tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24289578739487491522024-03-14T03:21:02.916-07:00Praising my GodKimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-19535638614466480392013-09-03T08:10:00.001-07:002013-09-03T08:10:23.833-07:00Revelation - Chaper 22<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 22</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b>1. ¶
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angel showed John a pure river
of water of life, clear as crystal originating in the throne of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The throne of God is prominent in
the concluding vision John saw.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The river is pure, no germs, no
diseases, no pollution, it is not muddy, but bright and clean.</span></b></div>
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2. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and
yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the midst of the city stands the
tree of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are symbols of
eternal life:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12 manners of fruits - number 12 stands for divine
authority and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These fruits
represent the joy and beauty of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Yielded her fruit every month - speaks of the
bounty of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations - notice nations are still around.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The saints of the heavenly city will
eat of the fruit of the tree and nations shall use its leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we desire to eat of the fruit and drink of
the water of life, we can do so.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Scripture seems to indicate that
we will not have to eat, but will be able to do so if we desire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">After the resurrection, Jesus ate
literal food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe the tree of life
is for our pleasure and enjoyment.</span></b></div>
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3. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The curse of the Garden of Eden is
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The curse of sin is over and will
not be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This speaks of His
authority and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will see Him
face to face and we will serve and honor Him.</span></b></div>
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4. And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
foreheads. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We will walk with Him, talk with Him
forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tells us that the believer
will be identified with God for all eternity.</span></b></div>
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5. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall
reign for ever and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God wants us to know that the night
is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells us here and back in
Revelation 21:25.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All through the Bible,
God is associated with light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Darkness
is gone forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus Christ will
replace the candles, the sun, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
will be the light of the city.</span></b></div>
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6. ¶ And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true:
and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants
the things which must shortly be done. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God keeps his promises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has always been faithful and true to His
word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is God of the past just as He
is God of the present.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God used an angel to inform John and
us through the writings of John.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Shortly be done here” covers a few
thousand years, but they are short compared to eternity.</span></b></div>
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7. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I come quickly:</span>
blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the promise of the
Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In comparison to eternity it
will be quickly.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Blessed – means happy.</span></b></div>
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8. And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had
heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which
shewed me these things. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John says he saw and heard these
things he has told us about. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John says
this outline of world history is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John said when he saw them and heard them, he was so overcome he fell at
the angel’s feet to worship the angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The angel is the one that had shown John these things.</span></b></div>
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9. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the
sayings of this book: worship God. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angel speaks to John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The angel said, “Don’t worship me,
John.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The angel identifies himself to
John as a fellowservant…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice the angel told John to
worship God!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angel actually told John, “Hey,
I am a member of the team.”</span></b></div>
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10. And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy
of this book: for the time is at hand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a point on the availability
of the Scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an open book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since the book of Revelation is not
a closed book, maybe we can understand it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The very name of this book is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unveiling</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Daniel 12, God told Daniel to
seal up the book and rest until the time of the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the angel told John not to seal this
book.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the time is at hand” refers to
the coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
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11. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is
filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous
still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He that is unjust” refers to those
who have not been justified by Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And he which is filthy” means the
polluted ones.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“unjust still and the filthy still”
– indicates that the people formerly of the earth, now in hell are in a
permanent state, which was fixed and determined at the second coming of Christ
when all the wicked were judged and cast into the lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The righteous still” means those
that are born again and will always be born again.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Still” – means they had previously
been caught up to meet Jesus and they are with Him and will forever be with
Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He that is holy” speaks of being
born again and an abundant and spirit filled life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Still” in this verse means they are
permanently fixed and will forever stay fixed.</span></b></div>
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12. <span style="color: red;">And, behold, I come quickly; and my
reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.</span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And behold means to look
suddenly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second advent of Christ
will happen suddenly!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice the reward is singular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rewards</i>
is not found in the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears
that work on the part of the Christian is required to receive a reward.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Bible also tells us about
crowns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to receive a particular
crown and each on e is different.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Scriptures</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Crown of</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For Whom</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Comment</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">2 Tim. 4:8<br />
Matt. 24:42, 46</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Righteousness</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 John 2:28<br />
2 Peter 3:14</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those that love His
appearing</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those right with God at
His coming.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">James 1:12<br />
Rev. 2:10</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Life</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Enduring, abiding,
sticking with Christ even through suffering</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The faithful’s crown or
the martyr’s crown</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Thess. 2:19<br />
Phil 4:1</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rejoicing or Joy</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The fruitful – brought
others to Christ</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The soulwinner’s crown</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Peter 5:2</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Glory</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The spiritual leader an
example to flock.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Pastors’, or leaders’
crown.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Cor. 9:19-27<br />
Rev. 3:11<br />
Phil. 1:20; 3:12-14</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Incorruptible or Victor’s
Crown</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those mature in every
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The faithful from beginning to
end in Christian life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those that practiced the
Word and were Christlike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you get
this you may get it all.</span></b></div>
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13. <span style="color: red;">I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end, the first and the last.</span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I am” - A great name of God
discussed in Exodus 3:14.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Alpha and Omega are the first and
last letters of the Greek alphabet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ and none other can make these
claims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is the creator and at
the end and forever He will be in complete control.</span></b></div>
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14. Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have
right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Greek authorities tell us that in
the original language, this should read, “Blessed are they who have washed
their robes.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These are the Christians or saints
rewarded to the highest degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessed</i> in this verse means happy.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Not only does the blood-washed
believers have right to the tree of life, but they will enjoy continued access
to the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The saints will have all
rights to enjoy the blessings of God.</span></b></div>
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15. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse does not mean just
outside the city limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse
refers to the same group mentioned in Revelation 21:8.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Dogs” refers to those who followed
the old sin nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This speaks of those
in the lake of fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a contrast
verse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a colored photograph of
unbelievers.</span></b></div>
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16. <span style="color: red;">I Jesus have sent mine angel to
testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring
of David, and the bright and morning star.</span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I Jesus” - The King of kings and
Lord of lords.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We are again assured that this is
not a riddle, not a book of confusion, but it is the Revelation of Jesus
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“In the churches” - We haven’t hear
of the church since chapter 5.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I am” – the great name of God</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Root” – Jesus Christ is God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Offspring of David” – refers to the
fact that Christ came into the world through the tribe of Judah (Gen.
49:10,11). David was from the tribe of Judah.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“and the bright and morning star” –
The bright star against a dark background means that Christ is a bright light
against the darkness of human history.</span></b></div>
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17. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that
heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the Spirit is the The Holy
Spirit and the bride is the bride of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is an invitation to the tribulational people to believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Anyone that hears this invitation is
urged to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ones who are
desperate are invited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The invitation
extends to all.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Water of life here is Jesus Christ
and eternal life; and freely means come without price.</span></b></div>
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18. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add
unto him the plagues that are written in this book: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is a warning for those who
tamper with the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have
been attacks on the Word of God in all ages, and the worst attack will come during
the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God will add the judgements of the
Tribulation to those who dare tamper with the Word of God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For I testify” – this is assured
from Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Every man that heareth the words of
the prophecy of this book.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is saying
to all that hear or read the message in Revelation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“If any man shall add unto these
things.” – This means adding to the teachings of the book of Revelation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The book of Revelation tells of many
judgements of God, so the one adding to His message shall suffer under the same
penalities of the judgment.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Dear sinner, don’t try to explain
away the judgements of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you
sow, you shall reap.</span></b></div>
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19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. </div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is a warning to those who deny
or explain away the teachings of the book of Revelation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This speaks of those who would
subtract from this book of Revelation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Take away his part” means the same
as “deny him any part”.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The whole passage therefore should
be viewed as indicating an entire condition of the heart and life.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Adding to or taking away from gives
insight to the attitude of a rejecting heart.</span></b></div>
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20. ¶ He which testifieth these things saith, <span style="color: red;">Surely I come quickly.</span> Amen. Even so, come, Lord
Jesus. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He which testifieth these things” -
This is the Lord Jesus and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">these things</i>
are the sayings and promises of this book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Surely I come quickly” - Here is
the final announcement of the second coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Quickly” speaks of the suddenness
in which the Lord will come.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John was convinced the Lord was
coming – Amen means I believe it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the prayer of the apostle
John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all that John saw, he prayed
for the coming of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
last recorded prayer of the Bible.</span></b></div>
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21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This great book of Revelation ends
on the basis of grace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We are saved by grace.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We are kept saved by grace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We become spiritual by grace.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We enter Heaven by grace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">THANK GOD FOR GRACE!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 21</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next two
chapters are very difficult chapters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They present to us a picture of the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is impossible to put into words an
accurate description of Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heaven
is so far beyond our fondest imagination that words cannot adequately describe
what it will be. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">When you get into eternity, there is little you can
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t in our vocabulary to
describe it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">John
is permitted to see the new heaven and new earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is discussed in 2 Peter 3:5.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
new heaven and new earth will have no sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sea is a picture of unrest and trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 5:30 speaks of the roaring of the sea
and Isaiah 57:20 refers to the wicked as being like the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in Heaven, there will be nothing to remind
us of unrest and trouble.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">John
is given a perfect view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
headquarters for the universe of eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will be the personal residence of the Lord Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some think this may be the dwelling place of
the bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">God’s
dwelling place will never undergo any change at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His house is perfect, unmarred and unscarred
by sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither evil nor enemy shall
ever invade God’s new heaven and earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">holy city</i> appears three times in
Revelation (11:2, 21:2, 22:19).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
first time it refers to the literal city of Jerusalem and the other two times,
it refers to the holy city after the battle of Gog and Magog.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“New
Jerusalem” here is in contrast to the literal city of Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new</i> is used here three times,
new heaven, new earth, and New Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Notice
where all of this is coming from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
does not say nor suggest that it came to rest upon the earth’s surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that the holy city will be
suspended between Heaven and earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
holy city illustrates the glory of eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Prepared
as a bride” - It was prepared at a point in the past and it will stand forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">In
John 14:2, Jesus said He was going to prepare this place and here it is
complete and ready.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
is a literal city, thus we will occupy a real city.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Adorned
for her husband” - This lets us know there are not enough adjectives in all the
languages of all the world to describe the magnificence of the city John saw
coming down from God out of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be
his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
appears to be the voice of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Behold”
- means to look.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
does not refer to the tabernacle in the Old Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It refers to Jesus Christ himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus will be in His glory in eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus dwelt in the tabernacle in the
wilderness, but here He is the tabernacle.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
is the fulfillment of Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No mediator is needed,
just “God with them.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
is not the Lord Jesus wiping the tears, but, rather it is Jehovah God himself.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">God’s
people are assured that all tears are wiped from their eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has brought an end to the cause that sin
brought upon man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All memories are
removed forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be perfect
happiness in this eternal state.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
5. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
is Jehovah God sitting on His throne, the throne of omnipotence, the throne of
absolute sovereignty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">God
will not repair or improve on the old order, but rather, make all things brand
new.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Write…”
- This is to emphasize the idea that God is going to keep His promises to
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a command from Jehovah God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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6. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“It
is done” means that it is a settled fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet,
and here it refers to the eternity of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This tells us that all testimony on the earth began with God and will
end in His glory.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
fountain is God, the water is promised to all that are thirsty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water of life is God’s gift freely
given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cannot be bought.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be
his God, and he shall be my son. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
overcomers are those who have trusted in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:4,5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the fulfillment of the promise of
eternal life. Notice the inheritance, all things.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
relationship we have with Christ in time is carried over into eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just one decision we make in time carries
over into all eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is grace at
its best.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">In
this verse is the list of characteristics of those that will have part in the
lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">fearful - cowardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those afraid to trust and identify with Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Unbelieving - bold Christ rejecters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Abominable - filthy, despicable, dopers, sex maniacs,
alcoholics from the gutter of the street of forgotten men.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Murderers - groups like Judas, Hitler, Stalin, and many
gangsters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Fornicators - lustful, immoral and unclean group.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Sorcerers - ones who profess to talk with spirits of the
other world, witches, devil worshipers, witchcraft, etc.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Idolaters - ones who worshiped other gods or idols.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Liars - those who couldn’t tell the truth, or those who
misrepresented the truth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Whoremongers - rapists, the immoral, women chasers,
harlots, prostitutes: both famous and not so famous.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">These
are the unbelievers in eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
will have their part in the lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">They
will burn and will continue to burn forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is their place forever - the lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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9. ¶ And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had
the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying,
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">John
is invited by one of the seven angels that poured out the seven vials to come
with him to see the bride, the Lamb’s wife.</span></b></div>
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10. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">John
is carried away in the spirit to a high vantage point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice John saw this in the spirit, we will
experience it literally.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">John
saw a complete view of that glorious city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The following is a comparison of this Jerusalem to the millennial
Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem has natural light.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem has spiritual light.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem has no walls.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem will have walls 200 feet tall.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem will have animal sacrifices.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem has no animal sacrifices.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem has living water coming out of the
temple.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem will have water coming out of the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem will have some unsaved in it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem
will have only saved in it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Millennial Jerusalem
has trees for food.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">New Jerusalem
has the tree of life.</span></b></div>
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11. Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone
most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">We
find here this city has “the glory of God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God made this city and it reflects His glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jasper stone is a perfect diamond.</span></b></div>
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12. And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at
the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the
twelve tribes of the children of Israel: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Here
we have the description of the wall, great and high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angels are door keepers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
names of the gates are the twelve tribes of Israel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Nepthalim,
Manasses, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zabulon, Joseph and Benjamin.</span></b></div>
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13. On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the
south three gates; and on the west three gates. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
verse tells us the location of the gates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Three on east wall, three on north wall, three in south wall, and three
on west wall.</span></b></div>
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14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them
the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
verse tells us about the foundation of this city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are twelve foundations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is like twelve floors, each being the
same size.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Names
of the 12 apostles written in the foundations:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Simon, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew,
James, Lebbaeus, Simon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is eleven!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Judas
Iscariot’s name will not be there, rather, Paul’s name will be there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Of
the Lamb.” - this is Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only two New
Testament writers ever referred to Christ as the Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are Peter and John.</span></b></div>
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15. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
angel is talking with John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“golden
reed” - is a measuring stick or rod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is measuring this beautiful place.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“the
city” - is New Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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16. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as
the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs.
The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
means the city was perfectly square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“the
length is as large as the breadth” - The same in each direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“Twelve
thousand furlongs.” This is 1,500 miles long, high, and wide.</span></b></div>
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17. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and
four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Here
is the measurement of the wall thickness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“An
hundred and forty and four cubits” - 216 feet thick.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">“According
to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.: - A cubit was from the elbow
to the tip of the finger of a man, about 18 inches.</span></b></div>
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18. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the
city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Here
we have a list of the building materials God used in the city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Jasper
is a perfect blue diamond.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Pure
gold - not 10 or 14 carat, but pure gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What a city!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">It
is so translucent, you can see yourself in it.</span></b></div>
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19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished
with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; </div>
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20. The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus;
the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Here
is a description of the foundations of the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a list of these precious stones:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Jasper - perfect blue/white diamond.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Sapphire - blue stone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Chalcedony - turquoise stone</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Emerald - green stone</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Sardonyx - red stone.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Sardius - a ruby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was worn in the breastplate of the High Priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was mined near Sardius.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Chrysolyte - yellowish green silicate.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Beryl - medium gree stone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Topaz - light yellow stone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Chrysoprasus -
a bright green stone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Jacinth - an
orange or brown stone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Amethyst - a
purple stone.</span></b></div>
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21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate
was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass. </div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Here
is the description of the gates and what they are made of.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Each
gate was made of one pearl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you
ever seen a pearl that big?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These gates
are huge.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Streets
are pure gold - without mixture.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">It
was so pure and shining it looks like glass.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
22. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and
the Lamb are the temple of it. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">No
need for a place of worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be
with Christ and that is enough.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
23. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Christ
will be all the light that is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
told us He was the light of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will be no darkness there ever.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
24. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the
light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into
it. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Notice
nations will be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse tells
us the city will be the center of eternity and the saints shall enter it to
bring honor and glory to the great God of glory.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
25. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for
there shall be no night there. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">The
pearl gates will never be closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is no nights there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Darkness in the
Bible often speaks of evil and wicked actions.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
26. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations
into it. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
is the eternal saints of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saints
will come to the city to give honor and glory to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice nations will be there.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they
which are written in the Lamb's book of life.</div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
verse tells us no sin will ever enter the city, nothing will ever defile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No fallen angels or unbelievers will ever be
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only God’s blood washed
believers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">This
book was once called the book of life, but here at the end, the only names in
this book are those washed in the blood of Calvary’s Lamb.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060;">Remember,
this Lamb’s book is not the church book nor a book of religion.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-21536465446427316542013-08-20T09:11:00.001-07:002013-08-20T09:11:03.432-07:00Revelation - Chapter 20<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 20</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">After seven long and increasingly severe years, the
Tribulation is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ Jesus comes
to earth again and the forces of Antichrist are defeated in the awesome battle
of Armageddon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now comes the calm after
the storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 20 of Revelation
informs us of the one thousand year reign of Christ on this earth known as the
Millennium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again this planet will
return to an atmosphere similar to the Garden of Eden.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An angel come down from heaven –
This is a very powerful angel with a great responsibility.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Having the key of the bottomless pit
– The key indicates the bottomless pit is locked up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bottomless pit is a place of torments.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A great chain in his hand – This
chain is for binding the devil.</span></b></div>
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2. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is
the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Laid hold on the dragon – The angel
doing this work is not named, but probably is Michael.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice the four names used here:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Dragon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
saw this name for the devil in 12:4-9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This refers to his power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">That old serpent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whenever these words are used for the devil, they are referring back to
his activity in the Garden of Eden when he led Adam and Eve astray.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Devil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
name means slanderer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
word comes from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shatan</i>, and means
adversary, enemy, the main enemy.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan was bound – This means the
most powerful creature of the evil world was bound by the powerful angel of
God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And bound him a thousand years –
This is the Millenium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">millennium</i> comes from two words, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">melle </i>meaning 1,000 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">annus</i> meaning year.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Six times in this chapter we have
the words <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thousand years</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God must have wanted us to well understand
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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3. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little
season. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
reason that the earth will return to an Edenic atmosphere is that an angel,
which proceeds out of heaven, seizes Satan and binds him for 1,000 years,
casting him into the bottomless pit, shutting him up and sealing him
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this is done to prevent
the devil from deceiving the nations till the 1,000 years are fulfilled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, he is again loosed for a little
season.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">This
is a literal 1,000 year era when the Lord of Glory will be the King of the
earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Multitudes
of people shall enter the Millennium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New Testament saints (the church) will rule and reign along with Christ
(3:21).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old Testament saints shall rule
in some sense as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other saints will
now be resurrected to reign with Christ.</span></b></div>
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4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness
of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast,
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in
their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John sees the judgment seat and the
judgments.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John sees those beheaded during the
Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were beheaded for
their witness of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not receive
the mark of the beast, neither worshiped the beast or his image. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here they are living with Christ
during the thousand year reign.</span></b></div>
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5. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
years were finished. This is the first resurrection. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Great
numbers of the nation Israel shall enter the Millennial Kingdom: the 144,000
(14:3-4), those who flee into the wilderness hideaway (12:6), and those who
remain in Jerusalem (12:17).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Millions
of Gentiles who are save during the Tribulation shall enter the Millennial
Kingdom of Christ (Mt. 13:41-43, 49-50; 25:41, 46).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no unsaved person will enter the
Millennium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have all been
vanquished in battle.</span></b></div>
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6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">With
the Antichrist and False Prophet in the lake of fire, and Satan bound in the
bottomless pit, this will be an idyllic place to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his vision John does not occupy himself
with the details of the Millennial kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, many Old Testament passages describe this blessed reign of
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Isaiah
2:2-4 indicates that Jerusalem will be the Lord’s capital city and the center
of the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the world will now
see for the first time what the United Nations spends millions of dollars each
year searching for but will never find…worldwide peace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">This
peace will come under the administration of the Prince of Peace. Read Isaiah
2:4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be no world peace until
the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, for there can be no peace apart from Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Read
Isaiah 11:6-8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have here a
description of peace and tranquility of Christ’s kingdom.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">During
the blissful 1,000 year reign of Christ this earth will have a perfect physical
environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will also have a perfect
spiritual environment because Satan is no longer free to deceive the
inhabitants of this planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will have
a perfect moral environment because the sovereign of this kingdom is Christ
Himself. (Psalm 2:6-9)</span></b></div>
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7. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the longest prison sentence
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8. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">After Satan is loosed, he goes out
to do what he does best, deceive.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice, nations are still around at
this time and the purpose of Satan has always been to deceive the nations.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Gog and Magog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the title for these people who
rebel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes this refers to
geographical locations, but here, it refers to people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There has been 1,000 years of
perfect peace, yet Satan has means of getting implements of war so he can wage
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Isaiah 2:4, we are told that
implements of war were beaten into pruning hooks, but there is no way to stop
war when evil, unbelieving men want to wage war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>War and crime come from the old sin nature
and these unbelievers, following Satan, even in the Millennium can produce
implements of war.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse tells us just how many
unbelievers will exist during the 1,000 year reign that will make up the final
army of the devil.</span></b></div>
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9. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed
the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God
out of heaven, and devoured them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">At
the end of the 1,000 years, Satan will be loosed from the bottomless pit and
again deceive the nations, gathering them together for battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">How
can there be any who follow Satan if all who enter the Millennium are washed
clean in the blood of the Lamb?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Although
all who enter Christ’s kingdom know and love the Lord, soon children will be
born to these believing parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
the course of 1,000 years, hundreds of thousands of children will be born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Christ rules in righteousness with a
rod of iron, they will worship Him on the outside but not all will worship Him
in their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who do not come
to truly love the Lord during the Millennium and place their trust in Him for
salvation will be gathered by Satan at the end of the 1,000 years in one final
desperate attempt to usurp the throne of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">As
in all other attempts, they will be unsuccessful, for God will send fire from
heaven and devour them (20:9).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
millennial reign of Christ illustrates two things.</span></b></div>
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1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having a perfect environment doesn’t
make a sinner into a saint. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those born in the Millennium have the most ideal
environment imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no war,
no famine, no moral corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still
they rally around the devil when he is finally loosed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">2.
Having a perfect heredity doesn’t make a sinner into a saint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Each of these born during the reign of Christ is born to
Christian parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But believing parents
do not make a believing child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children
of these millennial saints, number as the sands of the sea, will turn against
God the very first chance they get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it because of the sinful
nature which is part of every human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone, even those born to believers in the Millennium, must recognize
his individual responsibility to receive Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sin
and hell.</span></b></div>
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10. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented day and night for ever and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">With
Satan’s final armies purged from the earth by fire, Satan is himself now cast
into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False Prophet
still are after 1,000 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan, the
Antichrist and the False Prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">There
is no more graphic way of saying that hell is a place of torment which lasts
forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cults are wrong when they
say death is annihilation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scoffers
are wrong when they say they will enjoy hell with their friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell is sheer torment forever and ever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Immediately
after John views Satan being cast into hell, he receives another vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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11. ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it,
from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no
place for them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">This
time John sees a Great White Throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There have been other thrones mentioned in this book, but none are like
this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is pure white, the type of
white that makes everything else look dirty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only the wicked, the unsaved, will appear before this throne of
judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span> </span>Unbelievers will have no
difficulty in seeing their sin when they stand before the Great White
Throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one who sits upon this
throne is undoubtedly the Lord Jesus Christ, for “the Father judgeth no man,
but hath committed all judgment unto the Son” (Jn 5:22).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Verse
11 contains a curious reference to the fact that from the face of Christ the
earth and heaven flee away and no place is found for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most natural interpretation of this is
that at this time the present heaven and earth are destroyed and replaced by
the new heaven and new earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
Bible frequently anticipates the time when this present world will be destroyed
(Mt. 24:35; 2 Peter 3:10).</span></b></div>
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12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and
the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those
who stand before the Great White Throne are the dead, small and great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they appear before God, a single book and
many books are opened, and they are judged according to their works.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">What
can these books be?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
single book is identified by the verse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the Lamb’s book of life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Here
the names of God’s people are recorded from before the foundation of the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A careful search is made to be
absolutely certain that the names of none of these unsaved standing before the
Great White Throne are in the book of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>None are, for God keeps careful, perfect records and knows who are His
own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Jn 10:14).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Not
one person judged here has received Christ as Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the wicked who have died in ages
past, now resurrected to be judged.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Next
the many books are checked to see the works of these who are to be judged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book of life is not among these books,
which record the deeds of the wicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are condemned by the fact that their name is not in the book of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the degree of punishment they
receive for eternity is decided by the number and atrocity of their evil deeds
here on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The record of these deeds
is the substance of the books.</span></b></div>
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13. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man
according to their works. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice they were not judged according
to their sins, but according to their works.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice how many were judged…every
man.</span></b></div>
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14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is
the second death. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Greek
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hades</i> used here.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">No
one ever returns from hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death claims
the body and may be referred to as the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hades claims the soul and is an intermediate state for the wicked until
they are raised at the Great White Throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hell is the lake the lake of fire and in these verses John indicates
that death gives up the bodies of the wicked and hades gives up the souls of
the wicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus both are properly
judged and together cast into hell, the lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">This
means that the death unsaved men die on earth is only temporary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All will one day be raised and judged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since their names are not in the book of
life, they cannot inherit eternal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What they do inherit is the second death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this final death there is no
resurrection.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">It
is eternal separation from God in the darkness and punishment of hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the wicked die the first time, their
fate is sealed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no second
chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the dead are raised at the
end of the Millennium and stand before the Great White Throne Judgment, they
receive the fruit of their wicked deeds and rejection of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wages of sin is death…eternal death,
separation from God and everything desirable forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-26901324027090128392013-08-10T12:13:00.001-07:002013-08-10T12:13:12.120-07:00Revelation - Chapter 19<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 19</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">The first 10 verses of Revelation 19 are closely linked
to the events of Revelation 18:20-24.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Note that Revelation 19:1 begins with the words, <u>And after these
things.</u> After the destruction of Babylon the whole tenor of the book of
Revelation becomes that of rejoicing, for the King is coming.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This chapter deals with the marriage
supper of the Lamb and the second coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Marriage ceremonies of today and of
the Bible days are entirely different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In biblical times the important phase of a marriage was the negotiations
that went on prior to the actual wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The bride and groom may or may not have met each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The groom met with the bride’s father and
together the deal was made for the upcoming wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parents of the bride would agree to pay a
certain amount of money to the groom for him to take their daughter off their
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the basis of this agreement
the wedding date was set.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When the day arrived the groom would
come to the bride’s home with the best transportation he could afford and as
the mother of the bride would stand there weeping and the bride’s father would
stand there looking on, the groom would take the bride away with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that act, they were officially married.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They didn’t have wedding ceremonies
like we have today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The marriage feast
was to celebrate the event of the marriage, and this was held at the home of
the groom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The groom’s friend’s gathered
first, and the friends of the bride waited outside until the groom arrived at
his home with his bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the
bridegroom entered with his bride, then the bride’s friends all entered and
they joined together in the wedding celebration.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The celebration lasted from 1 to 10
days, according to the wealth of the groom and the provision that had been made
for the celebration and the feast.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These were the customs in biblical
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The things we conclude from this
are as follows - no ceremony, no ritual, no pronouncement of a preacher can
really make a marriage go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing
that makes the real marriage is the volitional decision of the man and the
woman to love each other and forsake their own homes in order to form a new
home.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">After the resurrection, during the
seven year Tribulation, the bride selected and the marriage of the Lamb will
take place. When Christ returns to the earth, the bride along with the church
saints and all believers will be with Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The marriage of the Lamb takes place
somewhere in the air during with time the seven year Tribulation is going on in
the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">At the end of the Tribulation, the
Lord returns to the earth with His bride to fight the Battle of Armageddon and
set up His kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This kingdom is
called the Millennium, the 1,000 year reign will be the great celebration feast
for the marriage.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Christ
and His Bride</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Jesus is referred to as the bridegroom (John 3:29)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">The church is His bride (Eph. 5:23-32)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">John the Baptist is the friend of the bridegroom (John 3:29)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">D.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">The church is espoused or betrothed to Christ (2 Cor. 11:2)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">E.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Christ paid the price for the church, His bride (Acts 20:28;
Eph 5:25)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">F.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Christ has returned to His Father’s house and is there
preparing a place for His bride (John 14:2)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">G.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Christ will one day return for His bride and take her back to
His Father’s house (John 14:3)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">H.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Remembering the four groups of people who accompanied the
wedding procession of the Hebrew marriage, let us not 1 Thess. 4:16.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Torchbearer - He is the light of the world and carries the
torch as He comes for His bride.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Shouters</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Singers</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Musicians</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">After receiving His bride, Christ will return with her to His
Father’s heavenly home, and there the marriage and the marriage supper will
take place (Rev. 19:7-9)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">J.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Guests at the marriage and marriage supper of the Lamb will
include:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Old Testament saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Church age saints who were not faithful in service.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">K.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">It is possible that the marriage feast will continue during
the thousand years of Christ’s millennial reign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is so, then the Tribulation saints
will be included as guests.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And after these things I heard a great voice of much people
in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto
the Lord our God: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">The song of praise by the angels, the 24 elders, the 4
living creatures, and the multitudes of heaven includes praise for God’s
righteousness in judging Anti-christ’s evil system of worship, as well as
praise for avenging the blood of so many Tribulation believers martyred by
Babylon.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“After these things” - after the
seven vials of judgment had been poured out and the judgment is over.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I heard” - refers to a specific
point of time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“A great voice of much people” - a
large group of people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“In heaven” - notice where they
were.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saying” - either singing or
shouting.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Alleluia” - praise to the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Note the difference in spelling this
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alleluia </i>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hallelujah.</i> This comes from the fact that in the Hebrew language,
they have the letter “H”, but in the Greek they do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word comes from the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hallel</i> and it means “praise the Lord.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This singing group is in Heaven and
they are oriented to grace, no jealousy, no pride, no mental attitude sins, no
old nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All have resurrected bodies
and all have perfection, so praising the Lord is just the natural thing for
them to do in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all have new
bodies like that of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible
says that when we see him, “we shall be like him” (1 John 3:2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All legalism is gone; there will be no
do-gooders, no self-righteous people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">alleluia</i> means a mental attitude of
grace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When we look upon God realizing how
we got there, and it was not our own merits, we will truly praise the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Today, people half-heartedly say,
“Praise the Lord,” but in Heaven it will be genuine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There are four words spoken by these
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s look at them:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Salvation - this word is first in the list because
this is the way we get there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This speaks of the cross of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Salvation is free to all - everyone that goes to
Heaven must have it. Christ is the door.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Glory - (Rom. 3:23)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This term refers to the ten essence qualities of
God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Honor - refers to the principle of grace. It means
God does the work and we receive the credit for what He does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God gets the honor for all that man has been
able to do on the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Power - means that it was through God’s ability
that this task was accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where
did power come from? It came from God and these people in Heaven very well
understand that.</span></b></div>
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2. For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged
the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“True and righteous are His
judgments” - This refers to the character of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s actions and judgments are always built
on truth and righteousness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Every action of God is perfect.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God cannot be unfair.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God was fair when dealing with Adam and Eve and
when He sent Noah’s flood.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God is always fair when He deals with us and He
will be fair when He sends the judgments in the last days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can rest assured, He will be fair when He
judges ecumenical (one-world) religion, the great whore and He will certainly
be fair when all unbelievers are in hell.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For He hath judged the great
whore.” - The great whore is anti-Christ and his false system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the one who placed his statue up in the
temple in Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point in
time, God has already judged this great whore.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The last part of verse 2 tells us of
the wicked actions of this anti-Christ.</span></b></div>
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3. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever
and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Again they said, Alleluia” - The
saints are still praising the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">All the cults of the earth and all
false religion will be removed and God’s people can truly praise the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And her smoke rose up for ever and
ever” - speaks of the perfect environment that will come when all evil is
destroyed.</span></b></div>
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4. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down
and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the praise of the angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The 24 elders and the four living
creatures refer to those who are in command.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Worshipped God that sat on the
throne.” - The one sitting on the throne is Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Amen” - means I believe it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Alleluia” - the angels are praising
the Lord.</span></b></div>
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5. ¶ And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God,
all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have a voice of
praise coming from the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Small” refers to angels
and angelic creatures.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Great” refers to men “saints”.
