Vicky knows. The Reed or The Reed Sea. So what's a greater miracle? Pharaoh's army and chariots dying in two inches of water in the Reed Sea Right. Or drowning in the Red Sea, the Gulf Of Aqaba. And divers can show you pictures in the Gulf Of Aqaba of the old chariot wheels still there with barnacles all over them. Right? Yeah. Right. And yesterday, my grandson, Isaiah, asked me, papa, what's that on the back of the of the van there? It says, call Jesus. And I said, well, you can scan your phone on there, honey, and talk to Jesus. And and he started laughing at me. And I said, no, seriously. Bernie Bernie gave me that. And he said, you can scan that thing and take your phone scan it and you can talk to Jesus. So praise the Lord. Alright, Vicky. Where's it at? Then sang Moses and the children of Israel, this one song under the lord and spoke saying, I will sing unto the lord for he has, oh, here it is, Vic. Beautiful. There it is. There it is, Vicky. Yeah. So. Go ahead, Vic. Come on. Get some rhythm in there. I love that. It's right there. It's in the Bible. It's in the Bible. Wow. Praise the lord. So, they're still singing that in heaven. They're singing that in heaven. 15 what what verse? Fifteen one and two. You just did. Yeah. Okay. Praise the lord. Okay. That was good. And Rick, they also have the song Moses to tune of a CNH commercial and they sang the song of Moses that you remember the CNH commercial, right? I am a C. I am a C H R A S T I A N. I have a C H R A S S T T N Y H E R T. We are the lord. Boy, this is old old school day. I am a C. Alright. So praise the lord. You get to heaven. It's not the old news. It's fresh. Right? These songs are in our heart and and your wives like Vicky has, we teach them to your children, your grandchildren. It'll stay with them forever. Yeah. And you teach them to Thomas, he'll never forget a song. And so praise the Lord. Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the lamb. And what's the song of the lamb? The redemption. Redemption? Yep. And so they're gonna tell you what the song of the lamb is the next few verses. You still wanna see this? Okay. So they're singing praising him for Great and marvelous. First of all, he's great and marvelous. Or his works. So they're praising him for his great and marvelous works. Number one. They're praising him for his power. He's god almighty. They're praising him for his ways. He's the king of saints. Just and true are his ways and they're praising him as Rob said for the king of saints, his plan. He's got a plan and a purpose for all of us and he's our king, we belong to him. And his plan, now notice the pronouns here too. These guys have been martyred, They've been wiped out. Must have been painful. But everything on the song is about him. The song is not about them. How many worship so called worship songs today are about you? Right? Where's the focus of the song? Right? And the focus is is him. They're praising him and they're they're concluding he's got a great plan. His plan was perfect. Great and marvelous are the things that he's done. And thou king of saints. And so he's the one that's king. He's over the saints. His sovereignty over me. All these things I went through were for his kingdom and his glory. He's worked all things together for good. There I am at the, you know, the throne of God, given a harp and I'm allowed to sing. And so who who shall not fear thee, oh Lord? So they're they're praising him for his worthiness. And so who shall not fear thee, oh lord, and glorify thy name for thou only art holy, for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest. So everyone eventually is gonna come and worship him. We know that every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. And so who wants to read Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21 that shows in the millennium where every nation comes to Jerusalem to worship him. And if they don't, they get no rain. But they come for the feast of tabernacles. It's compulsory. They must do it. And when we're reading in Ezekiel 40 through 48, the temple and all and seeing the the millennial rule and reign and the sacrifices and stuff. Zechariah tells us looking future that in Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21 that the nations and even the cows, the phrase holy cow that baseball announcer from Chicago, he used say holy cow. Well, got that from Zechariah 14 where the cows wear a chain around their neck where it says holiness under the lord. That's a holy cow. Alright? Alright. I just made that up. Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21. And it shall come to pass the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord. And the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yey, every pot in Jerusalem, Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts. And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and see therein and in the day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the lord of hosts. So is there sin in the millennium? There's people that don't go up. Right? And at the end of the millennium, there's a whole rebellion against God with the devil that's loosed. Right? Out of the abyss. And so in that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses holiness under the Lord. And the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. How did I get holy cows, holy horses, holy cow, holy horses. Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judea shall be holiness under the Lord of hosts and all they that sacrifice. Okay. So all holy, everything's gonna be holy. Holy holy holy. We used to sing that song too. Alright. So so I wonder how they're gonna travel to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. How are people gonna get there? By cow. By cow? By horse? Horse? Holy Holy Hondas? Hovercraft. Holy Hondas, hovercraft. They're gonna fly? Day boarding. So the Gentiles are gonna have their human bodies. You and I are gonna get there by our new glorified body. Amen. Right? And after that I looked and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened. So he's seeing on into heaven the throne of God, and now the temple's opened up, and the holy of holies is opened up. The testimony in heaven was opened. And the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues. Seven angels, seven plagues, and from verse one that we saw. Clothed in pure white linen. What's that speak of? Righteousness. Their purity. Purity, righteousness. Yeah. And so when we see in Revelation 19, the bride of Christ, we come back with him and we're in clean white linen. So speaking of the clothed in pure and white linen. No wrinkles. And having their breasts girded with golden girdles. And so it speaks of their righteousness and in John 19 verse four, Pontius Pilate said concerning Jesus, I find no fault in him. And we're told that Pilate knew that Jesus was innocent and that for envy he was delivered unto him. And so these representatives in heaven, these angels, and God poured out his wrath upon his son who was innocent, who was pure, who was holy, righteous, and who never sinned, tempted in all points like we and yet without sin. And that's a that's a Jesus said, which of you convicts me of sin? And they're accusing him of blasphemy. They're accusing him of healing people through the power of Beelzebub, you know, the power of the devil. And Jesus reasons, tries to reason with them and say in a house is divided against itself can't stand. How does Beelzebub, lord of the flies, how's the devil cast out a devil? You know? He's warned against himself, you know? And and so these guys are really confused and which of you convicts me of sin? They couldn't find any fault with him. They had to hire people to lie about him to try and come up with charges against him. And then they suborned or they hired people just like Jezebel did when she won a Naboth vineyard. She hired some people to go and and lie about Naboth that Naboth was a blasphemer and then they stoned Naboth and then Ahab got Naboth vineyard as a result of that. They tried that with Jesus, didn't work. So what eventually what were the charges that Jesus was brought to the cross for? He has to be a king. Betty said blasphemy. Blasphemy was the Jewish charge. Rob said the the Gentile or the Roman charge was what? Pres to be a king. Pres to be a king. So are you a king? And so that was treason. Treason against. So so the the when they said that that, you know, he claimed to be god, Pilate said, what's that to me? I don't care about your religion. Doesn't matter to me. Well, wait a minute. He also claimed to be a king and you're not Caesar's friend if you don't judge him because it's treason. And so Pilate they put Pilate his back to the wall and put him in a situation where it was politically expedient for Pilate to go along with the pressure from the religious leaders who had great influence with Rome and pressuring Pilate to crucify this carpenter from Nazareth. Now why did they want Jesus crucified? The religious leaders? They were jealous. Pilate said they were envious, jealous. And what were they jealous of in chapter 12 of John? In chapter 12 of John. His influence, Rob says. So, in chapter 11, you've got a guy that's dead. Purposely wait till he dies, right? And and so Jesus finally had to tell the disciples, you know, hey, Lazarus sleeping. Well, Lord, he'll do good if he's sleeping, he'll get better. No. Lazarus is dead. And so this sickness is is for the glory of God. So he purposely waited like four days and he's dead and Mary and Martha, particularly Martha is saying if he'd come sooner if he'd come sooner, you know, all. And and he's letting them know he's the resurrection and the lie. And then Lazarus come forth and he comes the stone is rolled away and he's waddling out and they said loose him, take off his grave clothes, give him something to eat. And so then in chapter 12, Jesus is there and Mary, sister of Lazarus and Martha, she takes her alabaster box of sweet ointment which is very costly worth 300p and she anoints the feet of Jesus and anoints him for his burial and Judas is indignant and this money could have been could have been sold and you know given to the poor and all that the poor will have with you always and she's done this for my burial. So Mary was well aware that Jesus was going to die. But Lazarus was also there at the meal that they were having. And and many many Jews were coming to the house to see if it was true if Lazarus was raised from the dead. And the religious leaders, these guys are what we call conspiracy theorists. They weren't theorists. They were conspiring. Right? They conspired to kill JFK. They conspired to kill Jesus. And so they made a plot to assassinate him and they said basically, if we don't do this, all men will be gathered unto him. So they were losing the popularity of the people that were following the religious leaders who had control of them. They also postulated that we'll lose our country, you know, that Rome will come and and take away our influence because they allowed them to a certain degree to rule under under the Roman power, but a certain degree of authority over the people the religious leaders had. And so jealousy, envy couldn't come up. And I can't imagine the life of me of watching a guy heal somebody born you know, with a withered hand, a man born blind in John nine, a guy that can cast out demons, a guy that, you know, I can't find any fault with and he's doing nothing but good. If you don't believe me for my words sake, believe me for my work sake. Look at my work, my body of work. How could you ever want to kill a guy like that? What's going on in your head that you would want to kill a guy that can raise people from the dead? You know? And in John nine, the guy that was born blind, he's like, you guys decide who he is. All I know is I was blind and now I see. In the of the world, no man has ever been able to cause a man that's been born blind to be able to see, you know? To him, it was a no brainer. Obviously, he's a good. Obviously, he's sent from god and Jesus draws out of this this man in John nine to the place where he comes to faith, you know, And just like he did in John chapter eight with the woman at the well. And so he he develops their faith as he asks questions and as he as he interacts with them. But nobody is able to find fault with them. He said a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. The only sign you're gonna be given is a sign of the resurrection. Right? The sign of Jonah and the whale. And destroy this temple, he said in John John two, in three days I'll raise it up. So he's challenging the religious leaders and letting them know that the very heart of the gospel, the heart of what he's come to do is that he would be the atonement. That he'd be the atonement. So one time per year on the great day of atonement the priest would go into the holy of holies and the holy of holies is open right here, chapter 15, and a priest would have to prepare himself perfectly and he would go into the Holy of Holies with a bowl of blood and he would sprinkle the mercy seat and there would be another from the goat, the blood from the goat, and then there'd be another goat that he'd lay hands on and he'd confess the sins of the people for that year upon what's called the scapegoat and that one would be sent out to the wilderness which is a picture of forgiveness of sending the sin away and and so John the Baptist saw Jesus coming into town and he's his cousin but he said, behold the lamb of god who doesn't cover sin but the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world. And so he's a spotless, unblemished, perfect lamb of God, innocent, and God's gonna prod his wrath upon him. Now if I'm there in Jerusalem during the Passover and there's, you know, hundreds of thousands of people there and they're all bringing their animals to be executed, to be sacrificed, there's gonna be a whole lot of blood, isn't there? Yeah. There's gonna be so much blood that the Kidron, the Brook Kidron that comes from the temple area, they have a little trough type thing. This blood is running out of the area where they're cutting their necks. Right? And they're flowing downhill to the Kidron Valley into the brook. And so it'd be all red, turn all red. So that would be a huge message to our kids and our grandkids when they're young, marveling at that and all that blood. If a lot of them are raised on farms and stuff, so cutting a lamb's neck may not be a big deal to them, but it is to me, a city guy. If I saw that, it'd be be kinda crazy. But definitely get my attention. And when we did Sally's interment the other day, and there's a hole there, and we're gonna put that box down in the hole with Sally's body that she's not in anymore. It's an eye opener to my grandkids. That's the first time they've been there, you know, and that stays with you. Eye opener to me. It's just it's it's it's a wake up call. And so if if I'm there in Jerusalem and Jesus is six different trials, first before Caiaphas who was or excuse me, Annas, who is the previous high priest but his son-in-law Caiaphas was the high priest at that time. So when Jesus first was brought from the Garden Of Gethsemane, was brought to the house of Annas and Annas was pretty much in charge and they interrogated him there and then he went to the house of Caiaphas and interrogated further. And then he went to the third Jewish trial that same evening to before the Sanhedrin. And that's where they officially condemned him and all. Then they brought him before Pilate and then Pilate sent him because he didn't wanna deal with this. His wife said, hey, this is a holy man. This is a judgment. Have nothing to do with him. I had a really bad dream last night and don't have anything to do with this guy. So he sends him over to King Herod, and Herod and the boys wanna see a trick. They wanna see he's a magician. He does miracles, you know, show us. So we put a bag over your head, we blindfold you, and we hit you in the face. Prophesy, who did hit you? Who did hit you? And Jesus as a sheep before his shears is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. He has nothing to say to these guys. And and they toy with them, play with them, beat them, and send them back to Pilate. So six different trials on that one evening and Peter is running from place to place and he's denying that he even knows him and a maiden saying, you know him your Galilean accent. You're from Texas, aren't you? I can hear that draw, you know? And