In eternity, men will be far higher than angels (Heb. 1:2).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When Christ died on the
cross, it was a low point, but it was a high point for us because it was our
salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was His low point because
it was His humiliation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he arose
from the grave, ascended and sat down at the right hand of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that moment, His humanity became superior
to all angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the first time
humanity was higher than angels and we will one day be superior to angels.</span></b></div>
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6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as
the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">The end is near.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Excitement and expectancy are in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great heavenly hallelujah chorus has
begun.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I heard”. John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was permitted to listen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a very large group of people shouting and singing praises unto
Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Alleluia.” Praise the
Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Lord God omnipotent
reigneth.” This is none other than Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the angelic choir
and is oriented to grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This singing
will last through the 1,000 year reign.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Omnipotent” means He is
all powerful and can do all things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has accomplished all things.</span></b></div>
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7. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">In conjunction with this great song of praise is the
marriage supper of the Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gathered
around the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, are those who are His bride.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">At the Rapture of the church, prior to the Tribulation
Period, we are joined in marriage to the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Now the wedding supper or feast, which always followed
the wedding ceremony after a brief interval, takes place.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Let us be glad and
rejoice, and give honour to him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i> in this verse refers to those
mentioned in the first six verses.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the marriage of the
Lamb is come” at exactly the right time on God’s calendar of events.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And His wife.” Here is the
bride selected and chosen from the faithful church saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hath made herself ready.”
This should read “she has been made ready.” She has been made ready by the
blood of Christ and her love and faithfulness to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her service to Him and her worship of Him is
part of her “being made ready”.</span></b><br />
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8. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And to her.” This is the
Bride of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Was granted” means was
allowed or permitted.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“She should be arrayed”
means she is clothed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Clean and white” refers to
her robe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice here it
says righteousness of saints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is
the only place in the Bible you find this phrase and it shoul read righteous
acts or deeds of the saints.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So this teaches us in order
to be the Bride of Christ, there must be some righteous deeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This teaches me that not all who have their
names on church rolls will be in the Bride of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this teaches that those in the
Bride of Christ will have practiced some godly living, faithful living, and
some righteous living.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">In a joyous celebration, we who are the saints of God,
raptured up to heaven before the Tribulation, stand before the Lord as bride
before Bridegroom arrayed in <u>fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen
is the righteousness of saints.</u></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Our labors for the Lord, found worthy at the Judgment
Seat of Christ, now clothe us. And, from our vantage point in heaven, we join
in praising the Lord of Glory, for the great harlot has been overthrown.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">With this the stage is set for the most dramatic entrance
in history. With the tone of Revelation changed from somber to jubilant, the
way is prepared for the Second Coming of Christ.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">He is about to come as the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
LORDS. What a joyous day that will be when the seven years of Tribulation are
ended, judgment upon the earth is over, and Jesus Christ comes as the Prince of
Peace to reign in peace.</span></b><br />
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9. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are
called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are
the true sayings of God.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see the invitation
extended to the friends or guests.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And he saith unto me,
Write.” John is instructed to send out the invitation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Blessed” means happy, and
a great joy to be there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“They which are called.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means happy are those that are invited
to be a guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please read John 3:29.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Who will the guests
be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be the Old Testament
saints, those saved during the church age and were not a part of the bride of
Christ and those saved during the Tribulation period.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Marriage supper of the
Lamb.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the great wedding
feast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many suppers discussed
in the Bible including fellowship suppers and the Lord’s supper.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“These are the true sayings
of God” means these are my true promises.</span></b><br />
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10. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me,
See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the
testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see John’s
response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John got excited and fell to
worship the angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The angel rebuked
John and told him not to do it.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angel identified
himself and said, “I am thy fellowservant” and fellowservant of thy brethren.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Worship God” means it is a
command.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the testimony of Jesus
is the spirit of prophecy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
telling us to learn of Christ, learn His doctrine and know about Him and love
Him through the knowledge of prophecy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
cannot know Jesus apart from the entire biblical record and prophecy is a great
part of that record.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">The Triumphal Re-entry as KING OF KINGS 11-16</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Take a deep breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are about to consider the most mind-boggling event of history past,
present, or future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great harlot
Babylon has been over-thrown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is fantastic
rejoicing and praise in heaven, for the blood of the saints is avenged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet this rejoicing only foreshadows the event
which immediately follows, the Second Coming of Christ to this earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">No imagination can quite visualize this scene which the
saints of all the ages have longingly anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is marvelous.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Christ first came to earth in the form of a baby in
Bethlehem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no room for Him in
the inn and therefore He was born in a stable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This coming was quiet, on a silent night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came to die for our sins.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">One day soon He will come again to lead to heaven all who
know Him as Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will not come to
earth at this time, but only into the clouds, where we are caught up to meet
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His coming is accompanied with the
sounding of trumpets, perhaps heard only by those who are born again, whose
ears are tuned to the trump of God.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">But the event portrayed here is neither the coming of the
Lord as a baby or His coming in the clouds to rapture His church.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">It is His second coming to earth, and He will do so as
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will
come to wage war against the Beast and the False Prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will come to end the years of awful
tribulation. He will come as the Mighty Warrior.</span></b><br />
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11. ¶ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he
that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth
judge and make war.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John was permitted to get a
panoramic view.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Imagine this dramatic moment. Suddenly the heavens part,
not to permit entrance, but to permit the Lord Jesus and His armies to ride out
of heaven to do battle with the forces of Antichrist. </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Behold” means to look
suddenly.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">As if the opening of heaven were not dramatic enough,
Christ will ride a white horse through the opening in the skies. There will be
no mistaking Him for the Antichrist, who rode a white horse in Revelation 6:2.
This is the real conqueror. This is Christ, the Son of the living God.</span></b><br />
</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“A white horse.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember the Bible must be interpreted in the
light of the time in which it was written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The white horse has through all the ages been ridden by conquerors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great kings, emperors and rulers rode white
horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The riding of the white horse
was always significant of victory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
that time, white horses were rare and only the elite had them.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He that sat upon him was.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is Jesus Christ riding His horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the victor.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The one riding the white
horse in Revelation 6 is the anti-Christ, but here it is the Lord of lords and
King of kings, the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></b><br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Was called Faithful and
True.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Called</i> means in eternity past
God gave Him a name that is above every name and that name is Faithful and True
and that name will continue forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Faithful and true are two
characteristics of God.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And in righteousness”
means that God always deals in that which is right.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He doth judge” means that
Christ will judge every unbeliever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And make war” This is the
Battle of Armageddon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice who it is
that makes war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is Christ and it also
means Christ is the winner.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">Notice the graphic description of the Divine General who
rides the white horse in verses 12-16.</span></b><br />
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12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is a description of
how Christ returns and how he looks.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Eyes were as a flame of
fire” - speaks of His justice and judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“On his head were many
crowns.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In biblical times, rulers,
kings and emperors wore crowns, but here Christ is coming as King of the
universe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And he has a name written
that no man knew, but he himself.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
refers to the fact that a side of Christ’s personality will here be revealed
which the unbeliever did not know about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The unbelievers will be shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will not be the meek and mild Jesus that most think of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, every knee will bow and every tongue
will confess that He is Lord.</span></b><br />
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13. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his
name is called The Word of God.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A vesture was a Roman
mantle or long flowing robe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Roman
soldier had to be in charge of at least 1,000 men before he could wear the
vesture, but here Christ is wearing one and is in complete charge of the
universe.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Dipped in blood.” Read
Isaiah 63:1-4 and Revelation 14:14-20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This refers to the fact that His vesture was dripping with the blood of
those He had killed on the battlefield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the Battle of Armageddon and notice that Christ does all the
fighting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ones with him will not
fire a shot.</span></b><br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And his name is called The
Word of God” means the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">logos</i> of God
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">logos </i>means more than “word”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John wanted to join the Jesus of time with
the God of eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Logos</i> means the first word, the original
thought and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before any thing was,
Jesus was there (the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">logos</i> of God).</span></b><br />
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14. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.<br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Ane the armies which were
in heaven” - The armies of Heaven are all the redeemed of the ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice we are called an army because we are
with our commander and He is engaged in battle.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Followed him upon white
horses.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This refers to the saints of
the ages riding white horses because we are the victors.</span></b><br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Clothed in fine linen
white and clean. This refers to the fact we are clothed with the perfection of
God. (Clothed in fine linen refers to the best God has.)</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“White and clean” refers to
the fact we will have no sin nature and no human good.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We will be riding with Him
in this battle, but He does all the fighting.</span></b><br />
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15. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.<br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword.” He does the fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sharp
sword is His perfect judgment. </span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Smite the nations.” Notice
that nations are still around at the second coming of Christ. God has always
used nations to balance power.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Rule them with a rod of
iron” means ruling in His perfect discipline and perfect justice.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Treadeth the winepress.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means His actions will be like a man of
old tramping in a winepress pressing out the blood of the grapes.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God” speaks of fervor God brings about this judgment.</span></b><br />
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16. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.<br />
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He hath on his vesture.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is His tallit (prayer shawl). This means
it is written and stands forever.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And on his thigh a name
written.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His name will be written for
the world to see on His Jewish prayer shawl.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Roman generals wore a
banner with the names of the nations they had conquered.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“KING OG KINGS.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is His name written and refers to His
humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This name will be on the
corner of the tallit.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“LORD OF LORDS.” This too
is His name and refers to His deity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This name will be on the corner of the tallit.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
17. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a
loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;<br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And I saw an angel
standing in the sun.” John was permitted to see a very special angel.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And he cried with a loud
voice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John was permitted to hear the
voice of this angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Loud voice” speaks
of loud, clear and precise voice.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven.” This angel is crying aloud to the vultures
and buzzards that fly in the heavens.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will be the supper of the ages for these vultures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This very bright angel was standing and not
sitting because of the terrible sight that was before him.</span></b><br />
</div>
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18. That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of
captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them
that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and
great.<br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The vultures and buzzards
were invited to eat and drink.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice there are seven
classes of people involved in this judgment supper.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Kings - these are
the wicked rulers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Captains<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- these are military men.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Mighty men - these
are political leaders.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The flesh of horses
- this refers to the equipment of the warriors.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those that sat on
the horses - this refers to the men in the armies.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Free men - this
refers to the upper class of men.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Bond men - this
refers to the lower class of men.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice there are seven
groups of them and this speaks of total judgement.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
19. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against
his army.<br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I saw the beast and the
kings of the earth, and their armies.” This speaks of the anti-Christ and the
revived Roman empire and their army of the unsaved.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Kings of the earth” also
speaks of the king of the north (Russia), the king of the east (China), the
king of the south (Arab), and the king of the west (revived Roman empire).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Gather together to make
war.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The devil makes his last stand.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This battle is the Battle
of Armegeddon.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Against him that sat on
the horse”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine people trying to fight
Christ?</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And against his army.”
This is us, the redeemed of all ages. </span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This will take place in the
valley of Megiddo.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast
alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.<br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The beast was taken.” This
is the dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And with him the false
prophet.” This is the dictator of Palestine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“That wrought miracles”
means they were miracle workers. Always beware of miracle workers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“With which he deceived
them that had received the mark of the beast.” This tells us the way the
anti-Christ deceived people and persuaded them to take the mark of the beast.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And worhsipped his image.”
This is the statue the anti-Christ placed in the temple in Jerusalem and
demanded the world to fall down and worship.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“These both were cast alive
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Notice the beast and false prophet were cast into the fire.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Lake of fire.” This is the
final place of torment for the devil and every unbeliever.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
21. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat
upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;"></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Remnant were slain with
the sword of him that sat upon the horse.” This statement is in the past tense
and you can see what happens to the unbelievers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which sword proceeded out
of his mouth.” This is the way they were slain, with the power of the mouth of
Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.” The vultures and buzzards had a feast and their
stomachs were filled.</span></b><br />
</div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 18</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The preceding chapter recorded the fall of the great
harlot, Babylon the Great.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">It is likely that this event takes place in the middle
of the Tribulation, for the fall of the harlot is the destruction of the false
system of religion which Satan has supported through the centuries. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">It is the destruction of the ecumenical church, the one-world
church, after Antichrist no longer needs it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">In chapter 18, we have more information about this fall
of political or governmental Babylon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The difference in emphasis between the two chapters is this:</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">In chapter 17 it was the Beast and his ten nation
confederacy who destroyed religious Babylon. In chapter 18 political Babylon is
destroyed by God Himself in preparation for the coming of the KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. ¶ And after these things I saw another angel come down from
heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And after these things” – refers to
the things in chapter 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means after
the political side of the revived Roman empire destroys the religious side of
the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">In this chapter we see commercial
Babylon destroyed.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I saw” – This is John, a panoramic
view of the end time. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Another angel come down from heaven
having great power.” The sixth vial was the Armageddon campaign and the seventh
vial was the destruction of religion.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This angel was introduced back in
Revelation 16:17 and was heard saying “It is done.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Having great power and with great
light.” – The glory of God has always been described as a light brighter than
the light of the sun, so here we meet the glory of God’s presence.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion has long been one of the
great evil forces in our nation, and is one of the forces leading to our
national decay and decline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion is
the reason we are in the trouble we are in.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Chapter 18 presents us a preview of
the final destruction of Satan’s government system and its sudden destruction.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This satanic system will dominate
all peoples, nations at this point in history.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He cried mightily” – means the
angel sounded a very loud voice.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“With a strong voice” – means loud
and clear.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen.” – This is the announcement of judgement upon this pagan system. The
angel is shouting this message.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Is fallen, is fallen” is an aorist
tense and means that in a point of time, when the system was at its peak, the
destruction finally fell.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Babylon is guilty of all the
corruption, violence and shame that has darkened the history of the human race.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The city of Babylon does not exist,
but the spirit of the wicked system of Babylon does exist.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The last few words of this verse
gives us a picture of things when God brings judgment on the wicked system of
the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Read Isaiah 13:21 and Jeremiah
50:39.</span></b></div>
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3. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“All nations have drunk of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication” – means that all nations of that time joined
in the false religious system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Drunk of the wine of her wrath” – refers
to the success of religious internationalism in gaining converts in every
nation of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Merchants…of her delicacies” –
refers to a fat, rich and corrupt religious combination means you play ball
with me and I will give you contracts. Or, you vote for me and I will dance to
your music.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The great harlot is fallen, Babylon as a system of
religion is demonic. She is unfaithful to God and has spiritually fornicated
with the nations of the world, soiling the message of true religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a perfect picture of the
union of the church and state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
so entwined, you cannot tell one from the other.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Babylon is intoxicating and drags down with her the
nations which align themselves with this false church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have an easy form of religion with the
harlot; a few dollars can make the church look the other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is no wonder they weep over her
destruction.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Abundance of her delicacies” refers to
luxury.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">It is evident that with the corruption of this end-time
system of religion many people will become wealthy. There is much business
transacted in the church of the great harlot. She has accumulated great wealth
and is a powerful force in business.</span></b></div>
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4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plagues. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Another voice from heaven” – meant
another different from the angel in verse 1.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John is permitted to hear still another voice from
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The message given by his voice
is reminiscent of God’s call to Lot begging him to leave worldly Sodom before
total judgment (Gen 19:15-22).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Come out of her my people.” – This
is a call for separated living.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Here men and women of the Tribulation Period are urged
by God to come out of ecclesiastical Babylon just as the children of Israel
were urged to come out of ancient Babylon (Jer 51:45). </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Be not partakers of her sins.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her</i> speaks of the false religious
system, and the voice is commanding not to fall in her trap.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The last part of this verse is
saying get away from her and don’t receive her judgments.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">And why? Because by separating themselves from this
apostate form of Christianity they will not partake of her sin and will not
have the plagues inflicted on them that are certain to afflict ecclesiastical
Babylon (18:6-8).</span></b></div>
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5. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Her sins have reached unto heaven.”
– This verse lets us know God is very aware of what is going on here on earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“God hath remembered her
iniquities.” – This lets us know God is keeping the records and He doesn’t miss
a thing.</span></b></div>
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6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her
double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Reward her even as she rewarded
you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This refers to the sure judgment
of God and the justice that prevails in His judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Also, it means the system will be
judged with the same judgement as she used.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The indictment against Babylon calls for retributive
judgment that is doubled, because the enormity of her sin can require nothing
but double severity in judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Double” – means two judgements.
They will be judged here at the Great White Throne Judgement.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice the judgement of works, no
salvation.</span></b></div>
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7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,
and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Whereas Babylon had lived “deliciously” now the
judgment of God falls on her and delicate living gives way to disastrous
plagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Whereas she anticipated seeing no sorrow, now she sees
nothing but sorrow.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“How much she hath glorified
herself.” – This speaks of the pride this system had.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Lived deliciously” – means she
lived as she liked with no regard for morals, respect for life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Am no widow” – means she has plenty
of friends.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Shall see no sorrows” – means she
thinks she is above God.</span></b></div>
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8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is
the Lord God who judgeth her. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">There is no reason not to understand her final
destruction as coming in one day (vs. 8). It happened before with another
Babylon (Dan. 5:1, 3-5, 30), and it often occurs with individuals (Lk
12:19-20).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Isn’t it ironic that the city which once burned
Christians for having allegedly burned it, will itself be burned with literal
fire?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Death, and mourning and famine” –
describes her judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“mourning” – here means mental
regret.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is where religion died.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Utterly burned with fire” – refers
to the second part of the double judgment back in verse 6 and this refers to be
burned in the fire of hell and destruction.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fire” here speaks of hell.</span></b></div>
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9. ¶ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication
and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Political and economic Babylon now comes into
view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the destruction of the false
church comes the collapse of the financial association between the ecumenical
church and the nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Now the economic and political city, symbolized by
Babylon, is destroyed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Kings of the earth” – refers to the
nations comprising the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Who have committed fornication with
her.” This speaks of those who participated with her in religious business.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Lived deliciously” – means those
that lived in luxury at the death, and destruction of others.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Shall bewail her, and lament for
her.” This means they weep and watch as the judgment comes and the bottom falls
out of the system they have participated in.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“When they shall see the smoke of
her burning.” This speaks of the destruction of this false religious system.</span></b></div>
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10. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas,
alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy
judgment come. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The kings of the earth lament because of the collapse
of the false church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the wail of the ten nation
league of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Alas, alas, that great city
Babylon, that mighty city.” – This speaks of the alarm as the great and mighty
system fell.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For in one hour is thy judgment
come” – speaks of how sudden the judgment came, one hour.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thy” in this verse speaks of God.</span></b></div>
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11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over
her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Merchants” – speaks of business men
on earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Weep and mourn over her.” – They
are crying because their business is gone, their greed caused them to weep and
mourn.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“No man buyeth their merchandise any
more.” – This means they have lost their business and the world economy has
gone to pieces.</span></b></div>
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12. The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones,
and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all
thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most
precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see the continued wail of
the economic leaders of this system and their wail will continue through verse
19.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the breakdown of the
economic system of this vast empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wealth is always a false foundation
of life, whether it be an individual or nation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice in this verse “thyine wood”
and it is only found in North Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a citrus tree and its wood makes beautiful table tops and fine
furniture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This indicated that at the
end of the Tribulation period, Africa will still be an industrial nation.</span></b></div>
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13. And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense,
and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and
horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse describes the dainties of
the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a picture of the wealthy
lording over the poor.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice here that slavery is still in
existence in the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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14. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from
thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and
thou shalt find them no more at all. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wealth, position and leadership all
vanished overnight (one hour) in this collapse.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is an amazing picture of
financial disaster.</span></b></div>
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15. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the collapse of the stock
market.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The collapse of the entire religious
empire.</span></b></div>
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16. And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in
fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones,
and pearls! </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">We see people of wealth losing their
entire fortunes in a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse
speaks of the elite folks.</span></b></div>
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17. For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every
shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by
sea, stood afar off, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the collapse of
transportation in the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>International trade is over with.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This includes trucks, planes, ships,
and rails.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
18. And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying,
What city is like unto this great city! </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This speaks of their crying and
concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They trusted in the powers of
this system, and now it has fallen and they watch and cry in amazement.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and
wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that
had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made
desolate. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see the merchant and cargo
ships are out of business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They watch as
their wealth and riches go up in judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In one hour, they are made desolate.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and
prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see God’s attitude toward
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The born again believers attitude
toward this is the same and is expressed in the term “rejoice”.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The rejoicing comes from the fact
that God has finally triumphed over the world wide system of evil.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
21. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,
and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city
Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is an illustration of how God
will judge the whole system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
millstone is a picture of God’s sudden destruction of all evil.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
22. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of
whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a
millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here the musical world goes to
pieces.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Craftsman” names for mechanics and
engineers.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The whole system is coming apart at
the seams.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sound of a millstone shall be heard
no more.” This refers to all manufacturing industry coming to a halt.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in
thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more
at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries were all nations deceived. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Light of a candle” – refers to the
entertainment world falling apart.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The theaters will all close down.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Voice of the bridegroom” is a
reference to all social activities coming apart.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Bride shall be heard no more” – no
more celebrations.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived.” – This refers to Satan and his demonic power over men and
nations.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Evil spirits led in this worldwide
deception and destruction.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">We see that their economic,
religious and political system controlled every area of life and it fell in one
day.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
24. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints,
and of all that were slain upon the earth.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;"></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse reveals the true nature
of these religious leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
slaughtered God’s believers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Millions of believers will be
killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the worst period in
human history.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Chapter 18 is a photograph of
religion and all her system of deception.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan has a free hand to deceive,
but he finally runs out of gas.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a challenge to believers to
study and learn Bible doctrine and thereby avoid religion and such things as
tongues, healings, emotionalism, liberalism and do-goodism.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Let me remind you that God will
bring every sin, every evil and every unbeliever to judgement.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-50210704270335357932013-07-22T11:12:00.000-07:002013-07-22T11:12:03.871-07:00Revelation - Chapter 17<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 17</span></u></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">What do we mean
exactly when we refer to ecumenical religion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Ecumenism</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> mainly refers to initiatives aimed at greater Christian unity or
cooperation. These intiatives are often referred to as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">interdenominational</span>. It is used predominantly by and with
reference to </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_denominations" title="Christian denominations"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Christian denominations</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> and </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Christian Churches</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> separated by </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">doctrine</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">, </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History" title="History"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">history</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">, and practice. Within this particular context, the term <i>ecumenism</i>
refers to the idea of a Christian unity in the literal meaning: that there
should be a single Church. Not to be confused with </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondenominational_Christianity" title="Nondenominational Christianity"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Nondenominational Christianity</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The word contrasts with </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith" title="Interfaith"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">interfaith</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> dialogue or interfaith pluralism
aimed at unity or cooperation among diverse religions and referring to a
worldwide "religious unity" by the advocacy of a greater sense of
shared </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">spirituality</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The word is derived from </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Greek</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> οἰκουμένη (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikoumene" title="Oikoumene"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">oikoumene</span></a></i>), which
means "the whole inhabited world", and was historically used with
specific reference to the </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Roman Empire</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">. The ecumenical vision comprises
both the search for the visible unity of the Church (Ephesians 4.3) and the "whole
inhabited earth" (Matthew 24.14) as the concern of all Christians.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">By now one is aware that the revelation received by
John deals with different events which do not always proceed in chronological
order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally John is drawn aside
to receive additional information about something previously introduced but now
more fully explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On these occasions
a chapter or two is inset into the narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is the case with chapters 17-18.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">In Revelation 14:8 the destruction of Babylon is
foretold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now John is given greater
detail about its fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapters 17-18
deal with the destruction of Babylon, which represents religion and government
in the end of the age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 17
records the destruction of ecclesiastical Babylon, and Revelation 18 records
the destruction of political Babylon.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">These two events do not take place at the same time.
The destruction of Babylon, as representing the false religion of the future
world church best fits into the period of the first three and one-half years of
Tribulation.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">When Christ raptures His church and we go to live
forever with Him, it doesn’t mean the end of religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many churches and religious orders will
function with “business as usual,” for the Lord Jesus Christ is not even a part
of them today.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">When as born-again believers we are taken to heaven,
these religions will continue to thrive and Satan will even permit them to
grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The devil will use false religion
for his own evil purposes until he no longer needs it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the rise of the Antichrist, in the
middle of the Tribulation, religious activity of all forms, except that
instituted by the beast, will cease, and the great ecclesiastical Babylon will
be overthrown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This event is described
in chapter 17.</span></b><br />
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1. ¶ And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven
vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee
the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">We are immediately faced with the problem of
identifying this great whore or harlot who is about to be judged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scripture tells us in verse 5 that this
harlot is Babylon the Great.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Here we begin to see the end of ecumenical religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is pinpointing His judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He calls ecumenical religion “the great
whore.” The Bible portrays life like it is. This is reality. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #8064a2;">Ecumenism is a
vile and corrupt system.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Money and lust play a great part in the whoredom of
religion. This system involves men with lust to do human good and get
power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an attractive system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“The great whore” is the false religion system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Come hither” means John was permitted to see this
great false system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Judgment” means God’s mighty wrath.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Sitteth” means the place or throne of the false
religious system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Many waters” refers to people, nation of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read Ch. 17:15, this verse refers to races –
nations refer to geographical areas – tongues refer to language – national
units.</span></b></div>
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2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The leaders of the earth operate in this system under a
strong delusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They give lip service
to this false system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This is the international religion of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This is the state and religion operating together.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">God never intended for religion to control a state and
He never intended for a state to seize authority over the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are separate and both are free.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">They can exist side by side without either losing their
identity, but they cannot join together without one or the other losing their
identity.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We see in this that the leaders of the earth joining up
with false religious system and they become intoxicated with power and soon
were engulfed by it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">For the mechanics of this system look at:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">2 Thess. 2:7</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We already have these false
religious systems in the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
known by many names such as World Council of Churches, Romanism, Ecumenical
Religion, New World Order, etc.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">At present time, the ministry of
the Holy Spirit is restraining or holding them back.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This system of false religion has
not been able to conquer the world.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">When the Holy Spirit is removed
from the earth in church capacity, the false religions will come in full force.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">2 Thess 2:8</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This is the dictator of the
revived Roman empire and he plays an important role in the last days.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">2 Thess 2:9</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">How does this dictator operate?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Satan works through him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Matthew 4 – Satan offered Christ
the kingdoms of this world if He would bow down and worship him and Christ
refused.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Here, Satan offers these kingdoms
to this dictator and he accepts the offer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This dictator will use his
personality to get ahead in the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">He will employ tongues and all
kinds of miracles to impress people and this world is charmed by his miracles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Even today, people are elated by
the works of Satan, but during the Tribulation, they will fall head over heels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">2 Thess 2:10,11</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Strong delusions – means God
removes all restraint from negative decisions.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">When we read the “God hardened
Pharaoh’s heart,” it simply means that God removed all restraint and took off
the brakes and allowed Pharaoh to go completely over to negative choice.</span></b></div>
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3. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and
I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We have been studying the 7 deadly drinking cups and
the judgment of God poured out on the earth during the last part of the 7-year
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The 7<sup>th</sup> drinking cup judgment was poured out
on interdenominational religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">In the next verses, we see this religion compared to a
prostitute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Power lust and lust for
money are both involved in this operation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">In this verse, John is carried away in the spirit to
Rome, not literally, but in a vision.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Remember the Bible never has anything good to say about
religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Remember also, what religion is, it is man’s effort to
do only what God can do.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Religion emphasizes human works and ignores God’s grace
(Matt. 23).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The worst people in the world are not immoral people,
but they are religious people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Wilderness” refers to wasted area or spiritual
desolation under satanic rule.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Scarlet coloured beast” is the dictator of the revived
Roman empire. The Roman army wore scarlet colored coats. This place is Rome.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Full of names of blasphemy” simply means something
that contradicts Bible doctrine. A name can refer to a person or a principle
and here it refers to a principle that is anti-biblical.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Seven heads” refers to the seven nations that have
inflicted discipline unto the Jews in the past. They are Egypt, Assyria,
Chaldea, Persia, Greece, Rome and the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Ten horns” are the 10 nations making up the federation
of the nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the United States is
in Bible prophesy, it will be one of the 10 nations or part of one of the ten
nations.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The revived Roman empire will have two legs, they are
religion and politics.</span></b></div>
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4. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Woman was arrayed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the glamor of this interdenominational religious-political
system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Arrayed” is in the perfect tense and means purple and
scarlet are her permanent type of apparel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Purple and scarlet” these were the two royal colors of
the ancient world, representing religion and politics.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Decked” means to wear something. It is an old English
word for dress.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This woman was “decked out” as we say in her expensive
robe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This woman is the dictator of Rome.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Gold and precious stones and pearls” refers to her
fabulous wealth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Having a golden cup in her hand” refers to her
pleasure.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Abomination” refers to sensual pleasure and means she
only lived for pleasure.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Filthiness” refers to that which is contrary to true
Bible doctrine.</span></b></div>
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5. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Why is this in capital letters?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing in the original language
that would suggest this passage should be in capital letters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The reason was someone who was translating this passage
when the King James translation was made put these words in capital letters and
they have remained ever since.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The Church of England at that time was having a great
struggle with the Roman Catholic church and that fact accounts for these
letters being placed in large type.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Upon her forehead was a name written” means upon the
seat of her thinking.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Mystery” refers to a doctrine not known in the Old
Testament which was revealed in the New Testament. This part of Tribulation was
never revealed in the Old Testament.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Read Colossians 1:25, 26 and Romans 16:25, 26.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Babylon” means confusion and is the title given her
because Babylon is where religion started.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The matter of identifying this great city is a subject
of much debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many good
Bible scholars who believe that this refers to the once great capital of the
Babylonian Empire, now lying in ruins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They maintain that the city will one day be rebuilt and become both the
religious and commercial center of the world (Her 50-51). However, this may not
be the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Babylon is frequently used
in Scripture to refer to a system of idolatrous religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to bear in mind that in
Revelation Babylon refers to both a city and a religious system, just as Wall
Street refers to both a street and a system of free economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is highly likely that this Babylon
represents another city and religious system which displays the characteristics
of the once evil Babylon.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Therefore it very well may be that the city of Babylon
doesn’t exist, but her spirit lives on in Rome and in this verse Babylon may speak
of Rome.</span></b></div>
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6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with
great admiration. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Religion always persecutes the truth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">In the Tribulation, they will use their power to
eliminate those who are born again and who believe the truth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Here we see the attitude of religion toward Bible
truths.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Drunken with the blood of the saints” means that she
was saturated with power and ruthlessness. This speaks of the martyrs of the
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“When I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”
This really means, “When I saw her, I was utterly shocked.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Shocked at her tremendous power and at the slaughter
she brought to the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">In the next few verses, John is going to explain why he
was shocked and amazed.</span></b></div>
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7. ¶ And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I
will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her,
which hath the seven heads and ten horns. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel” or,
John, why are you shocked?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“I will tell thee the mystery of the woman.” The woman
is the dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“That carrieth her” is the interdenominational
religious system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Ten horns” are the ten federated nations that make up
the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend
out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the
earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">This beast is the same one referred to in 11:7 as
coming out of the abyss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is said to
carry the harlot, and is described as having seven heads and ten horns.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Remember, John wrote this in A.D. 95.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This was toward the end of the Augustine era of Rome.