no, don't even know the man. And pretty soon he's cussing. Peter's swearing I don't know the man. And then he hears the cock crow. Right? And Peter's just like, oh, oh, just I blew it. You know? His eyes are open to it. And when the shepherd's spitting, all the sheep scattered. So all his disciples split and the woman stayed, the women stayed nearby. And John the beloved was there near the cross and he said, woman look at your son. Speaking of John the beloved, Jesus taking care of Mary, his mother, that she would go and live with John for a period of time. And and the Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus begging for the body of Jesus, the two thieves on either side and father into your hand I commend my spirit. He gave up his own spirit. Not a bone was him that was broken. And so to facilitate to speed up the dying because it's a Sabbath time, they would break some legs. And so crucifixion is death by asphyxiation. So they would put a little piece of wood where your heel, your feet can go on. They bend your knees a tiny bit. And and as you're as you're spread out, you have to push up with your legs to get a breath of air. And then in time, as you read in Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53, his bones, his shoulders dislocate from the wheat. So his joints are dislocated with the weight of his body suspended there for six hours, you know, on that cross, dehydrated and thirsty and all, and he's praying, Father forgive them for they know not what they do and my God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? Why are thou so far from my roaring? And so he, the centurion takes and pierces the pericardium with a spear because father into your hand I commit my spirit. He gave up the ghost. He wasn't gonna have any bone of him broken. And no bone broken because the blood is produced in the bone marrow. And so it's in the bone marrow that the blood of Jesus is produced and the blood of Jesus Christ God's son continually cleanses us of all sin. Right? And so there's plenty of blood available and and so he's taken down from the tree and rather than him going to Gehenna, the ash heap outside of Jerusalem where the religious leaders would have loved to thrown him, they're burning donkeys and other animals that are dead, where he wouldn't get a burial, Joseph, Arimathea, and Nicodemus begged for the body of Jesus. And Isaiah 53 says that he was he was buried in a rich man's tomb, and Joseph of Arimathea was rich, and he had a tomb, never a man laid, and they put him in there, and then the religious leaders come to Pilate and say, this deceiver said, they remember what he said, destroy this temple in three days I'll raise it up. And Jesus did in fact do that, but they they contended that his disciples would steal his body and this what would happen afterwards would be worse than the beginning of what had been happening. So they implored Pilate to guard the tomb, put a Roman seal upon that stone. And the stone was a 2,000 pound stone that was in a a a in a the shower thing. The trough. Trough. The trough. Thank you. And and then break and then sealed with a Roman seal, punishable by death if anybody were to break that seal. And then a criterion of soldiers punished by death if they ever allowed anybody to roll that stone away and steal the body. And so you know the story. The angels appear there and the guys guard the tomb. They quake like dead men, like Quakers on the ground. They were so afraid and all. And the stone was thrown uphill, out of the way, and the stone was rolled away. Why? Not so Jesus could get out but so witnesses could get in. Right? And see that the tomb was empty. Right? And so Mary Magdalene first to the tomb and the angels ask why are you seeking the living among the dead? He's not here. He's risen. So we're gonna go over this on Easter in a couple weeks, but I just thought I'd warm up. And and so they so Mary leaves, tomb's empty, and then the women come, then Peter and John come, and Mary Magdalene comes back a second time, and she sees Jesus, but she doesn't recognize him. And she thinks he's the gardener. And sir, where's his body? Tell me where his body is and I'll I'll carry him. Because Mary Magdalene and the women came to the tomb early because they knew that the men didn't prepare his body properly. Because guys just don't know how to do that kind of stuff. And so they were gonna do it right, and they came with spices and all the stuff ready to do it right. And and she begged of the gardener, tell me where the body is, and it wasn't the gardener. Was Jesus. And he says, Mary, and voice recognition. She didn't recognize him. Maybe beaten beyond the recognition of a man still bearing the scars, but the voice recognition. And and this is a this is a woman that had seven demons cast out of her. And she's very zealous. Those who are forgiven much love much. And she says, Rabboni, master. And she grabs hold of his legs, and she's saying, you got away from me once. And he's saying, Mary, you gotta let go. I've gotta I've gotta be able to ascend to my father, to your father. And and then he appeared later in the day. He appeared to the women, and he appeared later in the day to the 10, Thomas being absent. Then eight days later to the 11, Thomas being present. And he appeared to the two on the road to Emmaus. And he appeared to over 500 people. He appeared to Paul as one out of due time, appeared to James, his brother, and James was converted. Jude was converted. They didn't believe in Jesus till