Julius Caesar had been killed and replaced by the Flavian Caesars. They will
rule from A.D. 96 to 192. This was Rome’s greatest era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other rulers came to Rome and the Roman
empire lasted until A.D. 476.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“The beast that thou sawest was” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Was</i> is in the imperfect tense and it means came to a close.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Was” until A.D. 476.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And is not” came to a close.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Shall ascend out of the bottomless pit” means it shall
arise. This is the revived Roman empire at the end time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Bottomless pit” refers to satanic forces. Bottomless
pit is used because the dictator has a league with Satan and is evil as Satan.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Perdition” refers to judgments that are coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ will come and destroy him and throw
him into perdition.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“They that dwell on the earth shall wonder”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Whose names were not written in the book of
life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every member of the human race
has his name written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if one does not believe in Christ, his name
is rubbed out of the book, and at the end time those names in the book of life
are only those who have been born again.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Book of life in eternity, only names of believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It ends up as the “Lambs Book of Life.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Book of works in Revelation 20:11-15 contains the names
of unbelievers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“From the foundation of the world.” This phrase simply
means from the ultimate source of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Beast that was” refers to the Roman empire that
existed until A.D. 476.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And is not” refers to the Roman empire coming to a
close.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And yet is” refers to the future of the Roman empire,
it will rise again.</span></b></div>
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9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are
seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The scripture here interprets itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seven heads of this beast are seven
mountains.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Rome is called the city of seven hills because the city
is built on seven mountains.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Here is the mind which hath wisdom.” Here is one who
has been listening.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Seven heads” refers to the seven nations that have
ruled Israel. (Discussed in verse 3).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Seven mountains.” In history mountains symbolized
empires or governments, but in this verse, it means nations.</span></b></div>
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10. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and
the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The identification of the seven heads of the Beast,
however, is symbolic of seven kings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These apparently have something to do with Rome. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Seven kings” are heads of seven nations. The same
seven that has ruled Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Five are fallen.” They are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon,
Persia, and Greece.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">This must indicate a selective list of kings prior to
John’s day (more than seven had ruled); one is John’s contemporary, and one is
yet to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And one is” The one that is, is the one that existed
during the moment that was spoken to John and that being the Roman empire that
ruled in A.D. 95.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #8064a2;"> </span><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The Beast himself is identified as the eighth king,
whose doom is certain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And the other is not yet come.” This is the revived
Roman empire at the end time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“When he cometh,
he must continue a short space” means the revived Roman empire will only rule a
short time at the end time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This refers
to the seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
11. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth,
and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Beast that was” Roman empire that ruled in the time of
John.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And is not” came to a close in A.D. 95. It did not
completely die, because it will be revived.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Even he is the eighth.” This beast comes out of the
seventh thus it is called the eighth.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And is of the seven” means he comes from the seventh
kingdom.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which
have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the
beast. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The horns of the Beast are ten kings (Dan 7:23-24).
These form the nucleus of the Beast’s power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their power is subject to the Beast’s.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Ten horns” refers to the ten federated nations that
make up the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b><span style="color: #8064a2;">“Ten kings” are the leaders of these ten nations. </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Which have received no kingdom as yet.” This means
when John was writing this, these nations had not and have not as of now risen
to form the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“But receive power as kings one hour.” One hour refers
to the seven year Tribulation and then only will these kings receive power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b><span style="color: #f79646;">This expression is to be understood as meaning unity of purpose not
brevity of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These ten kings are
unified under the power of the Beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“With the beast” The beast here is the anti-Christ or
dictator of the revived Roman empire and these ten kings and nations will reign
for a short time in the dominion of the beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
13. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength
unto the beast. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“These have one mind.” This means they all have the
same goal, that is to rule the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Shall give their power and strength unto the beast”
refers to their dedication to the beast and displays their strong leadership.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Such unity of purpose will cause the ten kings to give
their power and strength unto the beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the resources and armies of these ten nations and their kings are at
the disposal of the Beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">They all blended into one international unit or one
world government.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">They use whatever means they desire to cause people to
bow down to the beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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14. ¶ These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are
with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“These shall make war with the Lamb” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">These</i> in this verse are the ten nation
federation or the revived Roman empire and the dictator.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The Beast attempted to proclaim himself king and exert
lordship over the nations of the world, but nothing can alter the fact that
Jesus Christ is Lord of lords, and King of kings.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Lamb” in this verse is Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The man of sin leads the kings and nations to war with
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And the Lamb shall overcome them.” This is the second
coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Lord of lords” speaks of His deity.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“King of kings” speaks of His humanity.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This is the stone of Daniel 2:45.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“They that are with him are called.” These are the Old
Testament saints. </span><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;"> </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b><span style="color: #f79646;">The
faithful and chosen on the Lord’s side anticipate a complete victor, and they
shall have it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Chosen” refers to the church age saints.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Faithful” refers to the Bride of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">When this happens, all believers will be there.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
15. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where
the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“The waters which thou sawest.” Waters refer to the
nations of people.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Peoples and multitudes refer to races.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Nations refers to geographical units.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Tongues refer to languages and dialects.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The religious system of ecclesiastical Babylon is
described as a harlot sitting on many waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is portrayed as committing spiritual fornication with the
inhabitants of the earth. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">We have already noted that in the book of Revelation
the figure of a woman symbolizes religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Jezebel represents the pagan idolatry of the past
(2:20), the sunclothed woman represents Israel (12:1), the bride of Christ
represents the true church (21:9), and here we have the great harlot
representing the false church.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The woman is arrayed in purple and scarlot, bedecked
with gold and precious stones and pearls (17:4). That the woman is sitting upon
seven mountains, which usually refers to the city of Rome, makes it difficult
to escape the conclusion that this woman refers to the Roman Catholic Church.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Even though the Roman Church may be the basis for
ecclesiastical Babylon, there are certainly Protestant churches, Moslem
temples, Jewish synagogues and other forms of religions involved here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">This false system of worship described as the great
harlot will include many groups as well as the mother church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the interdenominational movement at
its height.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we see one world
church, based in Rome (religious Babylon) and practicing a system of worship
which began back in ancient Babylon.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The one-world church movement is part of the program of
Anti-christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ecclesiastical Babylon symbolizes
apostate religion, religion without the power or presence of the Holy Spirit.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">This composite, apostate church will make political
alliances with the nations in order to gain power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that she rules over peoples, and
multitudes, and nations, and tongues is proof positive that this will indeed be
a politically minded interdenominational church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">But what will be the future of this ecclesiastical
Babylon?</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">What is to become of the one-world church movement and
this idolatrous church?</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
16. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these
shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her
flesh, and burn her with fire. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Ten horns” represents the political side of the
revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“These shall hate the whore.” The political side of the
empire makes a split from the religious side of the empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The point is the church and state cannot survive
together.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her
flesh, and burn her with fire.” This is like a civil war. The political side
will strip the religious side of her wealth, burn her so-called churches and
cathedrals with fire, and try to remove all her power. This will be terrible
and the political side will shed much blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">By comparing other scriptures, we may place this
annihilation of the one-world church midway through the seven years of the
Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the first half of
this period religious freedom is extended to all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the religions of the world, apart from
those who remain true to Christ, will gather in one great world church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The climax of this gathering is seen in the
pomp and ceremony of the harlot riding on the Beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">With the revival of the Roman Empire, the Beast no
longer needs the church to sustain his power. Thus he destroys the world church
and substitutes the worship of himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The false system of religion called Babylon, the harlot, will vanish,
and the Beast will be unchallenged as world leader and his False Prophet as
world religious leader.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Using the power he has over the ten horns, the league
of ten nations, Anti-christ will utterly destroy all forms of religion, even
the apostate Christianity known as ecclesiastical Babylon centered in the
church of Rome.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to
agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Notice whose will is being done. (It is God’s will.)</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">This verse says God has a plan in history and even
though man tries to rise up and altar that plan, he cannot.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">God will win the victory. The devil and all his forces
are losers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Religion will damn those who hold to it.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">All of this is in the will and plan of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has never been pleased with systems of
worship which do not give Him His rightful place, and counterfeit or divert the
honor that is due only to God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Therefore the interdenominational movement and those
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Moslem, and other groups so intimately
involved in it are doomed to be destroyed by the Antichrist after he has used
them to gain world rulership.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
18. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
reigneth over the kings of the earth.</div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;"></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Woman” here is the beast and his religious system.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“That great city.” This is the city of Rome, the great
seat of the false religions of the earth.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Just what will be the status of the Roman Catholic
Church at that time, I do not know.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Which reigneth over the kings of the earth”. This
verse reminds us of the power this anti-Christ has over the powers of this
world.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">THE REVELATION: A MOST BELOVED BOOK</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The book of Revelation is one of the most beloved books
of the Scriptures. In fact, it seems to have a life of its own, as increasing
numbers of seeking souls all over the world are intrigued by it, endeavor to
delve into it and seek to ascertain its meaning.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The book was given to John about 60 years after Jesus
ascended (Acts 1:9-11) up to Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This book has 22 chapters, 404 verses and about 12,000 words.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">REVELATION IS A BOOK OF SEVENS</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">There is such a thing as Bible arithmetic “gematria”,
and most of the numbers in the Scriptures have spiritual meanings. One of the
most significant numbers in the Scriptures is the number seven.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The number 7 is especially noticeable in Revelation.
Here we find it 44 times.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 time the “overcomers” are
mentioned.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">A book or scroll is said to have 7
seals.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 beatitudes and a sevenfold song
of praise.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 churches appear and a letter
addressed to each one.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We read of 7 candlesticks or
lampstands.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">There are 7 spirits and 7 stars.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">There is a sevenfold description
of Christ, 7 angels, 7 trumpets</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Sevenfold description of the
locusts which are disguised demons.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We note also 7 thunders, 7,000 men
slain, 7 heads and crowns, a 7-headed beast, a sevenfold description of the
144,000 with the Lord</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 angels and 7 plagues of wrath, 7
vials poured out upon the earth, 7 crowns of the dragon</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Babylon the world capital is built
upon seven mountains.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 dooms: Babylon, beast, false
prophet, kings, God and Magog, Satan and the unbelieving dead.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">7 new things:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new Heaven, new earth, new people, new
Jerusalem, new temple, new light and a new paradise.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Some of the most important words
in the Bible are found in Revelation 7 times and only 7 times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these are: blessed, church, cloud and
clouds, earthquakes, horses, light, patience, people, prophecy, quickly,
repent, Satan, sharp, sickle, tree, worthy, world, wine, etc.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The name “God” is found 99 times in the Revelation, 7
times in chapters 3, 7, 16, and 22.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">come</i>
is found 50 times in the book including 7 times in chapter 22.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angel</i>
is used 51 times in the book, including 7 times in chapter 8 and also in
chapter 16.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angels</i>
is found 23 times in the book. </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heaven</i>
is used 56 times in Revelation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The temple here is in Heaven with no activity. The
voice here is the voice of God the Father.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Go your ways – each angel had a different vial full of
judgment, but each angel was to go a different way.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">In ch. 5:2 and 7:2 we had the voice of angels, but here
we have the voice of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The seven plagues are very similar. Some of them are
like the plagues that were sent on Egypt in the time of Moses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first plague on Egypt was a plague
involving nature, when water was turned into blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here the second and third drinking cups turn
water into blood. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The second plague of Egypt was the plague of
frogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in the sixth drinking cup,
we have a plague like frogs.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The sixth plague in Egypt made sores break out on
people and here we have something similar to that in the first plague.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The seventh plague in Egypt brought hail and the
seventh plague here brings hail.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Darkness was one of the plagues of Egypt and here the
fifth drinking cup brings darkness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">All the vials are poured out on unbelievers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">All the plagues are given to manifest the power of a
perfect God.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the
seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This verse is the announcement which shows that the end
is near, that God delayed His judgment to the final limits, that the harvest is
ripe and the second coming of Christ is very near.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Vial – means drinking cup.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The voice here is the voice of God the Father.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The vials contain the wrath of God upon all Christ
rejecters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Apparently these seven judgments occur in rapid
succession. Immediately the first angel leaves the heavens and proceeds to dump
the wrath of God out of his bowl.</span></b></div>
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2. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of
the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">When the first bowl is emptied, a foul and painful sore
comes to those who have received the mark of the Beast. This judgment is an
evil or malignant sore, rotten and incurable, similar to the boils inflicted on
the Egyptians in Exodus 9:9-11. The extent of this affliction is limited to
those who have received the mark of the Beast or have bowed to his image. Those
few who remain true to God are exempt (Ex. 9:8-12).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This first cup is poured out and is a picture of divine
judgment on all those who were unbelievers and who followed the system of the
dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Notice the words noisome sores, which means offensive
to the smell and other senses.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Notice the words grievous sores, which means severe
pain, suffering, sorrow and serious.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Notice this plague is poured out on those who received
the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. (Those who followed his system).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">When Christ died on the cross, the figure used was the
drinking of a cup, and Christ asked His disciples if they were able to drink of
the cup and they said they were, but they didn’t understand what they were talking
about, for no one was able to drink of that cup except Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Christ did drink our cup on the cross and He did so for
the whole human race. The principle here in this verse is that these have
rejected the price Christ paid for their sins and now they are receiving the
cup of God’s wrath poured out upon them and they can’t bear it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">These vials are judgment against religion and are right
at the end of the seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The first cup represents the loss of health.</span></b></div>
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3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it
became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here we see the second angel pour out the second vial
or cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cup is poured out on the
sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Many people live by what comes out of the sea: shrimp,
fish, lobster, oysters, etc.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The sea became as blood and all life died.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">God is and has always been the provider of life in the
sea and man must acknowledge it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The analogy here is to the first of the ten plagues of
Egypt (Ex. 7:20-25), in which the Nile River turned to blood, killing all the
fish and making the water unfit to drink. The sea’s becoming as the blood of a
dead man is a vivid picture of a man wallowing in his own blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">One-third of the sea animals died under the second
trumpet (8:9). Now the destruction is total and marine bodies as well as men
will be wallowing in the blood of the sea.</span></b></div>
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4. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and
fountains of waters; and they became blood. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here the third angel pours out the third vial upon the
rivers and fountains of water and they become as blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">You can’t survive long without
water.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The second plague is against salt
water and the third is against fresh water.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The third bowl of God’s wrath is poured out upon the
rivers and fountains of waters, and they too become blood. Rivers of blood pour
from the ground, adding to the problem of obtaining fresh drinking water.</span></b></div>
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5. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous,
O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Here the angel adds a brief footnote indicating God is
righteous in causing the water and sources of water to become blood. This is
the unchanging law of divine retribution.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Throughout the Tribulation Period the forces of Satan
have been spilling the blood of the saints as if it were water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, because of these acts of infamy, they
are getting their fill of blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Third angel is the high ranking angel in charge of the
world’s water supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears this is
the guardian angel of water.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Every member of the human race must have water to
survive and this makes water of universal importance.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">After the flood in Noah’s day, God promised He would
never destroy the world with water again. The water table of the earth is
declining, but there will be enough water until the end of time.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Water is a gift of God and is an expression of God’s
grace.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">So here the plague is against water which is one of the
most absolute essentials for survival.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">AN EXPLANATION OF “THOU ART RIGHTEOUS”</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">When this angel says, “thou art
righteous,” he means that these judgements are an expression of God’s perfect
character. These judgments were perfect and not unfair in any way.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Mankind is prone to criticize God
for His judgments because man never does have all the facts and does not
understand the essence of God. Down through the ages man has been very critical
of the judgments of God, but criticism is quite easy for all those who do not
have all the facts.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Man minimizes sin and disobedience
to the plan of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Mankind fails to see sin as man’s
failure to meet the standard of God’s character.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The true character of sin can only
be understood by the cross and what it cost Christ to go to the cross and die
for our sins. God, as the judge, had to judge sin, and when Christ took our
sin, then the judgment of God fell on His own Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cost the Father everything to judge His
Son and what the Father did in judgment helps us realize just how significant
was the death of Christ on that cross. On the cross salvation was wrought out
for us without sacrificing the character of God. Every false doctrine insults
the character of God, yet His righteousness never changes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">For those who reject Christ and
accept religion instead of the essence of God judgment must express itself.
Here it expresses itself in these seven drinking cups. These drinking cup
judgments are designed to awaken the religious crowd and call them back to God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The love of God is rejected when
Christ is rejected. The alternative to the love of God is judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">As it is written, Jacob have I
loved, but Esau have I hated (Rom. 9:13). The difference is that one would be a
believer and the other would not. The word “thou art” is the verb <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eimi</i> and means eternal existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is righteousness now, but He has always
been righteous and He will always be righteous. He can’t be anything else for
it is His character.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Who then is at fault here in the
administration of these drinking cup judgments? Certainly not God. The whole
human race is at fault and especially the religious crowd.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Saul of Tarsus was hit by
catastrophe on the Damascus road and immediately he believed. This is the
quickest salvation we have on record. His was conversion by catastrophe. He
said “Lord” and used the same word as the dying thief used on the cross when he
called on Christ to save him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Christ said, “I am Jesus,” immediately Saul knew the whole plan of salvation.
In less than a second he was converted. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">What Stephen had said in his dying
testimony came into focus in the mind of Paul and he was converted in a second.
When this verse says of Christ “which art” it is referring to the eternal
existence of Christ and refers to the truth of His resurrected humanity.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">“And wast” refers back before He
became human and tells us He had always existed before He was born. Now He is
the God-man, the unique one of the universe. This angel realizes that Christ is
going to place angels below men. He recognizes the fairness of Jesus Christ and
that angels are going to be superseded by raised humanity. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c0504d;">“Because thou hast
judged” is a purpose clause and means it is God’s purpose to turn men to himself
by His judgments.</span></b></div>
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6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Again bear in mind that God is not now dealing in grace
but in judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">These bloodthirsty inhabitants of the earth are getting
just what they deserve, for they have consistently spilled the blood of the
saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">As the Tribulation draws to a close, God deals in harsh
justice.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Shed the blood of saints and prophets – refers to the
fact that millions have been killed in the name of religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Saints and prophets is the terminology of the Jewish
age and the Tribulation is a part of the Jewish age. That is why the language
is used.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">So He gives them blood to drink since they have shed so
much blood. He always makes the punishment fit the crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should teach us to keep our mouths shut
about other people’s sins and leave judgment to God. Don’t try to help God
discipline someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get a
double judgment when you judge others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You get judged for judging them.</span></b></div>
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7. And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God
Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This angel is the angel in charge of the golden altar
of incense.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">He is in charge of all prayers being made by the
tribulational saints while they are being tormented.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Read Romans 12:19, 20.</span></b></div>
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8. ¶ And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and
power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the fourth angel pouring out the fourth
cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the weather catastrophe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">All these things occur in a very short period of time
just before Christ comes back.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Pouring out this plague on the sun has a vital
connection with the weather.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The sun controls a great part of our weather patterns.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">So here is extreme heat and cold and this causes great
suffering on the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Men are scorched.</span></b></div>
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9. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the
name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give
him glory. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">When the temperature climbs into the 90’s today, we glibly
exclaim, “It’s a real scorcher” and turn on the air conditioner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, we know nothing of the scorching
heat that will one day torture the ungodly inhabitants of this earth. With the
shortages of energy due to rationing and the great judgments of God, there will
be no air conditioners or any other forms of relief from the scorching heat of
the sun which has been intensified by God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here men are scorched with heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not hot enough to kill them, but hot
enough to give them great physical pain.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Notice that through all this God never violates man’s
volition.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">They blaspheme the name of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, blasphemy is only possible where
truth is known and rejected.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Notice there is no brain damage here, they can still
think and speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will not change
their minds.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Repent here is the words <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meta noieo</i> and they mean to change our minds.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">To give him glory – a technical term meaning to believe
in Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">So in the first judgments we have:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Loss of health.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Loss of food.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Loss of water.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Weather disasters.</span></b></div>
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10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the
beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for
pain, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The fifth plague of judgment attacks the very throne of
the Beast. As in the fifth trumpet judgment, and the ninth plague of Egypt (Ex.
10:21-23), there is darkness over the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will be pitch black, so dark you can feel it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is only part of this bowl’s
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here is the fifth angel with the fifth vial.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This vial is poured out on the dictator of the revived
Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">He is not only the political dictator, but he is the
head of ecumenical religion in the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">His kingdom was full of darkness – means that darkness
will protect the Jews in Palestine like it was when Christ died on the cross
and caused their lives to be spared (Dan. 11).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">They gnawed their tongues in pain – a figure showing
the intense suffering.</span></b></div>
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11. And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and
their sores, and repented not of their deeds. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here we have the reaction of the people to the first
five judgments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a description of
their suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The sores inflicted upon the worshipers of the Beast
are still very painful, and the Beast will not be able to work his magic in
curing them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Terrible pain results in this intense darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So unbearable is the pain that men will gnaw
their tongues in severe agony.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Apparently the darkness aggravates the pain and the
results of judgment are compounded.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">They blamed God and repented not.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Repented not – means a stepped up negative volition
against God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Read Daniel 11:36-45.</span></b></div>
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12. ¶ And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great
river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings
of the east might be prepared. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here is the sixth angel pouring out the sixth vial.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Poured out on the Euphrates River and it dried up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A path for the kings of the east is prepared.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The Euphrates River is the natural boundary between
Palestine and the rest of the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Read Joshua 1:4; Genesis 15:18.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The Great Tribulation is fast coming to a climactic
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the emptying of the sixth bowl
the great Euphrates River is dried up. Flowing some 1,800 miles from the
mountains to the Persian Gulf, this river is too deep to ford and too long to
go around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus with the sixth bowl of God’s
wrath emptied, the Euphrates ceased to be a barrier and opens the way for the
kings of the East to march into the battle of Armageddon.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Verses 13-16 actually give parenthetic information
about this great battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is how
closely tied the sixth and seventh bowls of wrath are to the triumph of God’s
judgment at Armageddon.</span></b></div>
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13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the
mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of
the false prophet. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Dragon is Satan.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Beast is the dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">False prophet is dictator of Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Three unclean spirits like frogs – Here is the trinity
of the devil.</span></b></div>
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14. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">They will be miracle workers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">These dictators have an alliance and will be drawn into
Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The battle lines for the last battle are being
drawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things are shaping up in
Palestine.</span></b></div>
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15. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed
is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see
his shame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> </span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the second coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Blessed means happy.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Behold I come as a thief – a figure to emphasize that
the coming of Christ is sudden.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Watcheth, and keepeth his garments – a phrase that
means watch and be ready to fight.</span></b></div>
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16. And he gathered them together into a place called in the
Hebrew tongue Armageddon. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the last great conflict.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the Battle of Armageddon.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Into a place – This is the Valley of Megiddo in the
land of Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The devil and his forces cannot withstand the God of
glory.</span></b></div>
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17. ¶ And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air;
and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne,
saying, It is done. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">With the emptying of the seventh bowl comes the cry
from the heavenly throne, IT IS DONE. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the seventh and last angel to pour out his
vial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cup is poured out into the
air.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Each of the vials is against religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The words <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it is
done</i> means that each of the cups has been poured out.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Great pain and suffering is the results of these
judgments but no one is killed by them.</span></b></div>
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18. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and
there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so
mighty an earthquake, and so great. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Judgment is soon to be completed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this cry are the accompanying signs of
voices, thunders, lightning’s, a great earthquake, the likes of which man has
never seen before.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here they face natural disturbances.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">There have been many earthquakes in history, but none
as severe as this.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">These are terrible sights and sounds.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">This is the final warning before the end.</span></b></div>
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19. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the
cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God,
to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here we have disasters that occur in the cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great city is Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Jerusalem will be divided into three parts.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The capitols of great nations will fall.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Great Babylon in this verse refers to Rome.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The judgment of God will fall upon Rome because God
remembers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath – means
that God has finally judged ecumenical religion and the dictator of the revived
Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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20. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not
found. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Jerusalem is upended and divided into three parts,
Babylon is destroyed, islands of the sea disappear, mountains vanish, and hail
of the weight of a talent falls out of heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here we begin to see the results of God’s judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">There will be a great change in the topography of the
earth in the latter part of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">God will physically shake the whole world.</span></b></div>
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21. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every
stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Here we see the hailstones and each one weighing a
talent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men responded by blasphemy.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Today we talk about hail the size of a golf ball or
grapefruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when God’s righteous
judgment is poured out, the hail will weigh nearly 125 pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The destruction will be indescribable.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">We have seen God’s righteousness in judgment and in His
wrath. But what is man’s response?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Does he fall on his knees and repent for worshiping the
Beast? Not at all. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">In the final illustration of the hardness of man’s
heart, no one repents or gives glory to God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Instead they blasphemed the name of God (vs. 9) and
blasphemed the God of heaven, and repented not of their deeds (vs. 11).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Even in judgment, when the righteousness of God is
fully revealed through His wrath on sin, men and women will continue to harden
their hearts, blaspheme His holy name, and choose to worship sin and the Beast.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-24838077216789721832013-06-26T09:06:00.001-07:002013-06-26T09:06:49.966-07:00Revelation - Chapter 15<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 15</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Revelation 15 is simply an
introduction to chapter 16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we
study the seven last plagues and the judgements that come in the Tribulation
before the second coming of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
will see these last seven plagues administered upon the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vials or drinking cups are said to contain
the sins of the world. Christ actually drinks the sins of the world and then
our sins were judged.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The sins of the whole world were
poured out on Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a picture
of the seven vials or the seven drinking cups poured out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of the vials contains the wrath of God
and each is a judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Instead of Christ drinking the cups,
seven angels are going to pour out the contents of the cup on the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of these judgments poured out is for a
different group, but all of them are those who have rejected Christ.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven
angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of
God. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">I saw another sign in heaven – here
sign means wonder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the word
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Revelation 12:3 was the sign
of the dragon, the dragon was Satan and here we have another sign which is the
seven angels with seven vials of judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Great and marvellous means it was
breathtaking.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Seven angels speaks of God’s
perfection in judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Seven last plagues – these plagues
are judgments.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">For in them is filled up the wrath of
God – This speaks of God taking all He will take and His judgment must fall.
This is judgment on unbelievers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">This judgment is near the end of the
Tribulation just before the second coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">No believer will be judged here
(Romans 8:1).</span></b></div>
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2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and
them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over
his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having
the harps of God. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">And I saw –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John saw those who won the victory.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">A sea of glass mingled with fire. –
We saw this first back in 4:6 when the church was taken out of the world at the
rapture and was standing before God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">This is a figure meaning that the
winds of sin can touch you no more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
old sin nature is gone and you are given a resurrected body. This is the same
as described in 21:4.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Mingled with fire – This pictures the
pressure which came to the tribulational saints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These believers were pressured by the
economic system of the dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">They are described as victors. This
is the meaning of the present tense of the verb “had gotten the victory.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were victorious right down to the
core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t allow fire or death to
disturb them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">These are the martyred dead who did not yield to the
beast’s demand for blasphemy and thus are pictured as the triumphant.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The statue and numbers will be
everywhere during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Number of his name means the total
personality of the dictator, his religious system, political system, economic
system and military system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">“Almighty” emphasizes God’s
omnipotence.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">There seems to be four basic titles
to Bible songs</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Songs of Moses – they deal with the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Songs of Zion – they deal with the land.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Songs of Solomon – they deal with love.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Songs of David – they deal with the Lord.</span></b></div>
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3. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the
song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;
just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Someone may ask, “If God is so righteous, why does He
suddenly appear so vengeful? Why does He allow such tremendous wrath to pour
out on the earth?”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">The answer is simple. Today we view God as He deals in
mercy and grace. This is the dispensation of grace. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">However, God has promised judgment as payment for sin,
and He wouldn’t be just unless He fulfilled that promise.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">When the age of grace is passed, the age of judgment is
ushered in.</span></b></div>
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righteous judgment.</span></b></div>
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4. Who shall not fear thee, O 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. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Here we have a form of a question to
give emphasis to what is being said.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Who shall not fear thee, O Lord. –
Here fear means to stand in awe of or reverence.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Glorify thy name means perpetual
happiness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">For thou only art holy – refers to
the one way of salvation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">For all nations shall come and
worship before thee. – This is in the future and refers to the Millennium.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">For thy judgments are made manifest –
refers to the reality of His judgments and all are just, perfect and fair.</span></b></div>
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5. ¶ And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Verses 6-8 give clear indication that God is just in
delivering judgment on the earth. The picture of the heavenly temple containing
the ark of the covenant makes it evident that God is not dealing in grace but
according to divine law.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Here we see the source of the seven
last plagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice “the temple of the
tabernacle”. It means there will be a temple in Heaven like the tabernacle.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Of the testimony in heaven was
opened. – This temple is a testimony to Jesus Christ. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The earthly tabernacle was a picture
of Christ. It only had one entrance.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The brazen altar spoke of the cross.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The showbread spoke of Christ as the bread of life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The candlestick spoke of Christ as the light of the
world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The altar of incense spoke of prayers in Jesus’
name.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The altar spoke of Christ giving His life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The veil spoke of Christ as the bridge from earth to
Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Opened – Notice the tabernacle door
was opened in Heaven.</span></b></div>
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6. And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven
plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Here we see the administrators of
these seven last plagues.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Seven angels came out of the temple
having the seven plagues. – Seven speaks of perfection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Clothed in pure and white linen. – Clothed
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speaks of the belt they are wearing. This golden belt stands for the authority
of God or God’s official representatives.</span></b></div>
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7. And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven
golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">His agents of judgment are seven angels, clothed in
pure and white linen with golden belts. They originate in the heavenly temple,
and as they leave to bring judgment, each one receives a golden vial or bowl
filled to the brim with the wrath of God (vs. 6-7)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">One of the four beasts – means one of
the four living creatures.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Gave unto the seven angels – were
given the golden cups full of God’s judgments for the unbelievers on earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">The angels came wearing the golden
belts of God’s authority and the world will recognize they have the authority
from God.</span></b></div>
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way. He was not a college graduate, no degree, not approved by some religious
system, but his authority was from God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">When a man has authority from God to
preach or administer God’s plan, who has the right to condemn him?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">These angels are superior to the
demons who will oppose them in Ch. 16. These are high ranking angels. These are
four living creatures who are higher in rank than the seven angels.</span></b></div>
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8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God,
and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the
seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Throughout the entire span of the seven bowl judgments,
the heavenly throne room is filled with smoke from the glory and power of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this suggests the
sovereignty of God and His righteousness and justice in bringing judgment to
sinful men.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">And the temple – this temple is in
Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Was filled with smoke from the glory
of God, and from his power. – Something that looked like smoke that represented
God’s glory and power filled the temple in Heaven. “Glory of God” refers to His
perfect essence.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">And no man was able to enter into the
temple. – The temple of God was closed temporarily and there was no activity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">Till the seven plagues of the seven
angels were fulfilled – the activity in the temple ceased until the judgments
were poured out on the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">With the beginning of Chapter 16, the second important
feature of these chapters is noticed. This is God’s wrath.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-40300244300819024332013-06-03T18:35:00.001-07:002013-06-03T18:35:41.935-07:00Revelation Chapter 14<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Victory of
the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the midst of this dismal
revelation about the last days of the Tribulation, John is given another
parenthetic vision recorded in Chapter 14. As if to encourage him as he writes,
God allows John to see the Lamb, Christ Jesus, standing on Mount Zion with the
144,000. They are singing a new song before the throne, perhaps one they have
been taught by the 24 elders.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">You can almost imagine them singing:
“Redeemed how I love to proclaim it! Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
Redeemed through His infinite mercy, His child, and forever, I am.”</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and
with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written
in their foreheads. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a description of the 144,000
Jewish evangelical studied back in chapter 7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This group had maintained separation from the mark of the beast during
the Tribulation and during the terrible dictatorship of these two ruthless rulers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“…having his Father’s name written in
their foreheads.” – This speaks of their identity, they belong to God and
always will.</span></b></div>
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2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping
with their harps: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">And I heard a voice from heaven –
praise given these 144,000 evangelists.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Voice of many waters – the voice of
angels singing in heaven. It sounds like the sound of a waterfall.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Voice of a great thunder – sound of
authority and thunder speaks of the warning of the coming storm.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I heard the voice of harpers harping
with their harps describes a great stringed orchestra and they are accompanying
this choir.</span></b></div>
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3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and
before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but
the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rev. 5:9 Speaks of a new song which
no one else could learn. They could sing it because they maintained their
separation from religion during the Tribulation. Man that is not redeemed
cannot sing these words.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">No man could learn that song - They
learned this song by being separated and faithful to God during the
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">But the 144,000 which were redeemed
from the earth – were the only ones who had learned the song, and this is
because of their faithfulness.</span></b></div>
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4. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they
are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These
were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">What sort of life did the Jewish
evangelists live for seven years?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">They traveled under great danger and
lived very much like Saul of Tarsus. Their married relationship was toward God. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Marriage is a bona-fide institution,
but here in the Tribulation, it was set aside because of abnormal times.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth – This is an identification of who they are and the
reason for their being unmarried.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The 144,000 are called the
firstfruits because they were the firstfruits after the rapture of the church.</span></b></div>
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5. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without
fault before the throne of God. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This describes their message. This
means they stayed with the Word of God. They stayed in constant fellowship with
God.</span></b></div>
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6. ¶ And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The gospel to be preached is not the
good news of salvation but rather the good news that God is at last going to
deal with the world in absolute righteousness and rule the world in His divine
sovereignty.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">God looked on earth and saw two
dictators. He saw their ruthless and wicked rule. He saw things were drifting
further and further away.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Before Jesus comes back to finish
the job He started the first time, God is going to give the world one last
chance.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">God’s grace is always before any
judgment, God always gives man an opportunity to be saved, God is always fair.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“to every nation” – refers to
Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Kindred refers to racial groups.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Tongue refers to national units –
language groups.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">People refers to geographical units.</span></b></div>
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7. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him;
for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Speaking in a loud and clear voice.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">People are nearing eternity and they
must be awakened to Christ. Christ is about to return and unbelievers will be
cast off the earth. They must be awakened to the doom they face.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fear” is a bona-fide means of
bringing people to Christ. Fear of judgment is a bona-fide means of causing
people to come to Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">There is only one way to do this and
this is to accept Jesus Christ through faith on the basis of grace. Christ did
it all and He gets all the glory.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the hour of His judgment is
come” – means that it is about over and judgment is knocking at the door.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here Christ is again presented as
the creator (John 1:3, Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:10).</span></b></div>
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8. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of
the wrath of her fornication. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A second angel appears to announce
the fall of the great city Babylon (probably a reference to Rome). The
consequences of participating in the spiritual degradation of this religious
system are clearly outlined by this angel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Any nation that shares in the
spiritual corruption induced by Babylon will also share in her condemnation and
destruction.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the second angel of
judgment. The first angel brings a warning of judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">All religion is to be judged.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">We have the first mention of Babylon
in the Scriptures in Genesis 11. It is the first attempt to destroy nations and
make one great international organization. God disapproved, God took the one
race and one language and broke it up into many races and languages.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Babylon</i> means confusion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Babylon the Great represents
internationalism trying to destroy nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is ecumenical religion in the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion is the devil’s trump ace;
it is counterfeit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The devil has
counterfeit ministers, churches, gospel and spirituality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion is referred to as the spiritual
fornication of the great whore.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Babylon the Great represents all the
religion during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“She made all nations drink….”
Speaks of the devil leading people to receive his false religion system.</span></b></div>
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9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John sees a third angel which
predicts the doom of those who bow down and worship the beast.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The intensity of this destruction is
without mixture of mercy. The agents of destruction are fire and brimstone. Its
duration is continuous, for the angels which bring destruction on the
worshipers of the beast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have no rest day
or night.</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the 3<sup>rd</sup> angel.
Here is judgment against those who adhere to religion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The system was judged and here is
the judgment against those who adhere to they system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This beast is the dictator of the
revived Roman empire that we talked about in chapter 13. He is the political
leader of a confederation of ten nations.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is worship of a person and the
system he represents.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand” refers to one endorsing this anti-Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who receive his mark will be able to
buy food and property and will be able to engage in business and take part in
any of life’s activities.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">You will have to be “in the circle”
in order to get ahead during this time of ruthless dictatorship.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Behind all of this is a principle.
In this ten nation federation, there is the union of the church and state.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Bible is very clear on the
separation of church and state and there are no personal freedoms when the two
are joined together.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">No system should ever come along and
try to join a divine institution with a human institution.</span></b></div>
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10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which
is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in
the presence of the Lamb: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the judgment of the lake of
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God – is the figure. Later on, we will see the cup of the wrath of
God. Jesus spoke of “the cup” and asked the disciples if they were able to
drink of this cup. They said they were, but, they did not understand what Jesus
was talking about.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The principle in this verse is
“unless you let Jesus drink the cup for you, you will have to drink it
yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just remember, Christ drank
the cup during His first coming, accept that or drink it yourself at His second
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ is judgment for you or you
are in judgment alone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Poured out without mixture into the
cup of his indignation – speaks of the concentrated wrath of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">So the question is, who shall drink
the cup of God’s wrath, you or Christ?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">He shall be tormented with fire and
brimstone in the presence of the holy angels… - speaks of judgment of God and
those in whom’s presence you will be judged.</span></b></div>
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11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and
ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image,
and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice their punishment lasts
forever and ever. The Hebrew word is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sheol</i>
which means torment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fire is a place
called hades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell is everlasting and
those who reject Christ and die have no recourse.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rev. 20:13 tells us that at the end
of the Millennium hades will deliver up the dead. They will be given
resurrected bodies and cast into the lake of fire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">They have no rest day nor night –
describes the continuous punishment of the unbelievers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Who worship the beast and his image
– The who in this verse is unbelievers and the beast is the dictator of the
revived Roman empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This dictator is
an outstanding personality and a genius.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Dan 7, 9, 11 and Joel 2, 3 describe
this beast as a very attractive person.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The image – refers to the statue of
the beast that was placed in the temple in Jerusalem in the middle of the
Tribulation as described back in Revelation 13.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">And whosoever receiveth….refers to
an identification tag of some kind and is the mark of the beast’s economic and
political system.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">There is no restraint on the beast
at this time because the Holy Spirit, who restrains him, was removed at the
rapture (2 Thess. 2:7). Here the beast has full power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Worship the beast – means to worship
his personality.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Worship his image – means to worship
his economic and political system.</span></b></div>
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12. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep
the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse refers to those who
believe in Christ during this terrible Tribulation time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">No matter how great the pressure,
they continue to trust and have faith.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Patience – refers to the fact they
are under maximum pressure, but they stay true.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">They that keep the commandments –
speaks of those that guarded Bible truths and Bible doctrines.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the faith of Jesus – should read
“faith in Jesus”. This speaks of them being sold out to Jesus.</span></b></div>
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13. ¶ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write,
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those who die as martyrs at the
hands of the Beast are called blessed. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">henceforth</i>
indicates that this blessing particularly refers to those who will yet suffer
and die under the Beast. </span><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">A lot of believers are going to die in the Tribulation and
God will provide dying grace for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God will hear every cry and collect every tear.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Their works will follow them into
the presence of the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The word die here is active
participle and means they will not die suddenly, but will die from torture.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rest is used here for salvation,
eternal rest or rest of perfection with God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Salvation takes only one second and
then in all the rest of your life, nothing can be done to take this salvation
away from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot commit any sin
that will take away your salvation. For your sin is not greater than God’s
plan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">That they may rest from their
labours – a purpose clause and the purpose is no fear, no worry, no frustration
of any kind.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Their works do follow them – their
testimony will long be remembered.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Finally, in this parenthetic chapter
just before the most severe judgments of the seven bowls, John’s heart is
encouraged by getting just a glimpse of the battle of Armageddon, where the
great winepress of God’s wrath will pour forth tremendous judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God knows just when we need
encouragement. Having received the vision of the seven trumpets and about to
embark on the vision of the seven vials, the Apostle John is given
encouragement by God by showing him a glimpse of the end and the ultimate
victory of God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This same function the book of
Revelation performs for us. Bogged down in the trials and troubles of life, we
experience a great uplift and encouragement in reading the Revelation, for it
shows us that the victory is ultimately God’s. Perhaps this is the blessing
promised to everyone who reads or hears the words of this prophecy (1:3).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Vision of
the Harvest on Earth. (14:14-20).</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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14. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud
one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his
hand a sharp sickle. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is judgment of the fourth
angel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The one like unto the Son of man is
Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here the Lord is pictured with a
golden crown, the victor’s crown, and a sharp sickle or judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus is wearing His earned crown
and the right to judge from His unlimited atonement.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">A sharp sickle expresses judgment
the artist has not painted.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The great harvest of God is about to
begin. Two figures are used in verses 14-16 and the vine verses 17-19.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">They watched Him ascend on the Mount
of Olives (Acts 1:9-12), now He comes wearing the crown of authority and
carrying the sickle of judgement. He is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the triumphant Christ and the ruling Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Remember the one born in a stable at
Bethlehem, look at Him now, He is chief of the earth and power of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Remember the devil said to Him in
Matthew 4 to bow down to me and I will give you a crown, Jesus said, “No.” I
will earn my right to wear the crown.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Remember when Jesus came into
Jerusalem riding upon the back of a donkey and they said Hosanna to the King,
they didn’t want Him to go to the cross, but Jesus said, “No.” I will go to
Calvary and earn the right to wear the crown. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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15. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud
voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the
time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Temple – the one in
Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This angel was speaking to
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The ripe harvest is literally a
dried or withered harvest (Mt. 21:19-20; Mark 3:1, 3; John 15:6; Rev. 16:12).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In other words, the inhabitants of
the earth are withered, lifeless and fully ready for judgment. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;">The grapes of
the vine are also said to be ripe. This is the vine of the earth and stands in
contrast to Christ, the true vine (Ps. 80:8; John 15:1).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The picture here is that all the
false religion of man is fully ripe and ready because man in his own efforts,
apart from the life of God, has fully developed an apostate religious system.”
(Charles Caldwell Ryrie, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revelation,</i>
p. 92).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse speaks of the
fact that the time is right for the second coming of Christ and the judgment of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crying</i> really is shouting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The one on the cloud is Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Time is come for thee to
reap – means God’s time calendar is fulfilled.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The harvest of the earth is
ripe – means the unbelievers on earth continue to reject Christ and are
deserving of God’s judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
16. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the
earth; and the earth was reaped. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ is putting God’s
judgment into action.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Thrust speaks of God’s
power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sickle speaks of the manner of
His judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On earth speaks of the
place of this judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the earth was reaped –
speaks of God’s complete judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human
life being judged.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the second coming
of Christ in judgment. The details are in Revelation 19:11-21.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
17. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
he also having a sharp sickle. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice where this temple
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The sharp sickle speaks of
judgement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">These angels are those who
assist Christ in the Battle of Armageddon.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
18. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power
over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying,
Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth;
for her grapes are fully ripe. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse describes how it
is going to come about.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The altar is Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Shouting with a very clear
voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice this angel speaks to the
other angel mentioned in verse 17.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">These angels are assisting
Christ in the Battle of Armageddon.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saying, thrust in thy
sharp sickle” – means judgment has come.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Gather the clusters of the
vine of the earth speaks of the people of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Her grapes are fully
ripe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This carries the idea that they
have had every opportunity to be saved and they refused every opportunity.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
19. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and
gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the
wrath of God. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">A winepress in the days of
Christ was a vat dug in the ground where the grapes were placed and the people
would take their shoes off and trample the grapes until the juice was out of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The juice ran into another juice
vat.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Lord is using this
comparison to show how He will trample the people of this earth until the blood
of those people runs in the Valley of Megiddo to the bridle bits of the horses.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a picture of the
judgment of God at the last battle.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
20. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood
came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a
thousand and six hundred furlongs.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The judgment of
God on this vile system of worship is not hell but something that happens on
earth. It is apparently a reference to the battle of Armageddon (19:17-19).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When the great
winepress of God’s wrath is trodden outside the city of Jerusalem, the result
will be the blood coming out of the winepress.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The blood slain
coming out of this valley as the juice would come out of the ancient
winepress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #376092;"><span></span>This is an awesome picture of
the judgment of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So fierce is
God’s judgment that the blood of those who battle against him will run as deep
as the horse’s bridle for 1600 furlongs.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">On the average the
bridle of a horse is about 3 ½ feet from the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the top soil in the Valley of Megiddo
is about 25 feet deep and wet, apparently no vehicle could maneuver in this
valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very possible that horses
will be used.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Valley of
Megiddo has been the place of many battles, probably more battles fought in
this valley than any place in the whole world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it is so fitting that God would choose this ancient battlefield
for the last great battle of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“By the space of a
thousand and six hundred furlongs.” This is a distance about 180 miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just think, blood of the slain will flow in
this valley like a river.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The slaughter of the king of the north is told in Daniel 11:40-46.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The slaughter of the king of the west is told in Daniel 11:44.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The slaughter of the king of the east is told in Revelation 16:12.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #376092; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #376092; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The battle is also described in Isaiah 63:1-3.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-15295836418397250912013-05-28T13:40:00.001-07:002013-08-07T06:41:27.188-07:00Revelation - Chapter 13<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapter 13</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Rise of Antichrist. 13:1-10.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The career of Satan has been a long and infamous one. But
from the very moment he lifted his head in pride against God, his goal has
always been the same.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lucifer wants to be God. He was not happy with being a beautiful
angel. His jealousy of God turned ambition into rebellion.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He said, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
be like the most High” (Isa. 14:13-14).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since Satan’s ambition to be God is impossible, he attempts
the next best thing. Satan imitates God and by doing so deceives people into
believing he is God. This is what he did through the Pharaoh’s magicians. This
is what he is doing today in leading so many unsuspecting people into satanic
cults and the worship of demons.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But it is during the dark days of the Tribulation that
Satan will be most successful in imitating God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, during this period of judgment upon the earth Satan will
produce a counterfeit trinity.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This evil trinity will be composed of Satan, the Antichrist
and the False Prophet.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan is the opposite of God the Father and occupies His
position in the evil trinity. Revelation 12:9 reveals that Satan is a great
fiery monster, brilliant, formidable, a great dragon (Ezk 28:12).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He is that old serpent who introduced sin into the world
(Gen. 3:1). He is a deceiver, slanderer, accuser of the brethren. He is the
devil (Rev. 12:9). He is Satan, the adversary of God and His people (Zech.
3:1).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And by feigning the Trinity of the Most Hold God, Satan
deceives the whole world, being a liar right from the beginning and the father
of the lie (Jn. 8:44). Through deception, trickery and just plain lying, Satan
makes himself out to be God the Father.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
1. ¶ And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns
ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Revelation
13 the other two members of this false trinity are introduced. As Satan is the
false-Father, verse 1 depicts the rise of the false Son, the false Christ. This
beast is a man (who very well could be alive today), for he is expressly called
a man in verse 18 of this chapter and is treated as a man in other Scriptures
(Dan 7:8; 2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 19:19-20).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He is said to
arise out of the sea, an expression which signifies the Gentile nations.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This false
Christ or Antichrist is described as a king (17:10-11). However, the Beast is
more than a man, more than a king. He is also a kingdom. The seven heads and
ten horns with ten crowns speak of a kingdom. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The ten horns
are identified as ten kings in 17:12; yet they are united in one beast. In other
words, the Antichrist represents a confederation of ten kingdoms or countries. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since a similar
description is given in Daniel 7:7-8, this beast’s kingdom must be the revived
Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was built on seven hills, represented by the seven heads.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There is no
better way to signify an empire than with the symbol of its king (Dan. 7:7, 17,
23).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and
his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Further
confirmation that the Antichrist’s kingdom is the revival of the Roman Empire
is seen in verse 2. The description of the false Christ as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like unto a leapoard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his
mouth as the mouth of a lion</i> is very meaningful. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Daniel
chapter 2, and again in the vision of Daniel chapter 7, the prophet Daniel saw
four great successive world empires: the lion, referring to Babylon; the bear
referring to Medo-Persia; the leopard, referring to the Grecian Empire; and the
last great empire, which took the dominant elements and characteristics of the
first three and combined them in itself. The qualities of strength, brutality,
and swiftness were all present in the final empire, the Roman Empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So closely
identified are the ruler and his kingdom that verse 3 speaks of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one of his heads as it were wounded to
death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the
beast.</i></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The meaning
could be twofold. In order to deceive the world into believing that he is
Christ, the Antichrist may receive a deathblow. Since it is questionable
whether Satan can actually raise a person from the dead, the Antichrist
probably only pretends to be dead and then rises again, deceiving people into
believing that he is an authentic savior.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But the primary
meaning here is that of the kingdom, not the king. This verse signifies that
the Roman Empire, although apparently dead, will be revived in order to provide
the Antichrist with a base of operations, a kingdom, a throne, and great
authority.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
4. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who
is able to make war with him? </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">At this
eventful point in history, Satan will receive something he has always wanted. Through
his man, the Antichrist, whom he makes the ruler of the world, Satan will
receive worship and praise. Satan takes credit for the miraculous phenomena
which take place during the Tribulation. Unable to explain them, the people of
the earth believe Satan’s lie, given to the world through the Antichrist, and
fall down and worship them both.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They cry, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to
make war with him?</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><i> </i> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The unique
character of the Beast and his might make the people stare in awe. These same
individuals were confronted with the unique character of Jesus Chirst and His
might before the Rapture and yet they did not believe. Now they believe without
reservation in Satan and Antichrist.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Not everyone,
however, will worship the imposter Christ. Verse 8 indicates the saved of this
period will stand true to God the Father and God the Son even though it means
death for many of them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>THE BLASPHEMY OF
THE BEAST. 13:5-6.</u></b></div>
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5. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the Trinity
of God, Jesus Christ came to earth and spoke the words of God, revealing the
thoughts and mind of God. So too the second person of this evil trinity will be
the spokesman for Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Antichrist’s
message is not his own but rather that of Satan. Unlike the true Christ, who
spoke in praise of God the Father and provided the basis for peace with God by
shedding His own blood, the activities of the false Christ will be greatly
blasphemous, and he will engage in war.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to
blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice what
Antichrist will blaspheme. His main target is God but he also pours out
venomous blasphemy against the house of God and the children of God. We won’t
even be safe from slander when we get to heaven. However, these satanic
blasphemies against us can’t harm us, safe in the arms of Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<b><u>THE POWER OF THE
BEAST. 13:7-8. </u></b></div>
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<b><u><br /></u></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,
and nations. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan continues
to use Antichrist by giving him the power of civil authority <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to make war with the saints, and to overcome
them</i>. Those who stand true for the faith during the Great Tribulation will
have no civil liberties and will be viciously attacked by the Antichrist and
killed in the name of the empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">During this
period born-again believers will be persecuted and murdered much as they were
in the second century under the original Roman Empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">That Antichrist
is a world ruler is evident from the fact that his power will be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.</i></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Undoubtedly he
will be gathering power throughout the first half of the Tribulation but will
not receive world rulership until he breaks the covenant of peace with Israel
(Dan. 9:27). Then, acting as the tool of Satan, the Beast will wage all-out war
against Israel and the saints of God throughout the entire globe and will overcome
them (Dan. 7:25; 9:27; 12:10; Rev. 7:9-17).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the will of
the Father, many believers will perish as martyrs while others are preserved
alive in spite of all the blasphemy and war of the impostor Christ.</span></b></div>
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8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. </div>
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9. If any man have an ear, let him hear. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">That will be
the heyday of Satan. He will receive praise and worship. He will envision
himself as God. The second person of this evil trinity will speak forcefully,
for Satan and the majority of the world will fall in line against God and those
who represent Him on earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dream of
world conquest by the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman Empires will
now, for the first time, be realized completely under the reign of Satan and
Antichrist. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A counterfeit
millennium will be instituted. All of this is permitted by God in a final
display of Satan’s evil.</span></b></div>
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10. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity:
he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the
patience and the faith of the saints. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The picture is
dark indeed, but if we look a little farther down the road John writes…Read
Rev. 15:2.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God will permit
Satan to force his counterfeit trinity on this earth for a while, but He won’t
permit it forever. As always in history, God’s children are promised and
assured of ultimate victory.</span></b></div>
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<b><u>THE RISE OF THE
FALSE PROPHET. 13:11-18. </u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The last half
of Rev. 13 records John’s vision of the third member of the trinity of evil.
The dragon (Satan) is the antitheses of God the Father. The first beast, the
Beast out of the Sea (Antichrist), is the antitheses of God the Son. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now another
beast arises (False Prophet) and is the antithesis of God the Spirit. As the
heavenly Trinity is made up of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
this counterfeit, hellish trinity is made up of three persons: Satan,
Antichrist, and False Prophet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The appearance
of the second beast out of the earth is far less pretentious than the first.
Instead of seven heads and ten horns with ten crowns, this beast has only two
horns. There are a number of ways in which this impostor poses as the
counterpart of the Spirit of God.</span></b></div>
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11. ¶ And I beheld another beast coming up out of the
earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">First, note
that this beast appears on the scene <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like
a lamb.</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He is not a
lamb, but appears like a lamb. If he were a lamb, we would think him an
impostor of Jesus Christ. But since he appears like a lamb, he imitates the
Spirit of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">As the Holy
Spirit produces Christlikeness in us, this False Prophet will produce
Antichristlikeness in the lives of those who worship the Beast.</span></b></div>
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12. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast
before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the
first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Second, note
that he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exerciseth all the power of the
first beast before him.</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">You will recall
our Lord’s command, “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but
tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high”
(Lk 24:49).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">That promised
power came in the person of the Holy Spirit. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“But ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” Acts 1:8.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Whenever the
Spirit of God is mentioned in Scripture, He is always associated with power.
During the Great Tribulation the False Prophet imitates the Holy Spirit by
exerting the power of Antichrist.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Third, verse 12
continues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim of the second beast
is to promote of the second beast is to promote the worship of Antichrist. At
no time in his career does he promote himself.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is true
with the Holy Spirit. He causes men and women to worship Jesus Christ. He does
not attract attention to Himself, but always points to Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those who place
an overemphasis on the baptism and work of the Spirit of God defeat His own
purpose.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus Christ
came to give life; the Holy Spirit is come to teach, comfort, and point men to
Christ. Likewise, the False Prophet does not seek attention but seeks to divert
attention to the Antichrist.</span></b></div>
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13. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Fourth, we learn
from verse 13 that the second beast is associated with great wonders and fire.
Again and again the Holy Spirit is associated with fire. When the Spirit came
upon the church at Pentecost, “there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as
of fire, and it sat upon each of them” (Acts 2:2-3).</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse shows his
power and what he uses to deceive men. Demons can cause sickness, even death.
Demons can heal and speak in tongues. They can throw their voices as Satan did
in the Garden of Eden when the snake talked.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Snakes, healing and
demons have always been connected in some way. Aesuhapius is the god of healing
and also the god of snakes. The Egyptian word for demons and snakes is exactly
the same word. They have always been connected and tongue speaking is either
psychological or demon possession.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus never spoke in
an unknown tongue.</span></b></div>
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14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means
of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to
them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword, and did live. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse describes
how they are going to put that statue up in the temple of Jerusalem. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The beast here is
the dictator of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saying to them that
dwell…” speaks of the making of a statue of the dictator of the revived Roman
empire and placing it in the temple in Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which had the wound
by a sword” speaks of the fall of the old Roman empire in 476 when the Germans
came in and captured their emperor Romulus Augustus and caused the empire to
crumble. Notice the empire was not dead, just wounded.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And did live” –
speaks of the revival of the old Roman empire. The wound was healed.</span></b></div>
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15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The final way in
which the False Prophet imitates the Holy Spirit is found in verse 15. As Satan’s
religious leader during the Tribulation, the False Prophet will issue an
ecclesiastical edict commanding that an image of the Beast be made. This will
become the focal point of their false system of worship.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dictator of
Palestine had the power from Satan to cause the statue of the dictator of the
revived Roman empire to speak. He caused life to come into the statue.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those who do not bow
down and worship the statue will be killed.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the religion
of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion is man
trying to reach God in his own strength. Christianity is God reaching man.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those who don’t
worship the image will be killed, and only people who will not be deceived are
believers and they will be killed.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This statue will
speak and this frightens the people. The devil has always tried to use scare
tactics, he tries to make people think he is God.</span></b></div>
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16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads: </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we study the “mark
of the beast”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is religion at its
worst. Here is the loss of freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is what happens when church and state unite.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The mark of the
beast is in the right hand or on the forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It may be an invisible mark, similar to the stamp they use today to
enter many theme parks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mark is
invisible to the naked eye, but when placed under a certain type of light, it
becomes visible.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Also similar to
food, shoe, tire, and gas stamps used in America during World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like a ration card.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This shows how the
anti-Christ will control the people and he will control them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many believers will starve to death and that
is exactly what religion does. We have seen in India for years what religion
will do to people, worshiping the cow and monkey. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This mark will be
received by those who fall down and worship the statue.</span></b></div>
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17. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This means
starvation everywhere. Those who don’t receive the mark cannot buy or sell
food. No food business men unless they receive the mark.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Or the name of the
beast” – may be some type of visible card that must be carried.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Or the number of
his name” – the number of this dictator is 666. It is given in verse 18.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Six is short of
seven, short of God. Six can never be seven.</span></b></div>
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18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have the
number of the beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The mark is some
sort of identification card or stamp.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Where did this come
from? It was originally an identification card for a Roman soldier. After he
had completed his intense basic training, he received a brand on his hand. The
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mark</i> was used and placed on him,
and he would wear it the rest of his life. It was a mark of pride and denoted
great sacrifice. This was a graduation certificate which they proudly wore,
showing they had passed through basic training.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mark</i> came to mean any system of
identification.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the Tribulation,
the mark was used to show who was in the system and who was not. The mark
became some sort of I.D. card in order to have social survival. It was a ration
system.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Without the mark in the
Tribulation, you cannot buy food, engage in business, be elected to public
office or be accepted socially.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Those who do not possess
this mark of identification, will starve to death or be killed.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To receive the mark,
you must fall down and worship the beast in the temple of Jerusalem. </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil has always
wanted to be worshiped (Matt. 4:1-11).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">No one can have
shelter, own property, buy food or have any of the necessities of life without
receiving the mark of the beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There were three
ways to qualify:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Have the mark.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Have the name of the beast.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Have the number of the beast.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If you are not a Christian, let me encourage you to be saved today.
Don’t take a chance on living until tomorrow. Christ may come tonight, tomorrow
may begin the terrible days of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Just remember that the saved of our age will be with Christ during
the Tribulation period. The Tribulation period will be a terrible and ruthless
time in human history.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-89304632720050777452013-05-20T17:21:00.000-07:002013-05-20T17:21:16.343-07:00Revelation Chapter 12<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">War is an ugly word. None of us even likes to think of it,
for we have experienced too much of it. Yet war seems to be a fact of life
because sin is a fact of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter
12 describes the outbreak of war, past, present and future.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This war first takes place on earth (vs. 1-6), then in
heaven (vs. 7-12), and finally back on earth again (vs. 13-17).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Revelation chapters 12 and 13, we have the unholy
alliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is made up of Satan, the
beast out of the sea, who is the ruler of the revived Roman empire, and the
beast out of the land, who is the dictator of Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For a preliminary study of Satan, turn to Ezekial 28 and
Isaiah 14.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">EZEKIEL 28:11, 12 “Moreover the word of the Lord came unto
me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -22.5pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Son of man” is simply a title for the prophet. The phrase
“King of Tyrus” simply refers to a king who was possessed with Satan, and the
things that are said to this king are really said to Satan.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -22.5pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou sealest up the sum” means that Satan was created with
perfect proportions. It refers to beauty in terms of symmetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan was the most beautiful creation that
ever came from the hand of God.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -22.5pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Full of wisdom” means that Satan was a perfect genius.