after the resurrection. They had earlier said you need to you're beside yourself, you're crazy, you lost your mind. They didn't believe in him, and he came unto his own and his own believed him not. And he was in the world. The world was made by him. The world knew him not. Went into Nazareth. Is not this the carpenter's son? Mary and Joseph, aren't his brothers and sisters still here and prophetess not without honor except in his own country, in his own kindred, his own city and all that. And so they didn't believe. But as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name. And so so there we have a picture of what has happened, what's transpired. And now up in heaven, the Lord Jesus is there and the temple is opened and these angels are ready to go and finish judgment. Judgment that's long due, long overdue. God's long suffering not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance. And he's been waiting and waiting and waiting and now it's the final seven bowl judgment. This is it. This is the end. This is the end of human beings and the devil and all that being in charge. And God's gonna take back the planet that he created and the planet that he redeemed and he's going to do an end to evil. He's gonna get rid of evil. He's gonna get rid of all the pedos and all of the murderers and liars and whoremongers and all of that. All of that's gonna be done away. And it says, and one of the four living creatures, so the four living creatures we saw them in chapter four and chapter five, and they had a face like four different faces. So these are chair of angels and maybe the face of a man looking looking in now. And let's see here. Yeah, face of Matthew, a lion, Mark a calve, Luke a man, and John of an eagle. So cherub angels and these four creatures reflecting aspects of the Lord, characteristics of the Lord. And so these creatures, and one of the four living creatures gave unto unto the seven angels, seven golden bowls, so the bowl judgments full of the wrath. And remember the different, it's not the orge, the settled wrath, but it's the thumos, the flash, the explosive fiery wrath that's gonna be unleashed against the God haters in a world that's rejected Christ, in a world that's worshiping the devil, that's worshiping the beast, the false prophet. And who lives the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. So he's basically saying time's up. Time's up. Now how much time do we have? How much time if God comes to you and sends Isaiah the prophet to you and he says, Hezekiah, the sickness you have is unto death. Get your house in order. Time's up. What would you do? What kind of things would you do? I read about Steve Jobs today, pancreatic cancer, 58 years old. Didn't believe in God. But what he cherished the most as he's looking up at the ceiling and all of his billions, nothing could save him. He cherished kindness and love and relationship with family and friends. That's what he cherished the most. Things money can't buy. And you and I, we know the true and living God and he's the one that we have a relationship with. And so for all eternity, we're gonna experience his love and his kindness. His loving kindness. So time's up he's saying. So for the earth dwellers, those that received the mark of the beast, there's no redemption. There's no going to the cross. There's no sending God, you know, to die upon the cross again. It's over. It's done. You had your time. You made your choice. You chose choose you this day who you'll serve. Joshua said, as for me and my house, know, we're gonna serve the Lord. And they made their choice. So now there's a fearful looking to have judgment. And it's important to understand that God made hell for the fallen angels. Hell is a place that people go that choose to go to hell by rejecting Jesus Christ. God doesn't send one person to heaven, the other person to hell. That would be a reformed or a Calvinistic theology. We teach election. God's elected me. Jesus said, you didn't choose me, I chose you. In ordained me, you bring forth fruit. In fruit you remain. That whatsoever you do, ask my father, you know, you prosper and that you bear fruit for his kingdom and glory. So there's a sense, there's the truth of the foreknowledge of God, the predestination of God, the calling of me, that of election, but there's also the human side of it where we as free moral agents, we have the power of choice to choose to receive or to reject Jesus Christ. And God knows ahead of time what we're gonna do, but people that go to hell, they choose to reject Jesus. They choose to say no. It's their choice. So like with pharaoh, over and over again saying no, the sun that softens the wax hardens the clay And each time you say no, your heart gets harder and harder and harder and harder. And Hezekiah was given fifteen more years. And then that time he had a son named Manasseh who was the worst king ever. And and even Manasseh got saved though through the chasing hand of God with the Assyrians. So we never know when the time's up. As long as a person's breathing, there's a chance. And yet in the tribulation period, a person can be breathing but have the mark of the beast, time's up. It's You're already damned. And there's no and I've heard some good pastors say that there's a possibility there's still redemption from them. And that's false. That's a false heretical statement. It goes against the scripture. Tribulation that they they don't have the mark? Exactly. There's still In fact, the greatest revival ever is in the tribulation period. The innumerable multitude of people in Revelation six and seven beneath throne of God crying out how long oh Lord for him to judge those that martyred him. But no, they refused the mark of the beast. So today or Sunday when I'm gonna teach in the book of Ephesians, we're we're watching this at time of apostasy, and we'll bring that out on Sunday. But a whole lot of people professing that they know God, but in works they deny him. The works as in the fruit of their life. Jesus said you'll know them by their fruit. So today you can be a pedophile and be saved. You can be Hollywood. You can be a politician. You can any any anyone you want can say they're gonna be a part of this one world religious system that they're trying to kick start. And so everybody, you're watching them, all the influence, everybody's saying they're a believer. And so but you know, you say you believe in God, you do well. The demons also believe and tremble. So who is your God? Jesus said Jesus asked the question, who do men say that I am? So they can preach a different Jesus and have a different gospel different spirit, and and we're not to condone that. So the last days apostate church for the first three and a half years is like a Laodicean church, but it could very well be also it's going to include every religion on the planet. Mormons, everybody. And they're all going to say with their mouth that they believe in God. And then eventually halfway through, they're gonna say that they're God. It's gonna be a new age kind of a dominion kingdom now kind of mentality that they're ushering in the kingdom. They got the utopian age, you don't have to work anymore. And they're they're peace peace where there is no peace. Peace and security and all that. And all hell breaks. Those worst times Jesus had a time the world's never seen nor ever see again. So they're totally clueless. They're lying right now as they're selling this to people. But they're hiding in chapter six from the wrath of the lamb, the globalist bankers and and the business people, people that are trying to hide, evade what's happening above the planet, you know, above on the surface of the planet and in space and all the thing cataclysmic events that are coming, and there's no place to hide. And so truly, it's time time is up for humanity. It's winding down. It's coming to an end. So you and I are in the church age, and the church age has lasted two thousand years, and the tendency is for people, as Peter pointed out, that they say, well, where is the promise of this coming? Everything continues as it always has, you know. And they're acting like there's time, plenty of time. And, you know, maybe he's not coming back, you know. And how do you know he hasn't already? And so you got all these different eschatological heresies and things going on. And but Peter said, you know, you're willingly ignorant. One day is a thousand years, thousand years is one day. The reason there's a seeming a seeming delay in the second coming of Christ is because he's long suffering. He's unwilling that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance. So the church age continues presently with the nation of Israel, blindness and partisan and Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. And so we're waiting with Israel in the land. We're waiting during the church age for that last convert, that last person that makes that fulfills all those that God knows are that of his church. So the groom is with the father, and the bride is filled with oil and she's waiting for the fetching. She's watching. She's looking. She's waiting. She's looking her redemption draws nigh. In Matthew 25, there's five wise, five foolish. The five wise are watching cause the groom can come at any moment. They know it's close. They don't know exactly when. And when the father says to the son, go get him. Go get him son. Then that's the rapture of the church. That's when he's gonna come and take away his bride. The dead in Christ rise first when he slavery. Be caught up. And so that'd be times up. Times up. And yet, that new epoch of time starts sometime thereafter, not exactly at the rapture, but when that that Antichrist signs the treaty, Daniel nine twenty five through 27 as he signs the agreement, the covenant with the nation of Israel, that's the start of the time of Jacob's trouble. It's not called the time of the church's trouble. It's the time of Jacob's trouble. It's the time of Israel. The focus is upon the nation of Israel that God is going to purify a one third remnant and and that's the tribulation period that we see here happening right here. And part of this cataclysmic events is a means of going through the fire that the Jews are gonna go through. A 144,000 to be sealed from it. Right? They're they're gonna be invincible. Nobody's gonna touch them. But that remnant, that one third remnant, two thirds die according to Zechariah thirteen eight nine. But a one third remnant goes through the fire and are preserved and they come to a saving faith in Jesus as they cry out blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And so in the temple was filled with smoke. The smoke is the Shekinah glory of god up in heaven. The temple was filled with smoke. Holy smoke. From the glory of god. This is God's glory. And and so when he led the children of Israel out of Egypt, he would he would guard them with a cloud by day so the sun wouldn't scorch them and a pillar of fire by night, right? The kind of glory of God protecting