Satan is the smartest creature God ever created.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -22.5pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">D.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Perfect in beauty” refers to the fact that Satan was the
most beautiful one God ever created. Satan is almost beyond human comprehension
in beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan was the most beautiful
of all the angels. (Satan is not as we usually picture him, dressed in red with
horns and a pitchfork in his hand.)</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">EZEKIEL 28:13 “Thou has been in Eden the garden of God;
every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This refers to a garden that existed long before the Garden
of Eden in Genesis 1. This is a description of the clothing of Satan. These are
the same stones as found in the breastplate of the high priest. They will be
found in the building of the New Jerusalem and are found here in Satan’s
headquarters.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Tabrets and … pipes” refer to the fact that Satan has the
most beautiful voice of all God’s creation. Satan was possibly the best public
speaker of all time and in his way, he persuaded one third of the angels to
side with him.</span></b></div>
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and I have set thee so: thou was upon the holy mountain of God; thou has walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan is called “The Messianic Cherub.” He was originally
the guardian angel of Jesus Christ. He had access to the throne room of God.
Christ personally appointed him to this office.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Walked up and down” means Satan had access to Heaven. He
lived in the presence of God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou wast perfect in all thy ways until.” The word until
explains that there came a time when the relationship was broken.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Iniquity was found in thee” explains Satan’s sin. The five
“I wills” of Satan are described in Isaiah 14.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So this is the first fall of Satan and describes his
negative volition. Please notice Satan was created perfect and fell.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">EZEKIEL 28:16 “By the multitude of thy merchandise they
have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I
will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee,
O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have the second and third falls of Satan outlined.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Multitude of thy merchandise” refers to the fact that
Satan had a plan for destroying man and the universe.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God”
refers to the second fall of Satan and it occurs in the middle of the
Tribulation. This is why the second half of Tribulation is called “The Great
Tribulation.” Revelation 12:7-9 describes this second fall of Satan.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">D.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will destroy thee” refers to the third fall of Satan,
and this comes at the end of time at the great judgement throne of God.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">EZEKIEL 28:17 “Thine heart was lifted up because of thy
beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast
thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In this verse, we are given an explanation of why the falls
occurred. Satan fell the first time because of pride and because of mental
attitude sins. This is a summary of that fall. This verse also explains that
angels and Satan were clothed with light.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">EZEKIEL 28:18 “Thou has defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude on thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the third fall of Satan. Millions of angels bought
Satan’s plan and fell with him. Revelation 20:10 describes this final act of
Satan being cast into the final hell.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Let us turn now to Isaiah 14.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">ISAIAH 14:12 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is describing the second fall of Satan. (Also in
Revelation 12:9-11.) Please notice, one thing Satan does is weaken the nations.
He does this by internationalism, socialism and communism. Satan is against
nations and he does his best to destroy them.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In verses 13 and 14, we have the five “I wills” of Satan
and notice that it is mental attitude sins that started all the trouble. Each
time Satan said, “I will” it was negative volition.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">ISAIAH 14:13, 14 “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will ascend into heaven” means to take over God’s
throne.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will exalt my throne above the stars of God” Stars of
God are angels and Satan was planning to take all angels away from God.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sit also upon the mount of the congregation” refers to
ruling the world.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds” refers to
ruling all mankind.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I will be like the most High” means that he will take
God’s place.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the description of the first fall of Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">ISAIAH 14:15 “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to
the sides of the pit.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the third fall of Satan. So in these verses in
Isaiah, we have a short explanation of Satan’s attempt to take over the
universe.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">THE THREE SOURCES OF EVIL</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The world. This refers to the mental attitude of the person
who has human viewpoint.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The flesh. This is the old sin nature.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil. This is the person called the devil.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan tries to exalt self and control God. He tries to
counterfeit God. Satan tries to get men to act independently of God. He is the
ruler of this world. He took it away from man.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of
this world be cast out” (John 12:31).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of
this world cometh, and hath nothing in me” (John 14:30).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged”
(John 16:11). He is the prince of the power of the air.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph 2:2). Satan is the god of
this age.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Cor. 4:4). Satan tries to disrupt
the dispensational pattern of God. He is the chief enemy of the Christian. He is
the first creature that ever rebelled against God. He rebelled and took
one-third of the angels with him.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,
and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born” (Rev.
12:4). He is a liar from the beginning.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). We have already
seen that he weakens the nations, he causes war and strife.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is
the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years” (Rev. 20:2).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison” (Rev. 20:7).</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the
four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle:
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea” (Rev. 20:8). He blinds the minds
of the lost. He indwells certain people, like Judas and the dictator of the
revived Roman empire. He takes the Word of God out of the minds of the
unbeliever so they will not believe.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Those by the way side are they that hear, then cometh the
devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe
and be saved” (Luke 8:12).</span></b></div>
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<span>1. ¶ And there
appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This chapter depicts the period of anti-Semitism, the worst
period of anti-Semitism the world had ever known. Chapter 12 has a Jewish
flavor to it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Anti-Semitism is satanic in nature. In Genesis 12:1-3,
there is a stern warning against anti-Semitism. So this principle has a very
definite bearing on the rise and fall of a nation.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We know that Assyria was destroyed because of
anti-Semitism.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The inquisition of Spain was organized to crush the Jews.
Because of this, Spain went down and England rose up, reaching her greatest
height under Queen Victoria.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look at Germany, Hitler killed the Jews and God caused a
wall to divide the country.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now notice how anti-Semitism is going to exist in the
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And there appeared” refers to the fact that this was
exactly the right moment in history for these things to happen.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“A great wonder” means a great sign or miracle.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“A woman clothed with the sun” the woman is Israel in the
Tribulation. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The imagery of this verse gives us a good clue to the
woman’s identity. First the figure of a woman is frequently used as a symbol of
religion.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jezebel represents paganism and idolatrous worship (2:20; 1
Kgs. 16:31).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The bride of Christ represents the true church (ch. 19).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Second, this woman is clothed with the sun. The moon is
under her feet. Her crown is made up of twelve stars. There is only one place
in the Bible where similar imagery is used. This is in the dream of Joseph
where the sun and moon and eleven stars did obeisance to him.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Both Joseph and his father, Jacob, recognized the meaning
of this dream (Gen 37:9-11). It referred to the nation Israel, as does the
woman here in chapter 12.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Clothed” is in the perfect tense and means she was clothed
in the past and has retained her clothing. The clothing to which this refers,
is the genes of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Remember these three men were all
born again. Israel, regardless of the satanic attempt to destroy her, will
always remain.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The sun” here refers to Jacob.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The moon” refers to Jacob’s wives, Rachel and Leah.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The twelve stars” refers to the twelve patriarchs, the
twelve sons of Jacob.</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. And she being with
child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“She” is a reference to the seed of the woman concept we
have in Genesis 3:15. But specifically this she refers to Israel. Israel has a
child and that child is Jesus, the Messiah.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This woman, Israel, is pictured as being with child,
crying, travailing in birth and being constantly in pain to be delivered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a perfect picture of the nation
Israel from the call of Abraham to the birth of Christ. She was constantly
expecting the birth of the Messiah, constantly in pain. The identification of
the woman with Israel fits all the facts.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Cried” refers to the pressure from Satan that has always
been on Christ and the Jewish nations.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” refers to
the virgin birth of Christ. Satan made many attacks, first to prevent the
virgin birth of Christ. Satan made many attacks, first to prevent the virgin
birth, then after the virgin birth was promised by God, Satan tried every way
to destroy Christ even nailing Him to a cross.</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. And there appeared
another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and
ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verses 3-4 tell us of another wonder or sign in heaven.
This time it is a great red dragon with seven heads, 10 horns, and 7 crowns
upon his heads.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This dragon has a tail which drew a 1/3 of the stars of
heaven with him, casting them to the earth. The dragon is the archenemy of the
woman and stands ready to devour her child as soon as it is born.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Appeared another wonder in heaven” means a sign like the
one in verse 1.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now we meet the great red dragon. The Greek word for dragon
is drakon and means to see clearly and to be smarter than anyone else. This
dragon is a super demon. He is a genius, this is Satan, and Satan is more
beautiful than anyone else and was able to deceive nations.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rahab is the Hebrew word for dragon, and it means exactly
the same as the Greek word drakon.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Red” is used here to describe rulership.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Seven heads” refers to the seven empires who have defeated
Israel in the past. They are, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia, Macedonia, the
Roman empire and the revived Roman empire of the Tribulation. We meet and study
them in detail in Revelation 17:8-13.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Ten horns” are the ten nations that make up the revived
Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The United States could be one of these nations: Daniel
2:41-45; 7:20-22.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">It does not take much effort to identify this dragon. This
monster is none other than Satan. The stars which he drew from heaven and cast
to the earth are the angels which fell with him when he attempted to take over
the throne of God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This open rebellion against God brought sin forth and
caused 1/3 of the angels to be cast out of God’s presence (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6).</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. And his tail drew
the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour
her child as soon as it was born. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The tail of the great red dragon represents Satan’s
intelligence in action and includes one-third of the angelic creation. They
were all thrown out because they believed as Satan believed.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Ready to be delivered” means that Satan kept an eye on
Christ every moment in His birth and afterwards. This is a very important part
of the Christmas story.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. And she brought
forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verse 5 reveals another personality. The woman is pictured
as bringing forth a male child.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“She brought forth a man child.” This refers to the first
advent of Christ, His virgin birth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here the identification is obvious. This male child is
Jesus Christ. Israel gave birth to the Messiah after travailing from the days
of Abraham. At our Lord’s birth the red dragon, Satan, had King Herod all ready
to devour the Christ child, but God providentially intervened (Mt. 2:13-18). </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The only person who is said to rule all nations with a rod
of iron is Jesus Christ (Ps. 2:8-9; Rev. 19:15). And, of course, the only
person ever caught up to God, to the throne of God, was our Lord (Lk. 24:51;
Acts 1:9-11). Hence, the male child of the woman Israel is Jesus Chist our
Lord, the Messiah of Israel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Was to rule all nations” Christ has not ruled all nations
yet, but He will.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Rod of iron” speaks of capital punishment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Her child was caught up unto God” speaks of the ascension
of Christ on the Mount of Olives in Acts 1:10-12.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">During Christ’s earthly life Satan did his best to war
against Him and devour his best to war against Him and devour Him. But time and
time again the war went badly for the red dragon. He was defeated at Bethlehem,
at Calvary, and finally at the Mount of Olives.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Between verses 5 and 6, the whole church age takes place.
The church age is not mentioned here.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. And the woman fled
into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should
feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verse 6 resumes the dealings of God with Israel and reveals
what will become of this nation during the last half of Daniel’s 70<sup>th</sup>
week, the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since Satan has been totally unsuccessful in destroying the
male child of the woman, he turns his attention to the woman herself. Satan’s
wrath is vented toward the nation Israel, especially during the final 3 years
of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Therefore, Israel is forced to flee into the wilderness
where God has prepared a place of shelter and safety for her. When Christ gave
His prophecy about the Great Tribulation, He warned, “Then let them which be in
Judea flee into the mountains” (Mt. 24:16).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is Israel’s flight in the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Israel fled into the wilderness (desert place) where God
had prepared a place for her.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Read Matthew 24:13-26.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This place is in the mountains of Edom, Moab and Ammon.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To be specific, it is Petra.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Read Isaiah 16:1-4. Here Sela means Petra.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The prophet Isaiah mentions the city of Sela in the
wilderness of Moab as a place to hide the outcasts. (Isa. 16:4). Sela is the
Hebrew form of the Greek name Petra, meaning “rock.” Located some 50 miles
south of the Dead Sea, the city of Petra was the capital of the ancient Edomite
Empire.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since it is situated in a fertile basin at an elevation of
3,800 feet above sea level and since it is entered only by a narrow, twisting
gorge, the walls of which rise a thousand feet higher, this spot seems to be
the perfect hideaway for Israel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. And there was war
in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels, </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verse 7 is a scene of war shifting from earth to
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of the consequences of the
statement and there was war in heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The lines of battle are drawn: Michael and his angels
versus the dragon and his angels.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Daniel 12:1 the archangel Michael is depicted as the
special guardian of Israel, and now he performs his task well.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Michael” signifies, “Who is like to God?” We may compare
this with the cry of the worldly in 13:4, “Who is like unto the beast?</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have warfare in Heaven - this conflict has always
been going on, but now it breaks out into an open war.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the results of casting Satan out of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan and his fallen angels have attended many celestial
sessions, but now in the midst of Tribulation, they are thrown out of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This warfare is between two angelic forces.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The war in heaven appears to rage on for an extended
period.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the second fall of Satan. The first fall is
recorded in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This warfare evidently is between the elect angels led by
Michael and the fallen angels led by Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Evidently, up to this time, God had not given Michael power
to strike Satan and handle him in conflict, but here, Michael is given that
power.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Another conflict between Michael and Satan is described in
Jude 9.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angels that make up the army of Michael are guardian
angels (Heb. 1:14).</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The angels that follow Satan are fallen angels.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. And prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And prevailed not” this is the results of the war in
Heaven, the dragon (Satan) and his fallen angels were defeated.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They were cast out of Heaven and never had access to Heaven
again.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the perfect tense and means it is done once and
stands forever.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These fallen angels had been in Heaven to accuse
Christians. They had a complete computer print-out on every Christian. He had
accused everyone, but God is very capable of handling His own children and
Satan can’t harm them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9. And the great
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Great dragon was cast out” means cast out of Heaven. This
is the second fall and still has one to go.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Old serpent” this refers back to the garden of Eden when
he seduced the woman.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Called the Devil” this is his Greek name and means
accuser, gossiper, busybody.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And Satan” Satan is the Hebrew name and means slanderer
and deceiver.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">He is called both the devil and Satan. The latter is the
older name. It transliterates a Hebrew word which means “adversary.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">When used of angels it did not initially have derogatory
associations, and it was used, for example, of the “angel of the Lord” who
stood in Balaam’s way (Num 22:22). </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">But the term came to be used of that spirit that accuses
men before God. He accused Job (Job 1:6), and Joshua the High Priest (Zech.
3:1).</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The title “accuser” became attached to him in an exclusive
sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Devil means “slanderer”. It is
not a large step from “accuser” to “slanderer” and therefore Satan is not
ingrequently referred to as “the devil”.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which deceiveth the whole world.” This describes his
actions.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He was cast out” the word cast out is ballow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this word we get our word ball. This
means the devil was thrown out like you would throw a ball.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil is thrown out of Heaven and is confined to the
earth which is his domain. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">No more does Satan have access to God to accuse the
brethren, as he did in the case of Job (Job 1).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The time of this event is the middle of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. And I heard a
loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John hears a loud voice of jubilation. This is the angelic
announcement of the victory.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now is the word used to announce this event in its proper
sequence - Now refers to the last half of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This time frame will bring the second advent of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Is come salvation” refers to the second coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And strength” refers to inherent power in Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And the kingdom of our God” refers to the Millennium.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The power of hist Christ” refers to the power of Christ in
the Millennium, Christ is the power and authority.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The accuser of our brethren is cast down” means that Satan
is defeated in the angelic conflict and means he is once and for all defeated.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Accused them day and night before God” means that the
devil never sleeps. He is on the job 24 hours a day.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11. And they overcame
him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they
loved not their lives unto the death. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the fulfillment of the victory over Satan.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan is a very difficult individual, but born again souls
always triumph over him.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And they overcame.” Overcomers are believers.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“By the blood” means redemption. This does not mean literal
blood, but the thing His blood represents.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Of the Lamb” refers to Jesus Christ. Only two writers of
the New Testament refer to Christ as the Lamb, John and Peter.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">His blood speaks of His death on the cross. Christ took our
sins, judged them, paid for them and they are covered in His blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Overcoming Satan by the blood of the Lamb simply means that
our victory is in the cross.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The blood of Jesus Christ not only cleanses us from sin, it
defeats Satan in the process, as it will do for these Tribulation saints.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“By the word of their testimony” speaks of the preaching of
the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“They loved not their lives unto death” speaks of living by
faith and trusting Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12. ¶ Therefore
rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath,
because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now that Satan has been cast out of heaven, he can place
his full-time effort into intensifying his activity on the earth. A solemn woe
is pronounced upon the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil is
come down and is possessed with great wrath.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them” speaks of
rejoicing in Heaven. The rejoicing is by the elect angels who stayed in Heaven.
They rejoice because these witnesses on earth were completely committed to
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea” speaks
of the worst time in human history, the last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the devil is come down unto you” means the devil is on
the earth in his full power.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Having great wrath” refers to the power of the anti-Christ
and Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He knoweth that he hath but a short time” speaks of the
last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil is aware that he has only a short time.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil will use every trick in his sack. He will be in
his full power. This will be a terrible time of trouble.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13. And when the
dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
forth the man child. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beginning with verse 13, the war with Satan returns to
earth. Thwarted in his last attempt on earth to destroy Jesus Christ, the male
child of the woman, and defeated in the heavens, Satan now turns his attention
to the woman as mentioned in verse 6.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verses 13-17 could be called the last great Jewish
persecution.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The anti-Semitism of Satan is the most intense ever, for
Israel is symbolic of the worship of God, which Satan hates.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dragon speaks of Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Cast unto the earth” speaks of being cast out of Heaven to
the earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He persecuted the woman which brought forth the man
child.” The woman here is Israel and means the devil realizes that the end for
him is very near, so he intensifies his persecution against Israel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. And to the woman
were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness,
into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,
from the face of the serpent. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The woman refers to Israel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Given two wings of a great eagle.” This speaks of Israel
being given guardian angels to help them in their travel, to guide them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fly into the wilderness” refers to Israel’s flight to
Petra (Isa. 16:1,2; Dan. 11:41).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Into her place” means God had provided for them. There God
will nourish them 3 ½ years. The devil wanted to destroy Israel, but God will
care for them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Nourished for a time, and times and half a time” means 3 ½
years. Time is a year, times is two years and half a time is six months.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. And the serpent
cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her
to be carried away of the flood. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Serpent speaks of Satan.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cast out of his
mouth water as a flood after the woman” speaks of the vast army Satan will mass
against Israel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Water as a flood” refers to armies.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“That he might cause her to be carried away of the flood”
speaks of the description of the great battle which will take place, called the
Battle of Armageddon. We will study this battle in detail in chapters 13 and
17.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16. And the earth
helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood
which the dragon cast out of his mouth. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">As Israel rapidly flees to the wilderness, Satan causes a
great flood to go forth in an attempt to destroy her. But in the providence of
God, even the earth aids the woman, and the great flood is swallowed up by the
earth.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dragon is now exceedingly wroth with Israel and takes
his anger out on those who do not flee to the wilderness.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jews who turn to Christ will be the special target of
Satan’s wrath as he unleashes an attack on God’s chosen people which is
unparalleled in history.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Earth helped the
woman” refers to how God caused nature to help Israel, unusual natural
disasters.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Swallowed up the flood” speaks of how God will devour the
devil’s army (flood).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jerusalem will become a fresh water harbor, a seaport city.
(See Ezekiel 47:5-12.)</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God cuts off Satan and protects His own people.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17. And the dragon
was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
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Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 11</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Chapter
11 continues the parenthetical information concerning the time of the seven
trumpets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When the 7<sup>th</sup> trumpet is
sounded, the Lord Jesus is coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
chapter 11, we will study the two witnesses.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the
angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
them that worship therein. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have the setting of the two
witnesses. A reed like unto a rod – this is a
surveyor’s instrument shaped like a rod. </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">The
rod is a reed of the common type grown in the Jordan Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is light weight, probably ten or twelve
feet long, and ideal for a measuring reed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John is told to measure the temple, the altar and even the worshipers. This
is the temple which will be rebuilt in Jerusalem; the same temple in which the
Man of Sin will demand to be worshiped and overthrow Jewish worship (2 Thess.
2:4). This temple will be built by
unbelievers in the first part of the Tribulation. This temple will be sponsored by the
false prophet, who is a Jew and dictator of Palestine along with the beast, who
is dictator of the revived Roman empire. The
measuring is an act of claiming or staking out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is symbolic of God’s possession of the temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that even the worshipers are
measured indicates that God is beginning again to deal with the nation
Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is Daniel’s 70<sup>th</sup>
week (Dan. 9:27).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is in this temple, in the middle
of the Tribulation, a golden statue of the dictator of the revived Roman Empire
will be placed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the abomination of
desolation (Matt. 24:15; Dan. 9:27, 11:31, 12:11).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There are 2 dictators involved in this worship
during the Tribulation. One is a Gentile who is dictator of the revived Roman
empire, and the other a Jew who is dictator of Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Gentile dictator will be head of the ecumenical
religious movement and ruler of the revived Roman empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In Revelation 11:1-4, we have the two witnesses of
Christ and in Rev. 13, we will study the two witnesses of the devil.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The altar in verse 1 speaks of the
death of Christ on the cross, and this is meaningless to the two evil
dictators. They ignore Christ completely. Them that worship – refers to the
unbelieving Jews, who constantly worship the fake dictator during the
Tribulation. They are apostate Jews.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The believing Jews fled to the
mountains. The believing Jews during the last half of the Tribulation are told
to stand their ground and fight.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Matt. 24 gives exact instructions
for these Jews during the Tribulation period.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">During the first half of the
Tribulation, they are to run to the mountains (Isa. 16). But during the last
half, they are told to stand and fight. They are converts of the two witnesses.</span></b></div>
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2. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and
measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they
tread under foot forty and two months. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But the court – there are courtyards
around the temple. He was not to measure the Gentile
court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
angel specifically instructs John not to measure the court of the temple, for
it is outside the Holy Place and given to the nations who shall tread it under
foot 42 months. Read Ezekiel 42:20. The profane
place in this verse may be the present Mosque that is there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dictator will run Jerusalem 42
months.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">42 months is 3 ½ years. The two witnesses (Moses &
Elijah) will preach for 3 ½ years minus two weeks, and during that time, they
will be killed and will be resurrected. Here
we are told that the Gentiles will tread the outer court of the city underfoot
for three and one half years after the covenant of peace with Israel is broken.
(Dan. 9:27)</span></b></div>
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3. ¶ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">At
this time chronologically, the Lord’s power or authority will be given to 2
witnesses. During the first half of the Tribulation, God’s spokesmen are the
144,000 sealed servants of Israel. However, after these servants finish their
ministry and flee to the mountains (12:6), God does not leave this earth
without a messenger of the gospel. Two powerful preachers are raised up at the
middle of the Tribulation Period and prophesy 1,260 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the ministry of these two preachers
which incites the wrath of the Antichrist. The 2 witnesses will be preaching
almost 3 ½ years – 42 months – 1,260 days minus two weeks. They will preach every day. These
witnesses are clothed in sackcloth and are said to be the two olive trees, and
the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth (vs. 4). Clothed in sackcloth – black
goatskin – this is the badge of the prophet. We are dealing with the Jews here,
but millions of Gentiles will be saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The battle is between religion and
the truth of Christ.</span></b></div>
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4. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks
standing before the God of the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Two olive trees – old covenant –
represents the testimony of Israel – the oil of the olives represents the Holy
Spirit. The
figure of olive trees is brought over from Zech. 4:3, 14 and simply means that
they are anointed ones. Two candlesticks – new covenant –
represents the testimony of New Testament. The wick burning of the candlestick
represents the Holy Spirit. The
figure of the two candlesticks or lampstands refers to the witnesses’ character
as the bearers of God’s light in the dark days of judgment. Moses and Elijah understood the
working of the Holy Spirit better than any two men that ever lived.</span></b></div>
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5. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their
mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in
this manner be killed. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have their protection and
provisions. </span><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Their ministry for the Lord is
outstanding.If – is a first class condition and
means many will try to hurt them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
a fact, a true situation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion will try to kill them
because of their emotions. The word for will here is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thelo </i>and means the will that comes from
emotions. Remember it was religion that killed
Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But God is going to keep these two witnesses
alive until they have finished their work.</span></b></div>
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6. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days
of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to
smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This shows the power God gives these
two witnesses.</span><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> They will have power (1) to
kill their enemies with fire; (2) to withhold the rain; (3) to turn the waters
to blood; and (4) to bring plagues upon the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses and Elijah are these two
witnesses. In the days of their flesh, it was
Elijah to whom God gave power to shut up the heavens so that it didn’t rain. It was Moses to whom God gave the
power to turn the Nile River into pure blood and cause the plagues of Egypt.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">HOW
WE CAN IDENTIFY THESE TWO WITNESSES</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Many say one was Enoch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flood would start when 120 years of
Noah’s preaching was concluded. Methuselah died and Enoch went up. So people
guess it was Enoch and they say Elijah was the other. The problem with Enoch is
that he was a Gentile, and Jesus was a Jew and a Jew would have two Jewish
heralds. So we can eliminate Enoch.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the Jewish age, the Jews refused to give the
gospel. In the Tribulation, Jews will refuse to give the gospel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus revealed the names of these two witnesses in
Matthew 16:28-17:3. On the Mount of Transfiguration, the two heralds are there,
Moses and Elijah.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The real problem is John the Baptist. In Malachi
4:4-6, we have a prediction of the coming of John the Baptist. John is the
herald of the first advent, and Moses and Elijah are the heralds of the second
advent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If Christ had been accepted in the first advent,
there would have been only one herald. But we have two heralds at the second
coming to give emphasis to the importance of the second advent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Therefore, we conclude Moses and Elijah are the two
heralds of the second advent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look at the Scripture. In Luke 1:16, 17, we are
told John the Baptist will have the same spirit as Elijah. In John 1:21, John
is not Elijah and he said so. If Jesus had been accepted in His first advent,
Elijah would have been herald of the first advent rather than John the Baptist.
In Matthew 17:10-13, we have Scripture that tells us John took the place of
Elijah in the first advent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We have definite identification of the two
witnesses: </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">a. Acts 3:21, 22
– Moses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">b. Matthew
17:11 – Elijah.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Many believe the two witnesses will
be Israel and the church, and they lay in the streets of Jerusalem. Others believe the two witnesses
will be the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, but how would you kill the Holy Spirit
and the Word, and lay in the streets of Jerusalem.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Some think John the Baptist will be
one of the two witnesses, but John was the herald of the first advent of
Christ. In Revelation 11:1, 2, we have the
setting for the work of the two witnesses. We saw the restoration of the Jewish
temple in the Tribulation. The temple was so distorted, that no truth could
come out of that temple, so it was necessary for God to send Moses and Elijah
to do their work. The phrase in verse 1 “measure the temple of God, and the
altar” spoke of salvation, which had been rejected by most of the Jews in
Tribulation. The temple speaks of Jesus Christ. “Them that worship” refers to
the unbelieving Jews. The temple was built in the first 3 ½ years of the
Tribulation and in the middle of the 7 year Tribulation the anti-Christ put up
his statue in the temple and demands the world to worship him. Matthew 24:15
speaks of this as well as does Daniel 9:27.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So here, we find the two witnesses
bringing their message in the worst of times. Satan will use his ace trump
which is religion against these men. The two dictators agree to put the statue
up in the temple, the Gentile dictator of the revived Roman empire and the
Jewish dictator of Palestine. The dictator of Palestine aligns with the power
of the west which is the revived Roman empire against the powers of the north,
which is the former Soviet Union, the powers of the south, which are the Arab
block countries, the powers of the east, which are the oriental countries. The
Palestine dictator makes this alignment with the west by using the riches of
Israel including the wealth of the Dead Sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In verse 2 of chapter 11, the court
of the Gentiles is to be omitted. A great struggle develops over Judaism,
legalism and Christianity. Also, it may be omitted because of the Dome of the
Rock (Ezek. 42:20). Chapter 11 tells of the intense struggles. Zechariah 12 and
14 tells the story of how converts of Moses and Elijah stand their ground and
fight in Jerusalem. In verse 3 of chapter 11 the ministry of Moses and Elijah
are described. Their dress is sackcloth, the prophets’ badge. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Moses represents the Law and Elijah
represents the prophets. The reason these two witnesses are not names is
because the men are not important, the important thing is their message.</span></b></div>
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7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall
overcome them, and kill them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">At
last the ministry of these two great prophets will come to an abrupt and brutal
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they have finished their
ministry, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war
against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">“Ascendeth out of the bottomless
pit” – This anti-Christ arose from the pit of the people and speaks of his
hellish actions. “Make war” – against the witnesses
of Christ. To overcome them and kill them. Notice
that absolutely nothing happens to these two witnesses until they have finished
their testimony. They are invincible up to that point. Nothing can thwart the
purposes of God. But,
as in the case of many other great prophets of God, when their ministry is
finished, God permits their enemy to overcome them.</span></b></div>
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8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Two witnesses are killed and lay in
the streets. As
if the murder of the two witnesses isn’t enough for this godless beast, he also
allows their dead bodies to lie in the street of that great city, Jerusalem,
here spiritually characterized by Sodom and Egypt. Sodom stands for moral
corruption; Egypt for the spiritual darkness of the world. You
can imagine the hatred that would allow these two bodies to lie in the street
until the stench is unbearable.</span></b></div>
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9. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their
dead bodies to be put in graves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Tells us here that millions and
millions will see their bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
dead men will evidently get world wide television coverage. Spirit left their bodies, but the
bodies are not permitted to be buried.</span></b></div>
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10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them,
and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets
tormented them that dwelt on the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These could be called the devil’s
people. So
great is the antagonism toward their preaching of repentance that the whole
earth will be jubilant at the news of the death of the two witnesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time a prophet of God preaches to
people about their sins there is a certain amount of resentment on the sinners’
part. But
just imagine, the death of these two invokes rejoicing throughout the earth to
such an extent that a holiday is proclaimed, and they that dwell on the earth
will actually send gifts to one another in rejoicing over the prophets’ deaths. So here we see the reaction of
religion to the two of the greatest believers who ever lived.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“These two prophets tormented them”
– means that they were tormented mentally and physically.</span></b></div>
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11. And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon
them which saw them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
forces of Satan will not have long to glory in their deaths; however, for in 3
½ days God will raise to life these two witnesses and shall call them to come
up to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The will ascend to heaven in
a cloud as their enemies behold them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
is another great victory for God. Fear fell on the unbeliever, but
please notice fear did not bring them to faith in Christ.</span></b></div>
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12. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies
beheld them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is the ascension of the two
witnesses to Heaven. God gave them a promotion. Come up hither – means they were
raised into Heaven. Their enemies beheld – Religion and
the world watched as these men went to Heaven but they didn’t believe.</span></b></div>
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13. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the
tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Within the hour, Jesus hits
Jerusalem with judgment. So
great is the impact of this resurrection that in the same hour, a great
earthquake destroys a 1/10 of the city of Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7,000
men are swallowed up as those who remain give glory to the God of heaven out of
fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus the second woe dramatically
comes to a conclusion. Those that were left were afraid and
recognized and gave glory to God, but did not believe.</span></b></div>
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14. ¶ The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh
quickly. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The second woe is the 6<sup>th</sup>
trumpet and the aftermath of the work of the two witnesses. The worst is yet to come.</span></b></div>
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15. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices
in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our
Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
resumes a narrative of future events with the dynamic announcement that Christ
shall reign forever and ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the beginning of the end, and even though some additional events must take
place before the kingdom is established, nevertheless the announcement is made,
for victory is in the air. This will be the fulfillment of many Old Testament
prophecies (e.g., Ps 2:2; Isa 9:6-7; Dan 2:44). This is the 2<sup>nd</sup> coming of
Christ to David’s throne. The 7<sup>th</sup> angel sounded the
7<sup>th</sup> trumpet. God keeps His word. Great voices in heaven – this is the
voice of God’s redeemed. Kingdoms of this world of which now
the devil is the god of. Matt. 4:1-11, the god of this world
made Christ a bonafide offer. A shortcut – a crown without a cross. To have a kingdom, you must have a
king. Christ in this verse will take the
world’s kingdoms.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;">Points on the kingdom</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The kingdom is promised (2 Sam. 17:8-15)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The kingdom was prophesied (Isa 66:11; 2; 65; 35).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The kingdom was presented. The true king was born
(Luke 2).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He presented His credentials and was not received.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">King was rejected and after a few years, He went
back to Heaven. He left the church in His place.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The kingdom was proclaimed. Moses and Elijah
proclaimed His kingdom (Rev. 10; 11).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The kingdom is perfected. The King of kings comes
and sets up His kingdom (Rev. 11:15).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Remember, God will keep His word –
His covenant with the Jews.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Abrahamic Covenant</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Davidic Covenant</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Jews will gather back to their
homeland (Zech. 8:23). Christ will come back in person to
rule from David’s throne. Christ will rule a thousand years. Why will we have the thousand year
reign? There will be no evil, no religion, nature change, but God will show
that perfect environment is not the solution to man’s problems.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">TWELVE THINGS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE
WHEN CHRIST COMES</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When Christ comes and His feet stands on the Mount
of Olives, religion will be the first to go. It will be gone forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be great spirituality on earth. Now we
have false spirituality, emotions.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The land will be restored – land will be
regenerated – we will visit Jerusalem and we will walk arm and arm with the
Jews.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">War will be over, we won’t need them anymore.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be universal prosperity (Psalm 72; Isa.