the nation of Israel. So the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from the power and from his power. And no man was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. So Shekinah glory of God is like smoke just filling the place and and no man is able to enter. And why do you think that is? Till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. So we're told we can boldly come before his throne of grace. Right? We can come with prayer. And Jesus our great high priest, he's there, ever makes intercession for us. And God the father is there. So this picture of the temple is his he's getting ready to judge the earth. The seven plagues, and now he says no man is able to enter the Holy of Holies till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. This is the last three and a half years there. And so the only thing one of the commentators that I read, pastor Chuck, he was his opinion. We say opinion because there really isn't a right or wrong answer to this of why no men were allowed to be in there. But when Jesus saw the judgment in Matthew chapter twenty three thirty seven, when he saw the judgment that was coming against the city of Jerusalem up ahead, 40 up ahead, when he just been rejected by the nation, they officially rejected him as their Messiah. And he what did he do? He wept over the city and he said, oh Jerusalem, you that stole the prophets, everyone I send you, how often I would have gathered you as a mother hen does gather her brood under her wings, but you would not. Your city has left you desolate. So he could see up ahead that a couple million Jews in the city of Jerusalem, a siege would be put around them and general Titus of the Romans would put that seeds there and kill these people, wipe them out, and not one stone will remain upon another. So this temple that they're also enamored with, it'd be totally priebarred and and burned and the whole thing to the ground. And and many of the Christians who are nearby listen to Jesus in Matthew 24 that when you see these things flee, and I don't know if it's true right now, but a whole lot of Jews right now are fleeing and going up into the mountains. Right? The Mountains Of Judea presently right now. Getting away from the bombing of the cities. Right? And so Jesus wept over the city and warned them, told them to flee. And and so pastor Chuck, he says this, he believes that it could very well be that Jesus is in the temple weeping in regard to what he's gonna do. The wrath that's gonna be poured out. So if you look at Jeremiah or excuse me, Ezekiel 33 verse 11. Ezekiel 33 verse 11, you can see the heart of God. You see the heart of God as he wept over the city of Jerusalem. You can see the heart of God toward the lost, toward the lost, toward those who reject, who refuse to be saved. He says, say unto them, as I live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. God doesn't gleefully say, alright, we finally got these bad guys, you know. We finally got them. They're gonna get what's do them, you know. No. It's the sound of a heartbroken father. It's the sound of God in the garden speaking to Adam and Eve after he knows that they've sinned. Adam, where are you? As Chuck says, it's not the voice of an arresting officer. I gotcha. It's the voice of a heartbroken father. Adam, where are you? It's that look that Jesus gave to Peter when Peter blew it, you know. It's a look of compassion. And he says, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways for why will you die, oh house of Israel? Second Peter three verse nine, he's long suffering not willing that any would perish but that all would come to repentance. And it's breaking the heart of God to see so many people be what? Be deceived. They're perishing because they're deceived. And you remember that the the commentary over the devil is that he that deceived the whole world. Right? The devil is able with the antichrist and the false prophet to deceive the whole world. That's why Jesus when he's speaking of this time, he said take heed that no man deceive you. Right? Be not deceived. And it's deception. It's falsehood that leads people to destruction. And we're living in a time of of tremendous tremendous deception, occultic demonic deception. And and I thank the Lord that he causes the scales to come off your eyes and to come to that place through the gospel where you evade the he said to to Paul this way. When Paul was given the gospel, you and I have been given the gospel. He said, I'm Jesus whom you're persecuting, but rise and stand upon your feet for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose. To make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen. This is in Acts chapter 26. And of those things which I will appear unto thee. Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom I'll send thee. And here's the purpose. Here's the gospel. You and I have been sent to open their eyes so they can't see. They're being deceived and it breaks God's heart that they're being deceived. And God has an angel that's flying over during the tribulation period where everybody's heard. There's nobody that hasn't heard the gospel. The everlasting gospels preached by the 144,000 and preached by the angel flying overhead with the everlasting gospel. Right? Plus they have the two witnesses standing there for three and a half years. So everyone's without excuse. They've all heard. And in this dispensation, God's commissioned you and I to go and preach the gospel to every creature. God's commissioned you and I to make disciples. So he says to open their eyes. And when you're ministering to these people, a lot of them their eyes are closed. You can't get through to them. And I come home and I say to Kathy, I can't get through them. I don't know why I can't get through them. It's like, I'm speaking Chinese or something, you know. She says, Rick, they're not saved. So I'm trying to minister people thinking they're Christians, but they can't see, they can't hear, they can't they don't understand. But they profess that they know God, they think they already do. And these are people they're gonna hear the Lord say away from me, I never knew you. You that practice iniquity. But we're filled, churches are filled with people who aren't saved. They're blinded to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light. So they're walking in darkness and they need to turn. So they're gonna be converted. God's gonna convert them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan. There's a power over them, the world, the flesh, the devil that's taken them captive against their will. Under God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me. And so sanctified means set apart made holy. And so this is a work of conversion through the gospel. So that's why Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. To the Jew first and also to the Greek for therein is the rise of God revealed from faith to faith as is written the just shall live by faith. And so it breaks the heart of God to watch people perishing for all eternity to a place that he prepared for the rebellious angels that rebelled against him. And so now he's demonstrating his love. His son comes back as a man, not as an angel. He's the son of man, the babe of Bethlehem, the last Adam. He lives a perfect life. His wrath poured out upon him. And the accuser of the brethren those fallen angels and everyone there they're like watching and the holy angels are watching. How's he gonna pull this off? So the church is a mystery that was once hid now revealed and it's based upon the righteousness of Jesus. Jesus is the one. He's the savior. He's the one that'll save you and I from our sins. To enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels are fulfilled. And then verse one of chapter 16, and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to me to the seven angels, go. You and I are told to go. Go and make disciples. These guys are told to go and pour out those bowls. Go your ways and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth. And I am I'm inclined to believe pastor Chuck captured the heart of God and that it God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. It breaks God's heart. It breaks his heart to watch so many people perishing when Jesus is the savior of the whole world. His blood is efficacious in that his blood has paid for all the sins of the world. But especially for those who believe. Only those who believe appropriate that salvation by grace through faith. How sad it is for someone to go to hell when their sins have already been forgiven, but there's only one thing that keeps them out. What is that? Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Rejecting Jesus is the only way people get to hell. Ain't that sad? It's so sad. Alright. Well, let's pray. Father, we thank you and we thank you Lord that we're the saved, that we're the children of light. There's no fearful looking to of judgment, but Lord we pray as we have ours. Lord we pray that we'd not be complacent or fat and happy and and just indifferent to those that are perishing but we'd have the heart of God. We'd have your heart Lord. That our hearts would be broken watching people be so deceived. Be so embodied, so incredibly lost. Lord it's really easy to demonize Democrats and to hate people. That seems to be what much of the conservative thing is going on right now. But Lord to have your heart, we look at them and and our hearts are breaking for how lost they are. The abortions, the gay, the lesbian, divorces, the confusion of transgenderism and all of it. Lord, you love these people. You love them. You died for them. And the harlots, the sinners, the people on the street, the highways and the byways would come to you. And you told told Simon the Pharisee Lord that those that are forgiven much they love much and and you didn't come for the righteous but for sinners. It's not those that are well but those who are sick that need the physician. So Lord we know that there's none righteous no not one that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and Lord the iniquity of us all was placed upon you that all we like sheep have gone astray and the Lord has laid on you the iniquity of us all. So Lord we pray that we not be all puffed up and prideful and look with a condemning eye and a condemning spirit toward those who are in darkness. But God that you'd use our lives to spread the good news, to spread your love, to spread the light. And God by the power of your Holy Spirit that you would save, that you would mightily save to the uttermost. And so God, we pray for your anointing. We pray for your empowering. We pray that you would empower us in these last days to reach the lost in the power of the Holy Spirit, that you'd bring in a good harvest, Lord. You'd raise up laborers for your harvest as the fields are white under harvest and laborers being few. Lord, we thank you that we can be your servants, that we can serve you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