65). Perfect production – desert will bloom – the land will give its total
production.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be universal knowledge of God. Everyone
will know God (Isa. 11:9).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be perfect government. We don’t have it
now. All the government programs will not bring perfection, but Christ will.
Everyone will be dealt with perfectly.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be a radical change in nature (Isa. 65).
The lion and lamb shall eat together.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There will be perfect justice prevailing in the
earth (Isa. 11:3, 4). Righteousness will cover the earth as water covers the
sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan will be in a pit.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Life will be extended – many will live 1,000 years
(Isa. 65). The cure for cancer, heart trouble will be in the millennial reign.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Church age saints will rule with Christ during the Millennium.</span></b></div>
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16. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on
their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The 24 elders represent God’s
resurrected, immortalized, raptured, transfigured saints in Heaven. Sat before God on their lesser
thrones. Fell on their faces only place in
the Bible we find this clause, never before, but at the announcement of the
coming of Christ, they fell upon their faces and did reverence to God.</span></b></div>
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17. Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art,
and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and
hast reigned. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is what they said. They gave
thanks to God. Which art this is a present active
participle and means you have always been the Son of God. You are not the
coming one, you are the one already here. Wast means you were the Son of God
in the past. You took on human flesh and continued to be the Son of God and now
you are still the Son of God. Art to come. – means Christ has
fulfilled His promise of coming again. Taken to thee thy great power, and
hast reigned – means that Christ is now in His rightful place and is the true
King.</span></b></div>
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18. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the
time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear
thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Between verses 17 and 18, 1,000
years past. This is speaking of the Great White
Throne Judgement. Thy servants, the prophets means
Moses and all the prophets. And to the saints – means the
Tribulation saints.</span></b></div>
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19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was
seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and
voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">In
the midst of the elders’ praise, John sees the temple of God as the heavens
open, and in the temple is the ark of His covenant. Lightnings, voices, thunder,
an earthquake, and great hail are seen as well. This is the temple in Heaven. The
earthly temple in Jerusalem was a symbol of the heavenly temple. This
event just precedes the final outpouring of judgment and, as has been noted,
the judgments are gaining in severity. Since
the temple in Jerusalem has been defiled by the beast, it is not surprising to
see a heavenly temple from which God rules in holiness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Ark of the covenant – And they
commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord
your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from
your place, and go aft it (Josh. 3:3). The priest was to go to the middle
of the Jordan River and wait till all passed over. This was a token that the
Lord was with them. The ark of the covenant represents the presence of God. The ark of the covenant in Heaven
suggests that the worship of God is directed toward a new center. Under the old dispensation, the ark
of the covenant was a witness to the principle of true worship. The ark in Heaven contained within
it those facts and truths which contained the covenant ties woven between God
and His people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The ark in Heaven is the pledge of
eternal salvation and victory to all of God’s people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The ark of the covenant contained:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Broken law.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Aaron’s rod that budded.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Pot of manna.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There were lightnings – this is
symbolic of God’s power and presence.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">The
presence of the ark of the covenant indicates that the judgements about to take
place are based on the law, and God always keeps His covenants. As
God is faithful to us who will be raptured before this period of tribulation,
so too He will be faithful to those who trust in Him during this hour of trial.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
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Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-28223187470081064002013-04-09T12:20:00.000-07:002013-04-09T12:20:06.687-07:00Revelation Chapter 10<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 10</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">We
come now to a parenthesis between the 6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup>
trumpet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the 7<sup>th</sup> trumpet
sounds, this will be the second advent of Jesus Christ, and the beginning of
the millennial reign.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">We
have the two heralds of the second advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The mighty angel of chapter 10 and the two witnesses, Moses and Elijah.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
7<sup>th</sup> trumpet is the second advent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">A
king is always preceded by heralds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the first advent, Christ had heralds when He came to Bethlehem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was preceded in His first advent by a
multitude of angels and one human herald, John the Baptist.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">In
the second advent, He will have as heralds, one angel and two human beings.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
first herald is in chapter 10, and the two human heralds are in chapter
11:1-14.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven,
clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it
were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">In
the first verse John is permitted to see still another mighty angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The physical appearance of this angel is
significant.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">The
angel originates in heaven, and because he is clothed with a cloud, has a
rainbow upon his head and a face like the sun and feet like pillars of fire,
many have thought this angel to be Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is an unlikely identification, however.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“I
saw another mighty angel” – an angel of the same kind.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Mighty”
– means he is operating in the power of God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Come
down from heaven” – means God sent the angel.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Clothed
with a cloud” – In Psalm 104:3, clouds are called the Lord’s chariots.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Rainbow…upon
his head” – means God always keeps His word. God is always true to His word and
the rainbow takes us back to Genesis 9:12-17 when God promised never to destroy
the world again by water.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
sun refers to His brightness.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Pillars
of fire” speaks of judgment.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
2. And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his
right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
book is the same one talked about in chapter 6. It was a sealed book, but here
in chapter 10, it is an open book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
book contains the title deed to the earth.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Because
of the work on the cross, Christ has purchased the earth. When He returns, He
will bring along the title deed showing His rightful ownership of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">So
at the beginning of the Millennium, all unbelievers are taken off the earth and
the Millennium begins with only believers.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Open”
is a perfect, passive participle and means the book is open and it will stay
open.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">“Right
foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth.” This shows the angel
claiming the earth and the sea for Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
3. And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when
he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Crying
with the voice of a roaring lion, the angel stands upon the sea and upon the
earth showing his authority in all the earth.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
is the proclamation of the heralds as he claims the earth for Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">It
is like a lion roaring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lion of the
tribe of Judah.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
voice is clear, loud and with authority.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
announcement is to be heard world-wide.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Seven
thunders utter their voices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seven
speaks of perfection and there are seven angels.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">In
John 12:29 thunder is called the voice of angels.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">In
Psalm 29:3, 4 thunder is called the voice of the Son of God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
4. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those
things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">John
was about to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John must have known
what it was, but we don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God stopped
him.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Everything
that God revealed to John, was not written down.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
5. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the
earth lifted up his hand to heaven, </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">One
foot on the land speaks of total possession of the land.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">One
foot on the sea speaks of total possession of the sea.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Lifted
hand toward Heaven speaks of the Lord having total possession of all.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
6. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that
therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should
be time no longer: </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">His
authority, however, is apparently not his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He swears by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and
the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that herein are, and
the sea, and the things which are therein (vs. 6).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">In
swearing by the Creator, Jesus Christ, this angel shows that he has come in our
Lord’s authority but is not the Lord Himself.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">No
one is to swear, but God can because there is no higher power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the announcement of the second advent
of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“That there should be time no longer” refers
to the end of the Jewish age in Revelation 11:15-19</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">When
the seventh angel shall sound his trumpet, then the mystery of God will begin
to be known, and this sun-faced angel is anxious that there be no delay (time
in verse 6) before it is sounded.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">The
sounding of the 7<sup>th</sup> trumpet marks the commencement of the end of the
age, and all that was revealed by God through His Old Testament prophets and
all the mysteries of the kingdom of Christ will be known.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
is the second advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mystery of God
is the end of the Jewish age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 7<sup>th</sup>
trumpet is the 2<sup>nd</sup> coming of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
8. ¶ And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me
again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the
angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">In
the hand of this angel is a little, previously opened scroll.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">It
is not the seven-sealed scroll but a much smaller book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John is commanded to seal up those things
which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not (vs. 4).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Here
John takes the open book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is
the title deed to the earth. </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
angelic herald is holding the book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
9. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the
little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy
belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">At
this point John is commanded to take the little book and eat it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The command to eat the scroll is reminiscent
of the similar experiences of Ezekiel (Ezk 2:9-10; 3:1-4) and Jeremiah (Jer.
15:16-18). </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">This
is a symbolic way of saying that John is to devour its contents, become
thoroughly familiar with it, assimilate it, digest its meaning.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">The
message of the book will be bittersweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John is delighted with a new revelation but is disturbed with the nature
of that revelation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rejoices in the
final glory that will be his Lord’s, but grieves that so much more judgment
must precede the final glory.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">John
takes the book from the angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
told to eat the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He becomes the 3<sup>rd</sup>
one to receive a command to eat a book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">It
is a picture of persecution and faith. </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Persecution
makes the belly bitter.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Faith
makes the mouth sweet as honey.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Taking
the book speaks of action.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Eating
the book means learning Bible doctrine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Five
points of this command to eat:</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eat</i>
is an aorist, active, imperfect.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The believer cannot serve the Lord apart from learning
the Bible doctrine. We must know if we are to serve.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">By eating the book, John makes the Word a part of his
ministry.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">John takes the book from the angel standing up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it had been Jesus giving him the book,
John would have fallen at His feet.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Eating the book means taking in doctrine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Bitter
in the stomach. This speaks of the bitterness of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Sweet
as honey speaks of the fact there never has been anything too great for God’s
grace.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
plan of God is greater than the world of Satan.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">We
can have peace in the midst of trouble.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Sweetness
means that God can provide in the midst of troubles.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
10. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate
it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my
belly was bitter. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">John
ate the book.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">At
first it was sweet, but turned into great pain in his stomach.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
speaks of the terrible judgment of God on the world during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
11. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.</div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">This
means this prophesy is for the whole earth.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">The
whole earth is warned of the terrible coming judgment.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Chapter
11 continues with the parenthesis between the sixth and seventh trumpet.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00b050;">Remember,
Jesus is coming at the seventh trumpet.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 09</span></u></b></div>
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In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth
and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that
were to follow; the fifth trumpet (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/revelation/9-1-12.html">v. 1-12</a>),
the sixth (<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/revelation/9-13.html">v. 13</a>,
etc.). </div>
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1. ¶ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from
heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">With the blowing of the fifth
trumpet we see the reason for the eagle’s saying, Woe, woe, woe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">This trumpet entails the first
of these three woes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The word (Gr <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pipto</i>) translated “fall” should read
“fallen” (Greek perfect, active participle, accusative, masculine singular).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Thus, John did not see the star
as it fell, but saw an already fallen star. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The fact that this star is given
the key to the bottomless pit must mean it is a being and not an inanimate
heavenly body.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Bible frequently uses “star”
as a symbol of an angel (1:20).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Who is this star?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the angel over the bottomless pit whose
name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (9:11).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Both of these names mean
“destroyer.” This angel is the king over those of the bottomless pit, a fallen
star of supreme authority.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is Lucifer, the son of the
morning (morning star), who was cast out of heaven to the ground for the pride
in his heart (Isa 14:12-15).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil is going to have
three falls.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Once in eternity
past (Isa. 14:14)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here in the middle
of the Tribulation (Rev. 9:1)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">At the end of the
age, his final fall (Rev. 19:20)</span></b></div>
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2. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out
of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">When Satan opens the pit, smoke
arises out of it like the smoke of a great furnace and the sun is darkened by
the black, smoky air.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Out of the smoke come locusts
which have been given the power of scorpions.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Bottomless pit” – place of
departed spirits.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Smoke out of the pit refers
to vast numbers.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Much of the heavens will be
darkened.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
3. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and
unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Locusts came out of the pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are fallen angels.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Power of destruction was
given to them.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">They are not actually
scorpions, but angels.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Scorpions sting, but do not
kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will torture with pain.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass
of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men
which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Given the title “locusts”
because they perform a similar function as these marauding pests, those loosed
out of the bottomless pit by their leader, Satan, are actually demons.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here are some restrictions
placed on them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">They are not to hurt
agriculture.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">They are not to persecute
believers.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
5. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but
that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment
of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">They gravely torment those who
do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">They can torture, but not
kill.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">It was like when a scorpion
stings a man.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is all painful, but
not fatal.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The number 5 represents
grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were only permitted to
torment five months.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
6. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find
it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">These tormented ones are driven
to sorceries, witchcraft, fornication, murders, thefts, and other results of
pagan idolatry and demon worship and demon possession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here is the perfect final
fulfillment of 1 Timothy 4:1-3, which predicts the outbreak of demonic worship
in the time of the end.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Purpose of the fallen
angels is to torture, but not kill.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">People will try to die, but
cannot.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Those days” are the days
of judgement.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
7. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared
unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their
faces were as the faces of men. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is a description of
the locusts.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Like unto horses prepared
unto battle” means they had mobility like horses.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Crowns on their heads like
gold means they had great power and authority.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Not a literal crown, crowns
represent power.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Faces of men” means the
fallen angels look like men.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The physical appearance of these
locusts is extremely gross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
like horses prepared for battle, having crowns on their heads, with faces like
men and hair like women, but teeth like a lion (vs. 7-8).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hair of women” means they
were beautiful.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Teeth of lions speaks of
their ability to attack, and of their fierce power.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
9. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron;
and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses
running to battle. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">They will wear breastplates of
iron and the sound of their wings will be like the sound of chariots rushing
into battle (vs. 9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Breastplates of iron.”
This type of armor was worn by the Romans and was the most effective ever used.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wings was the sound of many
horses running. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b><span style="color: #604a7b;">This speaks of the force of power they had.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a picture of the
Roman warrior.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
10. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Their tails will be like
scorpions’ tails with the power to sting severely and torment those they do
sting five months (vs. 10).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we see the torture.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">They won’t kill, but make
people want to die.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Five months tells how long
this torture will take place.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Five is the number of
grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is only by God’s grace it
stops in five months and does not last longer.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
11. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the
bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek
tongue hath his name Apollyon. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“King over them.” – This is
the devil.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Abaddon is the Hebrew name
for Satan and means destruction.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Apollyon is the Greek name
for Satan and means deceiver.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The devil is the leader.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">He will indwell the
dictator of the revived Roman empire (Rev. 11:7, 8).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan was created by the
Lord and for the Lord, however, Satan rebelled against God and purposed to rise
above God (Ezek. 28:17; Isa. 14:13, 14).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Names Given to Satan</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan – means adversary (Zech. 3:1)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Devil – means slanderer
(Rev. 12:9)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lucifer – means the
shining one (Isa. 14:12)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Abaddon – means destroyer
(Rev. 9:11)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Apollyon – means destroyer
(Rev. 9:11)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beelzebub – means prince
of demons (Matt. 12:27)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Belial – means lawless
(2 Cor. 6:15)</span></b></div>
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12. One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">One woe is past but two are yet
to come, even more severe than the first.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The fallen angel released
is the first woe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">There are two more woes. –
Two trumpet judgments.</span></b></div>
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13. ¶ And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar which is before God, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sixth angel” one of the
seven leading angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sounded” the sixth trumpet
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Four horns” speak of power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Golden altar is where the
prayers are received from the martyrs and answered.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">This judgment is to punish
those in the Tribulation who killed these believing martyrs.</span></b></div>
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14. Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the
four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Euphrates River was
considered to be the eastern extremity of the Roman Empire and the dividing
line between East and West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Thus, the four loosened angels
lead an army arising out of the east.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The four wicked angels cannot
move but at the command of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the sixth trumpet
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Loose the four angels”
four super angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Bound in the great river
Euphrates.” Many believe this is where the man of sin will arise from.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Cities on the river
Euphrates, Ur and Babylon.</span></b></div>
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15. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an
hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Four angels are loosed with
power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we find one third of
all men killed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">He pinpointed the time down
to the hour.</span></b></div>
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16. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred
thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">When they are loosed and given
permission to move, however, the army of horsemen they lead numbers
200,000,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an almost
inconceivable number.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">At the peak strength during
World War II the United States had only 12,400,000 soldiers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">But when we consider the hordes
of the East, we can believe that an army of 200 million horsemen could easily
be reached today.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">God not only pinpointed the
time, but he gave us the number of this vast army. 200 million strong.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Some think this military is
coming from the Orient across the Euphrates River to invade Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rev. 16:1, 2 says the
Euphrates River will dry up.</span></b></div>
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17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat
on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the
heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued
fire and smoke and brimstone. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Horses…and them that sat
on them,” breastplates speaks of war.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Heads of lions” speaks of
fierce, rapid speed and force of this vast army.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The people die from burning
and suffocation.</span></b></div>
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18. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Speaks of how they were
killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1/3 of all men killed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">This horrible army destroys 1/3
of the population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under the fourth seal
judgment (6:8), ¼ of the earth had been slain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now 1/3 is slain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that
these two judgments alone, not to mention the multitudes who have died because
of famine, poisoned water, etc., have reduced the population of the earth by ½
since the beginning of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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19. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for
their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse tells of their
strength. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Speaks of their torture. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Tells by what means they
brought death.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Whether this mighty army, with
its horses having heads like lions, tails like serpents, and fire, smoke, and
brimstone issuing out of their mouths, should be considered all human or all
demon (equipped with modern weapons of war) is really not important.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">What is important is the world’s
reaction to the deadly judgment of the sixth trumpet.</span></b></div>
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20. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues
yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which
neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Speaks of the wickedness of
the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we see the reaction of
the invasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man will not repent.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Men hold on to human gods.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">1/3 of men killed, yet they
would not repent.</span></b></div>
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21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a description of
the horror, death, trial and trouble of Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Man hardened their hearts
just as Pharaoh did.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">In spite of the awful judgment
inflicted on the world by this invading army, those who survive are still
unrepentant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such is typical of hardened
human hearts.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">They still live in sin and
debauchery, they still worship demons and idols, they still murder, practice
drug abuse, fornicate, and steal.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Without the redeeming power of
God in a person’s life there is no difference between these unfortunate
inhabitants and inhabitants of our planet today.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The heart is still deceitful and
desperately wicked (Jer 17:9).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Whether living in Old Testament
times, New Testament times, the 20<sup>th</sup> century, or the Tribulation,
all men everywhere need to repent and receive the blood of Jesus Christ as an
atonement for their sins.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Without it there is no hope.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">With the
beginning of Chapter 10 comes another parenthetical section providing
additional information about the events of the Tribulation Period.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">This
parenthesis, like that of chapter 7, does not move the narrative forward but
simply adds detail to the events of this time of judgment.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="trail" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 08</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The book of Revelation is a sermon
preached on a Sunday in A.D. 96 on the Isle of Patmos to one man, John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a short sermon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes a while to read and it probably took
a while for Christ to deliver it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Revelation Ch 1
– Introduction<br />
Revelation Ch 2 & 3 – The history of the church age<br />
Revelation Ch 4 & 5 – The church in Heaven<br />
Revelation Ch 6 – 19 – The story of the Tribulation<br />
Revelation Ch 20 – The Millennium<br />
Revelation Ch 20 – 22 – The eternal kingdom</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is not an obscure book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a part of the Bible and God means for
us to understand it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation is the
unveiling of Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chapter 6 gave us a summary of the
Tribulation and Chapter 7 gave us the story of evangelism in the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Now chapter 8 begins the story of
the three judgments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There are three series of judgments
in chapters 6 through 19.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The seven seals, a summary of the
Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, comes the seven
trumpets, and this is the Tribulation judgments from the standpoint of the
Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Next, we move to the seven vials and
this is the Tribulation judgments from the standpoint of the Jews.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">While the church is in Heaven, just
following the rapture as the church is being prepared as the bride of Christ, we
have the most terrible period in world history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following this seven year period of horror and slaughter, will come the
second advent of Christ and His thousand year reign.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Revelation 8 brings us to another
crisis event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="color: #244061;"><span></span></span><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here He opens
the seventh seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Six seals have been opened
previously and judgment has poured forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now the last of the seals is opened and is followed by an amazing
response.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">There is immediately an ominous hush
throughout heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Silence in heaven – means these
judgments are so terrible they will make people hold their breath.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Heaven was shocked, but remember
they do not occur until the people have the opportunity to be saved. (Silence
is reverence for God’s plan)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Read Zechariah 2:13 “Be silent, O
all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Moments before the whole company of
angels, living creatures and elders was engaged in tumultuous praise of the one
sitting on the throne and of the Lamb of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Now, suddenly, there is silence so
intense you can feel it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The angels were speechless for 30
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could not talk.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">They may have been silenced to hear
the prayers of saints in verse 4.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The final seal has been torn away
from the title deed to the universe and the calamities about to be witnessed
are so awful that the company of heaven is speechless.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is the calm before the storm
and lasts a full thirty minutes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">If the coming judgment is so intense
that the angels silently gasp in horror, how much more should me be alarmed at
this terrible judgment and rush to be cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them
were given seven trumpets.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And I saw – This is John looking</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">As the vision continues, John is
shown seven angels who stand before God and receive seven trumpets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are special angels, for they are called
the seven angels, a distinct group for a distinct purpose.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven angels – perfect number and
perfect judgments of God – means seven select angels that are going to blow the
trumpets</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God uses angels sometimes to bring
about His judgments</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God used angels at the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">They are marked by special power,
dignity, and service (Heb. 1:7, 14).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Stood” – is in the perfect tense
and means they have been standing there for a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means they have been instructed about the
judgments and they stand ready to serve.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The trumpets are instruments of
proclamation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sounding of the
trumpet is always followed by an outstanding announcement or event (Ex. 19:16;
20:18; Jer 4:5; 1 Cor 15:51-52; 1 Thess 4:16)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven Points
Regarding the Seven Trumpets</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">A trumpet is a judgment which takes place in the
Tribulation to judge the Gentiles</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These judgments are directed toward unbelieving
Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In this chapter (8), only four trumpets are given.
The remaining three are given in chapter 10.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These four trumpets are directed against nature,
while in chapter 10, the last three trumpet judgments are directed against
mankind.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the first four trumpets, we have seven verses to
describe them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last three, we
have 50 verses to describe them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
last three are the most important.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The trumpet judgments are held up until the 144,000
Jewish evangelists are sealed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
only six seals in Revelation 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are seven in all, but only six in chapter 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The seventh seal is the beginning of the seven trumpets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the principle of grace before
judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All have opportunity to be
saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now in chapter 8, we move into
the seventh seal and this seventh seal contains the seven judgments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is judgment against the Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The seventh trumpet is the second advent of the
Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the trumpets take us
all the way down to the second advent of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, you have a three reel film here:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chapter 6. A general summary of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chapter 8. Here we begin the judgment of the
Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Last, we move to the vials and this is the history
judgment for the Jews.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 3-6, we have an answer to
the prayers of the believers who are martyred during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Matthew 24, Jesus warned the Jews
to run to the mountains of Edom, Moab and Ammon and stay there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">That was during the first half of
the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Now during the last half of the
Tribulation, they are warned to stand their ground and fight.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Zechariah 14 describes this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they follow instructions, then everything
will turn out right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #984806;"><span> </span>The Gentiles resist
and many are tortured and killed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">When religion takes over, then the most
terrible things you can imagine take place.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jesus condemned religion as the
worst enemy man has to face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion is
going to take over in the Tribulation and persecute these Gentiles, and while
they are dying they are going to do something.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Under terrible persecution, they are
going to put the whole thing in the Lord’s hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The principle is this, put it all in the
Lord’s hands for He says “Vengeance is mine, I will repay sayeth the Lord”
(Romans 12:19).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">They are going to pray and leave
vengeance in the hands of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
can harm a believer without getting discipline from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Judging others is a sin and it leads
to sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of your judgment falling
on them, it turns back and falls on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And this leads to self-induced misery.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Christian way of life is
designed for a relaxed, happy life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
live your life as unto the Lord and let other people do the same.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There is always some spiritual bully
around who has failed miserably and he will try to live your life for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Break away from this kind of person just as
fast as you can.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Live by doctrine and let each person
live his own life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our story here,
these believers are relaxed and they turn everything over to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These believers are not afraid and those who
die glorify God in their death.</span></b></div>
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3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden
censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with
the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Before the trumpets can be sounded,
another angel appears, standing before the altar with a gold censer and much
incense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This angel with the golden shovel in
his hand represents answered prayer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Another – refers to the fact that he
is the same kind of angel as we saw in the seven trumpets. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The eighth angel pops up and he has
a golden shovel in his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stands
in front of an exact replica of the temple.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This reproduction is in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see the golden altar of incense and the
censer with burning coals.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This golden altar is the message
center of prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So everything in both
the tabernacle and the temple was to teach the Jews about Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The brazen altar spoke of the cross
and here the sacrifices were offered.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">On the golden altar, they placed
incense and this was a picture of their prayers that rose up to the throne of
God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is outlined in Exodus 30:1-10
and Exodus 37:25-28.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The altar was made of Acacia wood,
which stood for the humanity of Christ, and it was overlaid with gold, which
represented the deity of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">It is impossible for deity and
eternal life to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was impossible
for Jesus to die in His deity, and this is why it was necessary for Him to
become a human being.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The sins of the world were poured
out on Christ on the cross and He died spiritually and then He died physically.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">So Jesus is different from all
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is unique.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This sweet-smelling incense rising
up to God is a picture of the prayers of these dying Gentiles in the
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These are tribulation saints,
believers who were martyred in the Tribulation, and we will meet them again in
Revelation 13 and 17.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Some of the prayers they offered
were anticipated prophetically in Psalm 13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here are some of the actual prayers of believers in the Tribulation
dealing with this situation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Psalm 44:22 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Psalm 54:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Psalm
79:5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Psalm 143:12</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This verse refers to the prayers of
dying Gentile believers in the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their prayers are answered with the judgments of these seven trumpets.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These trumpet messages are beamed
against those responsible for these tribulational martyrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Instead of trying to take vengeance,
they left vengeance in the hands of the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Another angel – this is not Christ,
Christ is in Heaven opening the seals, so this is a special angel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Golden censer – is a shovel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Given unto him much incense –
represents many prayers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Prayers of all saints – This is not
prayers of church, but prayers of tribulation saints.</span></b></div>
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4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of
the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The incense, symbolic of the
finished work of Christ, causes smoke to rise to the throne of God along with
the prayers of the saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The reason our prayers have any
effectiveness at all is because of the sweet savor of Christ’s finished work at
Calvary and His present intercessory work on our behalf.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Smoke of the incense – This is a
picture of the prayers of the tribulation saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This may be the reason for the 30
minutes of silence in Heaven back in verse 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God may have been listening to the prayers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These are Gentile saints.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Prayer is the great grace weapon in
the hands of believers, God always hears.</span></b></div>
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5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the
altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and
lightnings, and an earthquake.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Once prayer ascends, judgment
descends. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The fire represents judgment as do
the thunder, lightning, and earthquake.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The seven angels are now ready to
sound the seven trumpets proclaiming God’s judgment.</span></b></div>
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6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared
themselves to sound.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven angels – means seven leading
angels or high officials.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven speaks of perfection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven trumpets – speak of complete
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Trumpets were used to signal the
battle cry.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These seven angels were ready.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The first four trumpets are natural
disasters and take up seven verses.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The second three trumpets are
judgment from God and take up 50 verses.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The first four trumpet judgments
fall in three categories:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Agricultural – grass and trees.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Aquatic – salt water and fresh water.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Astronomic – sun, moon, and stars.</span></b></div>
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7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire
mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of
trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">As the first trumpet is blown, John
sees hail and fire mixed with blood fiercely falling to the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">First angel – first of the seven
leading angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sounded – This is the first trumpet
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This judgment of God is through the
destruction of agriculture.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">One third of plants and trees that
produce food will be destroyed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">So great is the devastation that 1/3
of the earth’s trees and green grass is completely burned up.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The dictator of the revived Roman
Empire will begin to employ methods of refusal to sell food to believers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Only those who have the mark of the
beast on their person will be able to get food.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This judgment was an attack on
vegetation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #984806;"> </span><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is a literal burning up of 1/3
of the earth’s vegetation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">There is no reason to assume this to
be figurative, since we take the plagues of Egypt to be literal (Ex. 9:23-24).</span></b></div>
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8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became
blood;</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The second angel sounds a trumpet
and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">It is not necessary that we identify
this instrument of judgment with anything in our present realm of experience.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">It may be a meteoric mass blazing
from the sky and falling headlong into the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It may be some atomic reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whatever it is, the destruction caused is unbelievable.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Second angel – one of the leading
angels</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sounded – this second trumpet
judgement</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">As it were a great mountain burning
with fire was cast into the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
a mass of chemicals going into the sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This judgment is against water (salt
water).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">1/3 of the sea became blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and
had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">1/3 of fish life died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world depends on sea for food.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">1/3 of ships were destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world depends on the sea and ships for
transportation of food.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This judgment along with a 1/3 of
agriculture destroyed begins to lead to world wide hunger and the mark of the
beast.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Imagine – 1/3 of all sea life dying.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">This will not be any time to be on a
pleasure cruise.</span></b></div>
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10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">As the trumpet of the third angel
sounds, there falls a great star from heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Third angel – one of the seven
leading angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sounded – This is the third trumpet
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is also a judgment on water
(fresh water).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Great star falling burning like a
lamp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also some type of mass
chemicals falling on the fresh water streams of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #984806;"> </span><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Perhaps a meteor, a great glowing
body will fall to earth and destroy another 1/3 of the world’s water supply,
including underground sources of water.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This attack is on fresh water, lakes
and rivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All life in them will die,
completely destroyed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Turning sweet water bitter, this
judgment will mean that now 2/3 of the world’s water will be deadly poison.</span></b></div>
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11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third
part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because
they were made bitter.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Name of the star is Wormwood, which
means a liquid poison.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">A species of plant related to our
sagebrush, wormwood is always used as a symbol of bitterness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">It makes a liquor which leads to
mental deterioration and death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
drinking the waters poisoned by the star Wormwood, men will go out of their
minds and die in judgment.</span></b></div>
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12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun
was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars;
so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third
part of it, and the night likewise.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Fourth angel – one of the seven
leading angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sounded – This is the fourth trumpet
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is celestial activity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The sun, moon and stars are greatly
affected.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">The judgment of the fourth trumpet
causes 1/3 of the sun to be blackened, 1/3 of the moon, and 1/3 of all the
stars.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">There will be a great decrease in
the amount of light and in the time that reduced light is visible, for the
hours of light during the day will be reduced by 1/3.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These are natural disasters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is bad, but the worst is yet to
come.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Notice the progression of the
judgments stemming from the trumpets.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Small amount of food available,
transportation and food distribution hampered, water is limited, light for food
production and harvesting is curtailed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">These will be dark days indeed, in
more than one sense of the word.</span></b></div>
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13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of
heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth
by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet
to sound!</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">If you think this is a bleak
picture, you haven’t seen anything yet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And I beheld – John looked suddenly</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">John saw an announcing angel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Saying with a loud voice – clear and
unmistakable voice.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The “woe, woe, woe” is announcing
the next three judgments.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The first woe is trumpet #5 and is
described in Rev. 9:1-12</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The second woe is trumpet #6 and is
described in Rev. 9:13 – 11:14</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The third woe is trumpet #7 and is
described in Rev. 11:15 – 12:17.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The announcing angel is warning that
the worst is yet to come.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-8110550343551950622013-02-04T09:15:00.000-08:002013-08-07T06:41:27.200-07:00Revelation - Chapter 7<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This Tribulation is the last seven
years of the Jewish age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In chapter 6,
we saw a summary of the Tribulation period and now we come to look at the
events step by step.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Revelation 6:17, which really
should be part of chapter 7, the Scripture asks who shall be able to stand.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Now we are to learn who shall be
able to stand. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The phrase “the great day of his
wrath” in Revelation 6:17 is a technical term for the seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chapter 7 is a chapter on
evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seven year Tribulation
will start out with only unbelievers, but many will be saved during the
Tribulation from both Jews and Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Even though this period of time will
be the worst period in human history, many will come to know Christ as Savior.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Even though the Tribulation will be a
time of religion, many will come to know Christ instead.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Religion is an enemy of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion may be the worst enemy to ever come
to man.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And after these things I saw four angels standing on the
four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind
should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
“fours” here represent the universality of these angels’ activity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“After these things” – the outline
given in chapter 6.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“I saw four angels” – four living
creatures, these are holy angels or God’s special angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Four corners of the earth.” This is
a technical term for the four points of the compass, north, south, east, and
west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not mean the earth is
flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Job spoke of the circle of the
earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here an angel is standing at each
place to give direction, and to judge the various segments of the human
race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are holding back the winds of
judgment. This is the doctrine of grace before judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Why are the angels holding back the
winds of judgment?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Because the 144,000 Jewish
evangelists are going out to proclaim the message of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Remember, the church has been
raptured and there are no believers on earth at the beginning of the
Tribulation, but many are going to hear the message of these Jews and believe.</span></b></div>
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2. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the
seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to
whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Revelation
7:2-3 depicts a fifth and apparently superior angel arising out of the east and
instructing the four angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Another” – another angel of the
same kind.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Ascending from the east – The Greek
says, “From the rising of the sun.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The seal of the living God refers to
protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 144,000 Jews are
protected by divine command.</span></b></div>
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3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">These
angels are restraining judgment long enough to reveal God’s grace.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">They
are holding on to the winds of God’s judgment so that He may save two great
throngs of people during this Tribulation Period.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Hurt not the earth, neither the sea,
nor the trees – These Jews are proclaiming the message of God under divine
protection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sealed the servants of our God on
their foreheads – This may refer to the seat of your thinking or the thinking
part of your mind.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">I don’t think this refers to a
literal mark on their foreheads; rather the doctrine they hold in their minds.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">These 144,000 Jews are going to be
sealed.</span></b></div>
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4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there
were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the
children of Israel. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
first group God chooses to save are “sealed” during the first 3 ½ years of the
Tribulation (vs. 3-8).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Were sealed” – perfect tense and
means they were sealed and will remain sealed forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
purpose of the seal is to indicate ownership, and the reference to their
foreheads suggests that they are publicly known as the saved of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sealed means God saved them and the
devil cannot get them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">If you are saved, you have been
sealed. This is passive voice, meaning you can’t do it, God has to seal you.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
number to be sealed is 144,000, and God’s revelation to John clearly indicates
that this group of 144,000 is composed of 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes
of Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
constant repetition of the phrase <u>of the tribe of … were sealed</u> (vs.
5-8) is too forceful to allow any other biblical or logical conclusion.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">144,000 sealed. These are radical
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have genes of Abraham, they
are protected. They will be going out and preaching during the worst time in
human history.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">During this time, the revived Roman
empire will rule the world and during this time, the dictator of Palestine will
rise up from the tribe of Dan.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He will set on the throne at Jerusalem
and demand to be worshiped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will put
up a statue in the temple and demand the whole world to bow down to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t bow down, you will not eat.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verses 5-8:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is the list of the house of
Jacob that will furnish the evangelists in the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the tribe of Dan is not mentioned.</span></b></div>
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5. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed
twelve thousand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Judah. This is the ruling tribe, the
aristocratic tribe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jesus is of this tribe and is called
the Lion of the tribe of Judah.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jesus is David’s greater son. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">David was from this tribe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Reuben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reuben was mentioned second for he was the
firstborn. But he lost his rulership to Judah, by the grace of God He gave him
12,000.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Gad. Gas was the 7th son in the
list.</span></b></div>
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6. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed
twelve thousand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Asher. Was the 8th son.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Nepthalim. Was the 6th son of Jacob.
His name means the son of my wrestling.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Manasseh. Was the weakest of the
tribes, but again, this illustrates the grace of God.</span></b></div>
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7. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed
twelve thousand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Simeon. This was a very weak tribe
and they never did take any land of their own and were scattered all over
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God used them nevertheless
under the principle that my strength is made perfect in weakness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Levi. This is the greatest principle
of cursing turned to blessing.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is one of the brothers who
pulled a terrible stunt and God said to this man that he would never inherit
any land.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Levi was to get no land, but Levi
repented, and under the ideal of a curse being turned into a blessing, God made
him the priestly tribe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He became the spiritual
administrator of the land. So they were scattered among all the other tribes to
be the spiritual administrators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the only kind of people God can use – those who are at the end of their
strength and their spiritual assets.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">We are what we are because of the
grace of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God uses the hopeless and
the helpless.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Levi rebounded and became the
priests, and Simeon didn’t rebound and was just phased out.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Issachar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name really means a strong donkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means one who is able to produce. It is
production based on grace.</span></b></div>
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8. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were
sealed twelve thousand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Zabulon. This means a haven for
ships. Land of Zabulon is the commerce area of the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God uses all kinds of business for His glory.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Joseph. Jospeh here actually refers
to Ephraim. The tribe cannot be named for they led the revolt against Judah. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">So Ephraim is not mentioned, but his
father’s name is mentioned instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ephraim had mental attitude sins and lacked love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this reason Joseph is mentioned in his
place.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Benjamin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means son of my right hand and this is
also a title used for Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Benjamin was the tribe faithful to
Judah in the split which came later, and God rewarded Benjamin for their
fidelity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There are 13 tribes, 12 are named
and Dan is omitted.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There is significant reason Dan is
omitted, from this tribe will come the false prophet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He will be the dictator of Israel
during the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know this
from Genesis 49:17, where he is described as being a serpent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Dan is also the tribe that initiated
and led in idolatry (Lev. 24:11). </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The golden calf was set up by Dan (1
Kings 11:26).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The 144,000 witnesses are Jewish
evangelists during the Tribulation and in the next verses; we are going to meet
the converts of these Jewish evangelists.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The details of their ministry
throughout the earth are spelled out in chapter 14.</span></b></div>
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9. After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Because
this vast number of Jewish servants faithfully witness to the saving power of
Christ Jesus, a second group of individuals is saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">After this – after the witnessing of
the 144,000 Jewish evangelists.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">A great multitude – which no man
could number. The word for number is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">arithemeo</i>
and we get our word arithmetic from this word.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Only God can number them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Of all nations – The word for
nations is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tawelhnea ethne</i> and it
means Gentiles, non-Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same word
is used in Matthew 25:31-35 (all nations).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">Let’s look at
Matthew 25</span></b></div>
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31. ¶<span style="color: red;"> When the
Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">When the son of
man – refers to His humanity. When Jesus comes back to the earth, He comes in
glory. This is His second advent. The elect angels come along to see the end of
the angelic conflict.</span></b></div>
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32. <span style="color: red;">And before
him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">The “all nations”
refers to all the Gentiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
divided into two groups – the sheep and the goats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 144,000 preach Christ to them and those
who accept Christ go into the Millennium, and unbelievers are taken off the
earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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34. <span style="color: red;">Then shall
the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is Christ’s
invitation to these saved Gentiles of the Tribulation to enter into the
Millennium.</span></b></div>
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35. <span style="color: red;">For I was
an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">The sheep were
confused and didn’t know what Jesus meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The principle was this: when you touch a Christian, you touch
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul was persecuting Christians
on the road to Damascus and the voice of Jesus said to him, “Why persecutes thou
me?” When you touch a Christian, you touch Christ.</span></b></div>
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40. <span style="color: red;">And the King
shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">The least of my
brethren are the 144,000 Jewish evangelists during the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gentiles take in these Jewish evangelists, befriend
them and give them shelter and in this way, they show their faith in Christ and
they receive a blessing for their faith.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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41. <span style="color: red;">Then shall
he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Ye cursed” is
a perfect tense and means that every time they heard the gospel, they rejected
Christ and said, No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result of
their own free will, they rejected Christ.</span></b></div>
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44. <span style="color: red;">Then shall
they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or
a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">The important
thing in this verse is “Lord, when did we do this?”</span></b></div>
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45. <span style="color: red;">Then shall
he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
of the least of these, ye did it not to me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">“One of the
least of these” refers to the 144,000 Jewish evangelists.</span></b></div>
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46. <span style="color: red;">And these
shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">These are the
Gentiles who will not believe the message of those Jewish evangelists and they
go into everlasting judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Back to Revelation 7:9</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">White robes – speak of
righteousness, clothed in perfection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Palms in their hands – In those days
when a battle was won, people would wave palm branches as a sign of victory.</span></b></div>
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10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God
which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is our testimony, loud and
clear.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Salvation belongs to our God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">They understood what it meant to be
saved.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">They were straight on their
doctrine.</span></b></div>
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11. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about
the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and
worshipped God, </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here the angels are going to
worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fell on their faces before
the throne.</span></b></div>
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12. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and
thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and
ever. Amen. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">They said, “Amen” that means I
believe it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Notice the seven characteristics
they mention.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Blessing – the gracious character of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Glory – the perfect plan of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Wisdom – God knows everything.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Thanksgiving – our response.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Honor – God provides everything of real value.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Power – God has all power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Might – we can appreciate His power.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Whereas
the 144,000 were all Jews, here is a great multitude of saved people who are of
all nations, all tribes, all peoples and tongues.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">They
stand before the Lamb in white robes, indicating that they too have been saved
by the blood of the Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Along
with all the angels and the 24 elders, presenting the church, this great
multitude praises the God of our salvation and the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">“That
they are distinct from the church appears from the following considerations: </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those were kept out of the Great Tribulation (3:10);
these came out.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those wear white raiment; these wear white robes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those sit on thrones round about the throne; these stand
before the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those wear crowns; these are uncrowned.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those have harps and vials; these have palms in their
hands.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those sing a new song; these cry with a loud voice.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Those are kings and priests and reign with Him; these
serve Him day and night” </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">(J.B. Smith, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Revelation of Jesus Christ, </i>p. 135.)</span></b></div>
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13. ¶ And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we have a question.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Who are these dressed in the white
robes?</span></b></div>
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14. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their
robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">To
John’s question concerning the origin of this numberless multitude, one of the
elders gives this noteworthy answer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Came out of great tribulation” –
These are those saved under the preaching of the 144,000 during the
Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">As
the 144,000 were sealed during the first part of the Tribulation, so too these
are saved during the last part.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">What
a wonderful picture of mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
the Tribulation is a time of judgment, there will be a time of salvation as
well.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">An
election out of Israel will be redeemed with an innumerable multitude of
Gentiles.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">In
the midst of justice is found God’s merciful salvation, for through Tribulation
come those who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Have washed their robes – this means
they have been saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Made them white in the blood of the
Lamb – this is the way they were saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">So
some may say “Well, if multitudes are going to be saved during the Tribulation,
then I’ll just wait. “</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">There
is bad news for those who reason in this manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one who hears the gospel today and rejects
it will have an opportunity to be saved during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">2
Thessalonians 2:11-12 says:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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11. And for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:</div>
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12. That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Whoever
rejects the gospel today will become a victim of the strong delusion spread by
the Antichrist during the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">They
will swallow his lie hook, line, and sinker – whether they want to or not.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">As
a result, they cannot believe the truth of the gospel then and will be damned
because they reject Christ now.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Only
those who have not known the gospel story or who have never heard it will have
opportunity to believe it during the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These will be the multitudes saved in Chapter
7.</span></b></div>
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15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him
day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell
among them. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The next three verses are a picture
of Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God’s people before Him and Christ
is on the throne in the midst of them.</span></b></div>
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16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither
shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Earthly trials are over.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">No discomfort in Heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">No need there.</span></b></div>
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17. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Lamb – He is also called the
shepherd.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He shall feed them, lead them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Living fountains of waters. – Notice
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">waters</i> is plural meaning the water of
salvation, water of the Holy Spirit and water of the Word.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God shall wipe away all tears. – No tears
in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be nothing to cry
about.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 06</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This chapter is a summary of the
Revelation and of the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Immediately following the rapture of the church there will be the seven
years of Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Holy Spirit will be gone from
the earth in the church capacity at the rapture, and He will no longer be
holding back the coming of the anti-Christ (2 Thess. 2:6-9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The anti-Christ will arise after the rapture.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">So the question is: how long will
the Tribulation last?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can read Daniel
9:24-27 for this answer. In verse 25, the first 69 weeks of Daniel’s 70 weeks
are divided into two parts “seven weeks, and three score and two weeks” for a
total of 69 weeks.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The word for week is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hebdomads</i> and means seven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The week of years was known as
sabbatical week of seven years.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">One week represents seven years,
thus seven weeks would be 49 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every 50th year, the Jews celebrated the year of jubilee, 69 weeks would
be 483 years.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God promised the Jews 70 weeks in
the land or 490 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was cut short
7 years by the cross of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>69 weeks
have already been fulfilled and the 7 years of Tribulation will complete the 70
weeks.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The 7 year Tribulation is the last
period of Jewish history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to the
Jews being in Babylon for 70 years, they were to observe the sabbatical year in
their land, but failed to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God let them cool their heels in
Babylon for 70 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was God’s way
of getting His time, this was for the time prior to captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had promised them 490 years in the land.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">After the captivity, God gave them
another 490 years in the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
cut short by the cross, and God will tack the remainder on at the last and the
period will be called seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The last week of 7 years is divded
into two halves (Dan. 9:27).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Daniel 7:25, the last half is
called a time, times and the dividing of time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Revelation 11:2 and Revelation
13:5, it is called 42 months.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The anti-Christ will be revealed
after the rapture and will have world power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the middle of the Tribulation, he will set himself up in the temple
in Jerusalem and demand the world to worship him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last part of the Tribulation (42 months),
he will have total power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Revelation 6:2 the rider on the
white horse is not Christ, but the anti-Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is the only chapter in
Revelation that deals with the first 3 ½ years of the seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The remaining chapters deal with the
last 3 ½ years of the seven year Tribulation. Chapters 7 – 11 deal with it from
a Gentile standpoint and Chapters 12 – 18 deal with the same period from a
Jewish standpoint.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I
heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and
see. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">At
the opening of the first seal by the Lamb of God, the first of the four
horsemen of the Apocalypse is revealed to John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rider held a bow, wore a crown, and went forth as a conqueror.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Lamb – Jesus opening the seals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the sealed book in Revelation 5:1.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Noise of thunder – warning of the
coming judgment.</span></b></div>
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2. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him
had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to
conquer. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
appearance of the white horse makes one think of the white horse in Revelation
19:11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the rider revealed by the
first seal cannot be Christ, for He is the one who holds the scroll and opens
the seal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No this is not Christ, but one
who comes in the name of Christ (Matt. 24:5), masquerading as the Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Antichrist and therefore comes
saying, “Peace, peace,” offering a plan of world peace and promising a false
Millennium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But remember that Paul said,
“When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape (I Thess.
5:3). This false Christ (II Thess. 2:3-12) is the Man of Sin, the
covenant-making prince of Daniel 9:26.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">White horse – Roman dictators always
rode white horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a sign of
victory.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He that sat on him – This is not
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is in Heaven opening the
seals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the dictator of the
revived Roman Empire.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Bow; and a crown – No arrows, just a
bow, the crown is counterfeit.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Conquering, and to conquer – This is
the dictator bringing the world together with internationalism.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The four beasts are the four living
creatures.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Notice the crown was given to
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ earned His crown.</span></b></div>
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3. ¶ And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second
beast say, Come and see. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">With
the opening of the second seal a red horse appears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This signifies the second phase of the reign of
the Antichrist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having come in peace, he
soon plunges the whole world into bloodshed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The peace plan offered by the Antichrist, and so readily accepted by the
nations of this world, will now be withdrawn, and he will cause worldwide war
and bloodshed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here Christ opens the second seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Second beast – another of the same
kind.</span></b></div>
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4. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was
given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Red horse – This is bloodshed and
war. The one on the red horse is the principle of war.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Take peace from earth – There will
never be peace until Christ comes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Kill one another – bloodshed world
wide.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Great sword – speaks of war
equipment.</span></b></div>
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5. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him
had a pair of balances in his hand. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">When
the third seal is opened a black horse appears and its rider has a pair of
balances in his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following closely
on the heels of war will be famine and starvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The balances suggest that a system of
rationing will be enforced (Rev. 13: 16-17).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">In
the New Testament times a denarius or penny was one day’s wages and bought only
enough for one person (Matt. 20:2,9). Because of the devastation of war, the
production of grain will be greatly curtailed and the whole world will have to
ration its food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is evident that we
are rapidly heading for the program even today.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here Christ opens the third seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Black horse – speaks of famine. He
that sat on the horse is the principle of hunger.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Balances in hand - to lack of food.</span></b></div>
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6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A
measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see
thou hurt not the oil and the wine. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">A measure of wheat for a penny – A measure
is less than a quart and a denarius is a day’s wage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Penny is 18 cents.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Three measures of barley – This speaks
of world wide hunger, starvation and famine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Hurt not the oil and wine – food for
the leaders and the wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor get
poorer and rich get richer.</span></b></div>
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7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of
the fourth beast say, Come and see. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here the Lord opens the fourth
seal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember the book containing the
seals was taken by the Lord Jesus back in Revelation 5:1.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Voice of the fourth beast – one of
the living creatures.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Come – John was invited to see the
happenings.</span></b></div>
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8. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat
on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them
over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and
with death, and with the beasts of the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
last horseman of the Apocalypse rides a pale horse, and the rider’s name is
Death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually the word “pale” (Gr <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chloros</i>) means green-like, as a
corpse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">This
rider, Death, will exterminate those living on the earth by four means: </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">the sword (war)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">hunger (famine)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">death (plagues which accompany famine)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(4)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">wild beasts (which will roam unrestrained in that day of
destruction)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">John is going to see the opening of
the fourth seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Pale horse – death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death and destruction follows this seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">¼ of the world destroyed – millions and
millions.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sword – speaks of war.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Hunger – famine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Notice the power he had, was given
to him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Beasts here speaks of wild beasts.</span></b></div>
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9. ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the
altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
fifth seal depicts the souls of those slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These cannot
be the martyrs of the Church Age, for they were raptured before the holocaust
of the opening of the seals.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">They
must be those martyred for their faith during the first months of the
Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their being under the altar
is symbolic of the fact that these people have been purchased by the blood of
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here Jesus opened the fifth
seal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the picture changes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we come to believers, the
martyrs.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the first four horses only
unbelievers were killed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here, these are killed for the Word
of God and for the stand they had taken.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The altar in this verse refers to
the cross.</span></b></div>
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10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord,
holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on
the earth? </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">When
those who have been slain for the Word of God inquire how long it will be until
the Lord avenges their blood, they are told to rest with their fellow servants
and brethren, for many more will yet join the ranks of the slain.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we find the prayers of the
martyrs.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And they cried with a loud voice –
They are the saints of God praying.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The prayer was in a question form.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Judge and avenge our blood –
Fulfillment of the kinsman redeemer.</span></b></div>
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11. And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it
was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were,
should be fulfilled. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here the saints are killed and given
a white robe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">White robes – speaks of purity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Rest for a little season – they were
with Christ waiting until God’s plan unfolded.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Fellowservants also and their brethren
– the rest of the saints would be killed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is during the last half of the
7 year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the
moon became as blood; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">With
the breaking of the 6th seal havoc is unleashed on the earth and the Lord’s
wrath brings cataclysmic judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six
literal, catastrophic events will occur:</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">a great earthquake</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">the sun becomes black</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">the moon becomes reddened like blood</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">a universal meteor shower of stars falls to earth</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">the heavens part as a scroll revealing God on His awesome
throne</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">every mountain and island are moved when the heavens roll
back. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
result will be panic and fear.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In Daniel 9:24-27 God had promised
the Jews 490 years in the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
time period was cut short by the cross seven years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seven years Tribulation is the 70th week
of Daniel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the last period of
Jewish history.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the first 12 verses of Chapter 6,
we have 6 seals opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verses 1 & 2
is the first seal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the dictator
riding the white horse and here politics reaches its maximum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The king of the west is a ten nation
confederation eventually ruled by one dictator that was riding the white horse.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Then we have the king of the north
and he is the ruler of the Russian block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The king of the south represents the
Arabs and Africa, the king of the east represents the Oriental block.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 1 & 2, the rider of
the white horse is the dictator of the revived Roman empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is talked about in 2 Thessalonians 2 and
Revelation 13:1-10 and again in Revelation 17 and in parts of Daniel 8 and 9.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He has a bow and a crown and will
conquer through warfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crown he is
wearing indicated his coronation by Satan.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This crown is the one Satan offered
Christ in the temptation and Christ refused it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 3 and 4, the second seal –
this is the rider of the red horse. This is warfare, man cannot maintain peace,
the only one that can is Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 5 and 6, the third seal –
the black horse and this is famine. Balances and scales are for weighing grain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This speaks of hunger.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 7 and 8 – the fourth seal –
the pale horse speaks of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death of
unbelievers, one fourth of all unbelievers in the earth will be killed.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In verses 9 through 11, the fifth
seal – this is the killing of believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are gentile believers. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Remember six is the number of man.
Now we have the opening of the sixth seal. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here the great earthquake comes.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">During the Tribulation, it will be a
radical change in nature. (Mark 13:8; Matt. 24:7, Rev. 8:5; 16:18).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">God is using nature to judge
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will blot out the sun and the
moon will become as blood.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">It may be because of the earthquake
and volcanic ash that will fill the heavens.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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13. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we see the judgement of God in
nature.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Stars falling like figs from a tree.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Stars here refer to celestial
bodies.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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14. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we see great turbulence in the
heavens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is demonstrating His great
power in the earth as moving mountains and islands out of their place.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Great fear now fills the earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This may be some nuclear activity.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is right at the end of the
seven year Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich
men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free
man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we see the reaction of the
people on earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Men can’t use political power to
stop this judgement.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Rich men cannot bribe their way out.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here is the largest prayer meeting
service to ever gather.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There are seven classes of men
gathered here:</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Kings of the
earth – that is rulers</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Great men –
those are political men – men of influence.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Rich men –
money hordes of the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chief captains –
they are the military leaders of the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Mighty men –
these are men of great physical strength.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And every
bondman – this is the working class of the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And every free
man – this is the white collar class.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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16. And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb: </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">And said – this is the prayer they
will pray</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is right at the end time.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is the second coming of
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is described in detail in
Revelation 19.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Christ came the first time in the
spirit of salvation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Christ will come the second time in
the spirit of wrath.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2428957873948749152" name="_GoBack"></a>17. For the great day of his wrath is
come; and who shall be able to stand?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here is the judgement of Christ, the
Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only two New Testament writers
to refer to Christ as the Lamb were John and Simon Peter.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Great day because of the terrible
judgement of God.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Who shall be able to stand? No one!</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">So there will be a seven year
Tribulation and at the end of the Tribulation, Christ will come and history
will come to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ will set up
his 1,000 year reign.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Chapter 6:13 – a summary of the
Revelation and beginning in chapter 7, the details are filled in.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Before
the opening of the 7th seal some additional information about this period of
tribulation is provided for us in Chapter 7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The narrative is not advanced; supplementary material is simply added.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Here
John sees four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the
four winds of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">The
activity of these angels does not follow the opening of the the 6th seal but
rather begins before the opening of the 1st seal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Therefore
Chapter 7 provides information about the whole of the Tribulation Period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This information is provided from the
perspective of salvation, not history.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Thus far, 6 seals have been opened
and the 7th seal is opened in chapter 8.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 05</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">In chapter 4, John saw five things:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jesus seated on the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The 24 elders.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The double judgement.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The church at rest.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The four living creatures – select angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The sixth thing John is going to see
is in chapter 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is going to see a
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book contains the judgement.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">There are several books talked about
in the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 7 sealed book (Rev.
5:1), the book of life (Rev. 3:5, 19:15, 22:19), the Lambs book of life (Rev.
21:27), the book of works (Rev. 20:12), the book of remembrance (Mal. 3:16),
and the book of the living (Psalm 69:28).</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a
book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here we have another majestic sight.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here we have both God, the Father
and Jesus, the Son on the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the days of the Apostle John,
books were usually scrolls (Gr biblion) rather than bound books such as we have
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a scroll was completely
filled with writing, it would be rolled a little ways, a seal would be placed
on it, and then it would be rolled a little more and sealed again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it was completely rolled, seven seals
would secure its message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To unroll the
scroll and reveal the contents, one must break the seals successively.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Book written within and on the
backside.” – this books contains 7 chapters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It had 7 seals and when one seal was broken, you could read the next
seal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Written” – this is in the perfect
tense and means it will remain written just in that form forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The book contains the judgements of
the seven year Tribulation, the sum total of perfection and divine
completeness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The seals mean that the book is not
to be opened until the church is removed from the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are now in the church age, next is the
rapture and then the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Tribulation is the time of the seven sealed book.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This book contains the title deed to
the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This sealed scroll recalls the
ancient Jewish custom of the kinsman-redeemer (Ruth 4).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Under the law, when an owner of
property allowed another to take possession of it, a sort of mortgage deed was
given to the original property owner.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This was a sealed scroll which
stated that at some future date a representative kinsman could reclaim that
property if the purchase price were met.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The landowner’s representative must
be a legal kinsman, and be worthy of the right to purchase the property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he had paid the stated purchase price,
then, and only then, could he break the seals on the scroll.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This worthy seal-breaker was called
the “redeemer,” for he had regained the property from the hands of another.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Adam sold the human race out, lost
it to sin. Jesus bought it back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
our kinsman redeemer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
kinsman redeemer was to buy back the inheritance that was lost or mortgaged.
(Lev. 25:25)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
kinsman redeemer was to redeem brothers from bondage. (Lev 25:49).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
kinsman redeemer was to marry the widow and raise up seed to the dead. (Ruth
4:4-5).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
kinsman redeemer was to avenge the blood. (Num. 35:19-35).</span></b></div>
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2. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who
is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Strong angel – means a capable
angel. One with a strong, loud and clear voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No man of human race is worthy to break the seals.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since this is the title deed to the
universe and only the purchaser of redemption can receive it from the hand of
God, an intensive search is made to discover a man worthy to open the scroll.</span></b></div>
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3. And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth,
was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Though the heavens, the earth, and
the netherworld are searched, no man worthy is found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By sin all men have forfeited any worthiness
they might conjure up to open the scroll (Ps. 14:1-3; Eccl 7:20; Rom 3:10, 23).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">No man is worthy to open the
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one in Heaven or earth.</span></b></div>
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4. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and
to read the book, neither to look thereon. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This caused John to fall into
uncontrollable despair and much weeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No man was found worthy.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">I wept – this is imperfect active
indicative and means John just kept on crying, heartbroken.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">No human was worthy to open the
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book contains the title deed
to this world, all that Adam lost in the Garden of Eden.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">If this book remained sealed, Satan
would be in total control of the earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The subject of the book is
redemption and judgement.</span></b></div>
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5. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the
Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book,
and to loose the seven seals thereof. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">One of the elders said to quit
crying. John’s weeping turned to joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Lion of Juda is Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is worthy, speaks of humanity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Root of David is Jesus, speaks of
diety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is worthy to open the book
and to judge the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has overcome
and prevailed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can and will break the
seals and this world will be judged by the perfect God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect justice will prevail.</span></b></div>
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6. ¶ And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of
the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God
sent forth into all the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Then John looked up and in the midst
of the throne, among the four living creatures, and among the 24 elders…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Stood a lamb – this is perfect
tense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means He stood and He will
stand forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Throne – judgement seat.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Four beasts – means 4 living
creatures, four endowed angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Christ had been seated, but now
stands to judge in the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Lamb as it had been slain – refers
to the fact that Christ received death on the cross.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven horns – reference to perfect
power – 7 = perfection; horn = power – perfect power.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven eyes – Eyes stand for
intelligence, seven is perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
knew everything.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Seven spirits – refers to His
character, His total essence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
speaks of the perfection spirit of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The one to open the seals will be
perfect.</span></b></div>
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7. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him
that sat upon the throne. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He is referring to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ takes the book out of the hand of the
Father.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The lamb, our kinsman redeemer will
open the book.</span></b></div>
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8. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and
golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, claims
those for whom He died, and immediately the four living creatures and 24 elders
sing a new song, a song of praise to the Redeemer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Christ takes the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Four beasts – these are four living
creatures (angels).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">All fall at His feet in praise.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Harps speak of praise.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Vials are bowls – full of the
prayers of the saints.</span></b></div>
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9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us
to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Here is the largest choir ever
assembled.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is a new song never sung
before.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">We don’t have the melody, but we do
have the lyric.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">We have the message – words form a
message and a song is not much unless you understand the words.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Melody appeals to the emotions.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Words appeal to the intellect.</span></b></div>
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10. And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we
shall reign on the earth. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Song on His labeling of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Song of the 1,000 year reign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Song of the redeemed to the Christ of glory.</span></b></div>
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11. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round
about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Even the angels, ten thousand times
ten thousand strong, who could not sing the new song of redemption, join in the
celebration of praise to the one worthy to receive the scroll by saying with a
loud voice.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This is the chorus of the song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the number in the choir.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Finally, every creature in heaven,
on earth, and under the earth sings honor and blessing to the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Yes, Christ Jesus humbled Himself,
came to earth in the form of a man, and died for mankind.</span></b></div>
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12. Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory,
and blessing. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Lamb is worthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lion of the tribe of Judah has met the
qualifications to open the scroll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is none other than the Lion (Gen
49:10) from between the feet of Judah, the Root of David (Isa 11:1), the Prince
of Peace (Isa 9:6-7), the Lamb of God (Jn 1:29).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is Jesus Christ the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the Lord Jesus makes another appearance
and the heavenly hosts sing, Worthy is the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Notice the seven things Christ was
to receive:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Power<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>riches<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>wisdom<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>strength<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>honor<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Glory<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>blessing</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This means Christ is worthy to
receive complete praise.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">This speaks of the total character
of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The title deed is in the hand of God
and only Jesus has paid the purchase price.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has purchased all things by His death on Calvary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Jesus Christ alone has paid the price
for redeeming God’s property, He is the only one who is able to take the scroll
out of the hands of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">On the cross the title to the
redeemed souls of the universe was purchased with Christ’s blood and now He
steps up and receives the scroll in one of the most dramatic scenes in history.</span></b></div>
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13. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I
saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Every creature joins in praise to
God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Praise is to God and the Father and
unto the Lamb.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The sum total of all praise the
Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The whole universe, including the
church in Heaven joins in on the chorus.</span></b></div>
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14. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty
elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Amen – means I believe it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The four living creatures sanctioned
it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The 24 elders joined in the praise
and worship.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beginning with the 6<sup>th</sup>
chapter, and continuing all the way to Chapter 19, the Apostle John is
permitted to view the Tribulation Period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Within these important chapters is a
series of three judgments: the seals (ch. 6), the trumpets (chs. 8-9), and the
bowls (ch. 16).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Between the record of each judgment
is a parenthetical chapter or chapters which provide additional information
about each judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #984806; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter
04</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Chapters
4 and 5 are a picture of the church in Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
we pass chapter 3, the church is not mentioned any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is for this reason that I believe the
church will not go through the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Always
remember to distinguish between the church and Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
the rapture of the church takes place, it will mark the beginning of the seven
year Tribulation. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
striking similarities between the elements of verse 1 and those in 1 Thess.
4:13-18, which record the Rapture of the church, cannot be coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here,
as a representative of the church at large, John envisions being caught up into
heaven to view the future.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
event symbolizes the catching up to heaven of all born-again believers before
judgment begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That this is a sign of
the Rapture of the church is believed for the following reasons:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “church”
does not appear again in until Rev. 22:16, after judgment is completely
finished.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There is an obvious transition between chapters 3 &
4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 3 speaks of the churches;
chapter 4 of judgment. Ch. 3 is set on earth; ch. 4 in heaven. Ch. 3 closes the
division of the things which are; ch. 4 opens the division of the things which
shall be hereafter.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The first vision of Christ in Revelation pictures Him in
the midst of the seven lampstands (which the book itself interprets as the
seven churches).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In chpts 4-19 Christ is
pictured in heaven (4:1-2; 5:5-6). It is certainly logical to believe the
church is there with Him (Jn 14:1-3).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The promise made to the Philadelphian church was that it
would be kept from the hour of trial (3:10). In order to escape the terrible
judgment of Revelation chpts 4-19, the church must be translated to heaven before
that time (1 Thess. 1:9-10; 5:9).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For
these and other reasons, it appears that John’s vision of himself being caught
up from earth to heaven is a symbolic representation of the Rapture of the
church before the events of the Tribulation described in chapters 4-19.</span></b></div>
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1. ¶ After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in
heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking
with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be
hereafter. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“After these things” – means the outline given
in Chapter 6.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
saw four angels” – four living creatures, these are holy angels or God’s
special angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Four
corners of the earth” – This is a technical term for the four points of the
compass:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>north, south, east and west.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An
angel is standing at each place to give direction, and to judge the various
segments of the human race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
holding back the winds of judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the doctrine of grace before judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Why
are the angels holding back the winds of judgment? Because the 144,000 Jewish
evangelists are going out to proclaim the message of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Remember,
the church has been raptured and there are no believers on earth, but many are
going to hear the message of these Jews and believe.</span></b></div>
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2. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne
was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
first thing John envisions in heaven is a throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not symbolism, but a judgment scene
set in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This throne is neither
the Great White Throne of Rev. 20:11 nor the Judgment Seat of Christ of 2 Cor.
5:10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one sitting on the throne is
none other than God Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
clear from the symbolism of verses 3 and 5 and from the direct reference to God
in verse 8.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Immediately” – in a moment and twinkling of
an eye (1 Cor. 15:52)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
was in the spirit” refers to being spirit filled.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Throne
was set in heaven” is talking about the judgment throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“One
sat on the throne.” – Jesus Christ is the one on the throne here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later it will be God on the throne.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
is not going to be three gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
one we will ever see will be Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You will see the hand of God, but not God (John 1:18)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
you see the word GOD, it is translated from Elohim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elohim is plural meaning God the Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
you find the word LORD it may be God the Father, or the Son or Holy
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell by the
context.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is translated from
Jehovah.</span></b></div>
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3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an
emerald. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that sat” is Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“To
look upon” – this is not a verb, but a noun and means that his eyes almost
popped out of his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Special
attention to what you are going to see.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Jasper”
– this is a translucent stone, another kind of diamond.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sardine
stone” – comes from the hills of Sardis, and was a famous blue diamond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are only found in that part of the
world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
jasper stone, mentioned in verse 3 and explained in Rev. 21:11 is a
crystal-clear white stone representing the purity and glory of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">On
the other-hand, the sardius stone is ruby-colored, a blood red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this is pictured God’s redemptive nature.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
two stones are the first and last stones in the breastplate of the high
priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pictures Jesus dressed as
our High Priest.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
“rainbow round about the throne” had great significance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The significance is given in Genesis
9:12-16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one had ever seen a rainbow
before the flood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rainbow means “God
keeps his word”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
first rainbow was the sign of a promise from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time you see a rainbow it speaks of the
perfect character of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is saying “This
is my perfect character, you can count on me.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
colors are a little different from other rainbows in this case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green in nature speaks of eternal life. The
Word of God abides forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Just
as a rainbow is the joint production of a storm and sunshine, so the eternal
life of the believer is a production of a storm and sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sins of the world poured out on Christ is
the storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvation provided for all
men is the sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rainbow is
therefore a token of the grace of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
first thing John saw in Heaven was Jesus Christ in all His glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green, a secondary color, is a combination of
blue and yellow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yellow reminds us of
what Christ was in eternity past, His deity in eternity past. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
cannot die – Deity cannot die. But Christ was physical also, a perfect man
without an old sin nature, minus the imputation of Adam’s sin, minus any acts
of sin.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So
this color green stands for Christ, and all that He is in His perfect
character.</span></b></div>
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4. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and
upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment;
and they had on their heads crowns of gold. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John
saw 24 thrones and 24 elders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word
elders is presbuteros and means leadership, the one in charge or the one with
high rank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows rank.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
elders are sitting dressed in white raiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They had crowns on their heads – they are 24 special angels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Opinions
vary as to who these elders may be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
most logival identification is that they are the raptured church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are representative of the entire
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the officials of the church
today, no better symbol than the elders could be used in this vision to
represent the whole church (Acts 15:6; 20:17; James 5:14).</span></b></div>
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5. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings
and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which
are the seven Spirits of God. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
throne itself has an emerald-colored rainbow completely encircling it, and out
of the throne proceed lightnings and thunderings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here again is a contrasting picture of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
have two sign of judgment – these come from nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lightnings and thunder and voices.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lightning
and thunder gives warning of a coming storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Voices refer to the sound of the wind.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
storm here is the coming judgment of God from Heaven to the earth and is
referring to the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seven
lamps and seven spirits remind us of the perfect essence qualities of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaks of the perfection of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fire
burning” – this speaks of the harsh judgment.</span></b></div>
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6. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto
crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four
beasts full of eyes before and behind. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
is one more group around the throne that needs identification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the four beasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are described in detail in verses
6-7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not referring to grotesque
animals but rather living creatures of diverse characteristics.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sea
of glass” – this is referring to the church at rest in Heaven.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Like
unto crystal.” – On earth, the sea is a picture of unrest, but in Heaven, it is
calm.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Four
beasts” – Beast is zoa in the greek and is used for creatures in the angelic
kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the highest of the living
creatures and means four elect angelic creatures.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Eyes
before and behind” – indicate super intelligence.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
are two kinds of angels in the Bible: Cherubim (Ezekial 1 & 10) and
Seraphim (Isaiah 6).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Cherubim
were the most beautiful beings ever created by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, Satan was a cherub.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seraphim
is the reflecting angel, reflects God’s glory.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
four living creatures are a combination of both seraphim and cherubim.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
7. 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. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
are four types of flesh that live on the earth: man, wild beast, domestic
beast, and fowl.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">First
beast is like a lion, king of beasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Matthew presents Jesus as a lion and king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This represents the tribe of Judah.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Second
beast is like a calf or ox and means serving one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark’s gospel presents Jesus as the servant
or serving one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This represents the
tribe of Ephraim.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Third
beast had a face of a man. Luke’s gospel presents Jesus as a human. This
represents the tribe of Reuben.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Fourth
beast like a flying eagle. This is a picture of God and His strength. John’s
gospel presents Jesus as the Son of God. This represents the tribe of Dan.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
verses are the reason the gospels appear in the order they do in the
Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, Mark’s gospel was
written first.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
beasts are going to fall down and worship Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
8. ¶ And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him;
and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Four
beasts” means four living creatures.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Six
wings” – a description of the Seraphim (Isa. 6).</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Full
of eyes” – super intelligence</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“They
rest not” – constantly praising the Lord.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saying,
Holy, holy, holy.” These four living ones proclaimed the triune God, the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
four living creatures are heavenly cherubim (Ez. 10:15, 20). They complete the
symbolism that every living creature in heaven will praise God, both earthly
and heavenly beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Both
the raptured church, represented by the 24 elders, and the heavenly angels,
represented by the four living cherubim, will one day praise the Lord as He
ought to be praised today.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
9. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him
that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
tells us of the universal worship of God in Heaven. Christ is worshiped as the
eternal creator.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Glory”
– this is a recognition of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Honour”
– refers to the person of Christ, the one who redeemed us.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thanks”
– refers to the work of Christ.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Note
that Power is not here but in verse 11.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on
the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their
crowns before the throne, saying, </div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
activity of the 24 elders gives us a clue as to our own activity in
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cast their crowns before
the throne as they praise the Lord God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
are not crowns of royalty (Gr. Diadema) – these are the crowns (Gr. Stephanos) of
faithful service during this life.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What
better way to praise and honor God than to cast at His feet the tangible
evidence of our heavenly reward?</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
the 24 elders cast their crowns at the feet of Jesus and worship Him as
creator, then the redeemed church joins in praise.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
living creatures in the past verses represent the grace of God and the 24
elders represent the judgement of God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
alternative of grace is judgment.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Everyone
must decide whether Christ will be their Savior in time or their judge in
eternity.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Because
the 24 elders represent judgment, they are going to sing a song in verse 11
that will include power.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created.</div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Power
is added to the three mentioned in verse 9.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Power
refers to the authority of Christ to judge.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
see His power and recognize Him as judge.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse is a song.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-31538575995965756892012-11-26T21:44:00.000-08:002012-11-26T21:44:05.183-08:00Revelation - Chapter 3<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2428957873948749152" name="_GoBack"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">A Study of the
Book of Revelation</span></b></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 03</span></u></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT SARDIS (verses 1-6)</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sardis
means - remnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a local church
which pictures reformation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
sin enters in to the local assembly it must be rooted out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently Sardis was this type of
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church received a few
warnings (verses 2 & 3) but never received a direct rebuke from the Lord as
the previous churches had.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was not a perfect church but it was attempting to live blamelessly before the
Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church symbolizes the local
churches which attempt to live righteously before a watching world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
is located 35 miles southeast of Thyatira; located in the crossroads of the
caravans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the chief city of Lydia
and until 549 B.C. served as Lydia’s capital.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Its
citizens were the first to make coins from precious metals that were guaranteed
in weight by a government stamp.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wool
dying was supposed to have started here.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Many
pagan temples and several Jewish synagogues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Artemis and Zerus were the gods at Sardis.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
had bathhouses, theaters and large statues in the city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Main
market for the sheep herders of Phyrgia and was a great distributing center for
wooden trade.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Also
famous for their arts and crafts.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Well
known for their loose living, their luxury living and their love for pleasure.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sardis
became a byword for slack and wild living.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
great earthquake of A.D. 17 ruined the city both physically and
financially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Romans gave much money
to help them rebuild, but they never recovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many wars that took place at Sardis also affected their survival.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;">1. ¶ And unto the angel of the church in
Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the
seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art
dead. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Seven
Spirits of God” – speaks of the perfect spirit of God. (Zechariah 3:9; 4:10;
and Rev. 4:5)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus
is true humanity and undiminished deity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is the unique person of the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He holds seven stars in His hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a picture of Christ holding the pastors in His hand.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
know thy works” means I am aware of your production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ knew all about them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou
hast a name that thou livest, and art dead” – They put on a front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Name” refers to reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
lets us know exactly what kind of reputation they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
really did things that brought great excitement to the church and city, yet
they were dead spiritually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sardis was a
church that fooled the rest of the citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were sweet and friendly, but they were out of fellowship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They impressed people, but not God.</span></b></div>
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2. <span style="color: red;">Be watchful, and strengthen the
things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works
perfect before God. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
are being told to become watchful, repent and get back in fellowship with God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Strengthen
the things which remain” – means they are to stabilize the church by getting in
the Word and learning doctrine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“That
are ready to die” – those who are losing their Christian influence and
happiness because they are out of fellowship.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
have not found thy works perfect before God” – they were trying to accomplish
things in their own strength and ability.</span></b></div>
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3. <span style="color: red;">Remember therefore how thou hast
received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not
watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will
come upon thee. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
means you heard it in the past; now use what you have heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hold fast, repent, change your mental
attitude.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“If
therefore thou shalt not watch” – This is a third class condition and means
maybe you will and maybe you won’t.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If
they don’t repent; judgment is coming.</span></b></div>
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4. <span style="color: red;">Thou hast a few names even in Sardis
which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white:
for they are worthy. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is praise for a small group in the church that was living for God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were under the control of the spirit.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
were worthy not because of who and what they were, but because of their spirit
filled lives.</span></b></div>
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5. <span style="color: red;">He that overcometh, the same shall be
clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,
but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that overcometh” - Talking about those who were saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Clothed
in white raiment” - refers to positional truth; those who have been saved have
eternal life and that can never be taken away from them</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
were saved and had the perfect righteousness of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
will not blot out his name out of the book of life” – believers have eternal
life and nothing can remove his name.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
will confess his name” – Christ will call the names before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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6. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Assurance
in time; listen, be alert and take in doctrine; be directed by the Holy Spirit.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA (verses 7-13)</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Located
28 miles southeast of Sardis and 105 miles from Smyrna; located on the Cogamus
River.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Name
means “brotherly love”.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wine
center of the Ancient World.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Many
earthquakes shook and destroyed this city, but it would be quickly rebuilt
because of the great vineyard here.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Many
people lived outside the city because of the earthquakes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
city was the most devoted to the Roman emperors.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church of this city lived longer than any of the other churches of the
Revelation chapters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
discovered a famous church pillar that could withstand earthquakes and this is
one reason the church building survived so long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When
the Turks came and destroyed the city, this church had a good name and may have
been the greatest of the seven.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church was a missionary church and Christ opened the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came to be known as the church of the
opened door.</span></b></div>
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7. <span style="color: red;">¶ And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he
that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth,
and no man openeth; </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Angel”
- means pastor/teacher of the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
gives another description of Himself: holy and true.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Holy”
– Christ has all the essence qualities of God</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“True”
– Christ is revealed by true doctrine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Keys
of David” – Christ in His humanity was in the lineage of David and He will
fulfill the Davidic covenant. (2 Samuel 7:8-16) and (Psalm 89:20-27).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This covenant states that David will have a son who will
reign forever and that son is Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that openeth and no man shutteth” – Jesus Christ is in complete control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the final authority in the universe.</span></b></div>
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8. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works: behold, I have set
before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little
strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
knows from experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows all the
facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew the production of the
church in Philadelphia and He knows the production of all churches.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
have set” - This is in perfect tense and means Christ has set this door open in
the past and it will continue to be open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
door was opened for witnessing and missions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
have set or given" refers to God’s grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Open doors speaks of God’s grace. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
church survived a long time because the people were walking through this door.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church is not a political center, social center, humane agency but rather a
preaching/teaching center.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
Jerusalem church got legalistic and God moved it to Antioch, the third largest
city in the Roman empire, and when Antioch failed to walk through the open
door, he moved it to Ephesus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Little
strength” and “kept my word” and “hast not denied my name” – refers to the
character of the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
are four doors in Revelations (3:8, 3:30, 4:11, and 19:11)</span></b></div>
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9. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I will make them of the
synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I
will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have
loved thee. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
are religious Jews who magnified ritual above reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Jews opposed Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In
Acts 13:33, they opposed Paul.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
were trying to be saved by works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Religious Judaism is of Satan.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which
say they are Jews, and are not” – refers to the fact they said they were Jews,
but a true Jew is one who believes in Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A true Jew is a regenerated Jew.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Three
kinds of Jews spoken of in the Scriptures:</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Radical Jews have the genes of Abraham.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religious Jews depend on religion to save.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Regenerated Jews have trusted in Jesus Christ to save them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
group was saying they were Jews, they were radical and religious Jews but not
true regenerated Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jewish race
was built on the principle of regeneration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They drifted away from this.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion
always emphasized human works and this always turns into pride.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion
is man reaching up to God and Christianity is God reaching down to man.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For
the Lord to say “know that I have loved thee” this must have been a great
church.</span></b></div>
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10. <span style="color: red;">Because thou hast kept the word of
my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall
come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Tremendous
doctrinal implications are stated here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can conclude that the church will not go through the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou
hast kept the word of my patience” – the word kept means to keep something that
belongs to you.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
saints had kept something that belonged to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believers possess the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It belongs to them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Of
my patience” – refers to faith in action.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These
people had kept the word and Jesus said “I also will keep thee from the hour of
temptation.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
are two words for keep in the Greek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tereo ek </i>and means to keep out
of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other word is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hairo</i> and this word means to take out
of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word used in this verse for keep
is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tereo ek</i> and it means that the
church will be kept out of the Tribulation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
Tribulation time will be a time when religion will cover the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that the church will be raptured
before the Tribulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Tribulation
will last seven years, and this is to complete the Jewish age.</span></b></div>
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11. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I come quickly: hold that
fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
have here an exhortation to the local church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
come quickly” - The time is short, we need to get with the Word and learn and
apply as much Bible doctrine as we can.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“No
man take thy crown” – refers to the Judgment Seat of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">All
you produce when you are out of fellowship means discipline in time and loss in
eternity, so don’t cheat yourself out of your crown by not knowing doctrine and
by not staying in fellowship with God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beware
of being robbed of your reward by being backslidden.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
is especially pleased with those who avail themselves of the open door of the
gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church is promised
deliverance from the hour of trial and from seeing conditions which would
discourage them from using the open door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are promised the crown of reward and, in the symbolism expressed
here, a place of prominence in the heavenly temple of eternity.</span></b></div>
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12. <span style="color: red;">Him that overcometh will I make a
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write
upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new
Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon
him my new name. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
is the overcomer and we are overcomers because of our position in Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
will make a pillar in the temple” - The pillar of the church that withstood
earthquakes; withstood the test of the ages; </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Philadelphia
had many earthquakes, but they had designed a stone in the church there that
would withstand earthquakes, and more than a thousand years later, when the
Turks came to conquer Philadelphia, they saw that beautiful church still
standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pillars had withstood the
test of the ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today some of those pillars
are still there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If
you are saved, you continue to be saved and you shall forever be saved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
shall go no more out” – the saved man can never become unsaved.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
will write upon him my new name” – a new name goes with the new birth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
promised to write on these and all saints His name, the name of His city and
His new name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although it is impossible
to say what that new name will be, it is evident that the act of writing His
name on us identifies us as His eternal possession. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“New
Jerusalem” – more on this in Chapter 21</span></b></div>
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13. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Keep
on hearing. This behooves every Christian to use every available door to
witness of the love of Christ at every available time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT LAODICEA (verses 14-22)</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now
we come to the final church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seven
churches which John addresses lie within a great semicircle beginning with
Ephesus, and moving northward and eastward to Smyrna and Pergamum, and then
south to Laodicea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Located
43 miles southeast of Philadelphia and 40 miles southwest of Ephesus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
city lay on one of the great Asian caravan routes and this insured its great
commercial prosperity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Became
the leading banking center. Very wealthy city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">After
the great earthquake destroyed the city, they refused any assistance from Rome
to help them build back the city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
wealth attitude carried over into the church for they said we are rich and have
need of nothing.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
Lucus Valley was good for the sheep and goats and they produced a glossy black
wool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Source of black carpets and long
flowing black robes made in this city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Home
of a very famous medical school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made an
eye salve called Phrygian Powder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People
would come far and near to have the eye salve applied to their eyes for
healing.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was a resort area also known for its lukewarm water.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">City
was filled with pagan temples, theaters, stadiums and a large necropolis.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Served
as a guardian for the ancient trade routes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Self-righteous,
self-sufficient attitude of this city carried over into the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">May
have been the worst of the seven churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was lukewarm to the Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
people of the church strayed away from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coldness, callousness and unconcern are marks of this church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A
church in need of spiritual power was their position.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Spiritual
decay and poverty were the cornerstones of this church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a church with Christ on the outside
knocking at their door.</span></b></div>
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14. <span style="color: red;">¶ And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true
witness, the beginning of the creation of God; </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Saith
the amen.” - This is a description of Jesus, the one who can be trusted.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The
faithful” - Christ will always be faithful to His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“true
witness” - He is the revealer of God (the truth).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
beginning of God’s creation; the creator of all things.</span></b></div>
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15. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
unbeliever is cold and the believer is hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If water is allowed to cool off, you have lukewarm water, and that is
what happened in this church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lukewarm
means they were out of fellowship with God, they were carnal Christians.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
word translated lukewarm is used only here in the New Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a reference to tepid water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
would that thou were cold or hot” – If they were unbelievers, Christ could save
them, if they were hot, they would be in fellowship.</span></b></div>
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16. <span style="color: red;">So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice
that He is not talking to an individual but to a church and He is not talking
about salvation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church must know that lukewarmness is a sin against God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse means Christ will spit or vomit them out of His mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means He will remove their candlestick or His
power from the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He
cannot tolerate such a condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">No
one could accuse the members of the Laodicean church of the excesses which
characterized other churches nor could they accuse them of serving the Lord zealously
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
were simply maintaining the status quo…a middle of the road policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church was guilty of gross indifference.</span></b></div>
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17. <span style="color: red;">Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
church was also guilty of gross self-sufficiency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They no longer needed to rely on the Lord for
they were functioning well by committee.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here
Christ quotes them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had nice
buildings, choirs, clothes and all the mechanics of a church, but they were
backslidden and not even aware of it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here
is what Christ said about them, “wretched” choking to death for lack of Bible
doctrine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Miserable”
- pitiful.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Poor”
- begging for happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are constantly
looking for happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing
that makes them happy is the Word of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Blind”
– they were slipping and didn’t even know it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Naked”
– means poorly dressed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
is a sad situation when a church boasts of gaining wealth by her own human effort
and does not realize in reality that her true state is that she is “wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”</span></b></div>
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18. <span style="color: red;">I counsel thee to buy of me gold
tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou
mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and
anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
counsel thee” – I strongly advise you to buy me.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Gold”
– golden truth</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Tried
by fire” – of His perfect mind.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Mayest
be rich” – rich from God’s wealth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“White
raiment” – clothes with a mantle of truth around your soul.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Shame
of thy nakedness” – a naked soul.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Anount
thine eyes with eyesalve” – rub the truth of the Word on your eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
also speaks directly to them as they were known for their eye salve as we
discussed in the introduction of Laodicea.</span></b></div>
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<div class="trail">
19. <span style="color: red;">As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
is reminding them that His rebuke to them is based on His love for them.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
rebuke” – means to judge with discipline.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Chasten”
– to cause them to repent and return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The word repent means to change your mind.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
20. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and
will sup with him, and he with me. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse if often used when we talk to the unsaved, but it was given to Christians
to get back in fellowship with God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is not an appeal for salvation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Behold”
– a strong word for getting attention.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
stand” – He stood in the past and keeps on standing.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Knock”
– He keeps on knocking.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“If”
- is a third class condition and means that maybe you will hear and maybe you
won’t.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hear”
– means to listen and concentrate.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Then
will I come in” – It does not say that He will come in and save them from their
sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had already been saved and
salvation is not the issue here.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
means He will come in and have fellowship with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a fellowship verse and is meant for
Christians.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
must become keenly aware that whoever is to receive the message of salvation
prior to the awful Tribulation Period must receive it now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must “preach as if never to preach again;
as a dying man to dying men.”</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
21. <span style="color: red;">To him that overcometh will I grant
to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is a verse describing the reward for those staying in fellowship.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Please
notice the final victory has been set, even when Jesus sat down at the Father’s
throne.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
22. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse emphasizes again the truth that spiritual recovery is possible for every
born again child of God.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Rejoice
and praise the Lord, Heaven is the place of the second chance.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Living
in fellowship comes from obedience to the Word of God, if we hear it and live
by it.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-45110473517283275012012-11-06T08:09:00.000-08:002012-11-06T08:09:08.996-08:00A Study of the Book of Revelation - Chapter 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2428957873948749152" name="_GoBack"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT EPHESUS (verses 1-7)</span></u></b></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
city of Ephesus – 250,000 population, surrounded by a wall 6 miles in length,
located 3 miles inland from the Aegean Sea.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Ephesus
means desirable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an endearing
term a young Greek boy would use to refer to his bride-to-be.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was a great religious center and was 45 miles south of the Izmir near the mouth
of the Cayster River, with the Veander River farther south of it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was the most famous of the ancient metropolises of Asia Minor.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
had many pagan temples and flourished as the largest bank of the Roman Empire –
known as the Bank of Asia.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Paul
started the church at Ephesus and was there 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Timothy and the apostle John pastored
the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was this city from which John was banished to the Isle of Patmos.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are three important questions that must be asked:
Who is doing the speaking? Who is being spoken to? and What is being spoken
about?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Who is doing the speaking:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first verse of the letter gives the
graphic description of the speaker, one who holds the seven stars in His right
hand and walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verse 8 also provides a description of the
speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other verses 2:12, 18 and 3:1,
7, 14 give a description of the speaker as well. We can determine from these
descriptions that the speaker to the seven churches is the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Whom is Jesus speaking to:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each letter is addressed to the angel of the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This word in the greek (angelos)
means messenger, the one to whom authority has been given over the local church…this
is the pastor.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is being spoken about:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this brings us to the heart of these two
chapters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John is told to write a letter
to each of the seven churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
were literally seven distinct churches which existed in western Asia Minor
during the first century.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why are these churches so special?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The message to these local churches reaches
beyond that time and place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must
remember that Christ sent his angel the message to John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He used present signs to show the meaning of
future events.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The conditions of these local churches are typical of the
stages that current churches will go through before the Rapture.</span></b></div>
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1. <span style="color: red;">¶ Unto the angel of the church of
Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
word Angelus means messenger and in James 2:25 is translated messenger.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
7 stars refer to the pastors of the 7 churches of Asia.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
is in the midst of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
here!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">At
the beginning of each of the 7 letters, Christ gives one characteristic of
Himself.</span></b></div>
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2. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works, and thy labour, and
thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast
tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
have here the Lord’s appraisal of the church of Ephesus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
know thy works” – perfect tense and means He knows everything they have done,
what they are thinking and what they are going to do.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Thy patience” – walking as children of faith
– hard workers</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“How
thou canst not bear them which are evil” – plural and means will not tolerate
them that don’t believe true doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hast
tried them which say they are apostles.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- This church knew what apostles were; some had come saying they were
apostles. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
was an evangelistic church which had labored for the Master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a separated church for it would not
endure false teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an
orthodox church, trying false apostles and judging them as liars.</span></b></div>
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3. <span style="color: red;">And hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Borne”
– a military term that means carry on under fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means you know doctrine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hast
patience” – means believed the promises – hath labored for me.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Not
fainted” – means didn’t quit.</span></b></div>
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4. <span style="color: red;">Nevertheless I have somewhat against
thee, because thou hast left thy first love. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He
is referring to criticism of the church and that is what was wrong with the
church. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They no longer exhibited the fervent evangelism they once had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They no longer spontaneously expressed their
love and devotion to God as they once did.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou
hast left thy first love” – what is to be our first love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Have
we left our first love?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
church had left God out – Jesus was no longer the center of their living.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
thing that will make us alive is the Word of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We grow through the Word.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We go through the Word.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Their
emotional fervor and depth of love for God had diminished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They no longer exhibited the passionate
evangelism they once had.</span></b></div>
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5. <span style="color: red;">Remember therefore from whence thou
art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee
quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
had been in love and fellowship with Jesus, but they had left it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He
was calling on them today to remember this love.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fallen”
– means they fell some time ago and are still falling, it has become a
permanent state of fall.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Do
the first works” – get back in fellowship</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick” – church
power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long will any church be here:
as long as we keep Christ as our main purpose.</span></b></div>
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6. <span style="color: red;">But this thou hast, that thou hatest
the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church of Ephesus was a people’s church for they hated the deeds of the
Nicolaitanes. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
Nicolaites were a group of people who argued that there ought to be two classes
in the church, clergy and congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They wanted a hierarchy to rule the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Once
faithful, but changed – the deeds referred to here are sex acts. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
hated them too.</span></b></div>
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7. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Spirit
speaks – you hear – gave promise</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Overcometh
– means redeemed (1 John 5:4)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Tree
of life” – everlasting life if you believe in God you will have everlasting
life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Paradise
of God” – a Persian word which means beautiful garden.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT SMYRNA (verses 8-11) </span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Smyrna
was a persecuted church. Located about 70 miles from the city of Ephesus and
had a flourishing sea port because it was located at the head of a 30 mile long
gulf.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Smyrna
means myrrh, which is an aromatic substance that comes from a thorny tree but
must be crushed to yield its perfume and fragrance.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Had
a natural beauty, fertile soil and an excellent climate.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Had
a very large Jewish population. Was a famous wine center. Had many Roman
temples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Polycarp,
who was a disciple of the apostle John, was the pastor of the church there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Was
almost destroyed by an earthquake in A.D. 179.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was rebuilt by the Romans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
city was very brilliant with wide paved streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One street was known as “Street of Gold”.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Had
a school of science and medicine, beautiful buildings, and a theater that
seated 20,000 people.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Two
large temples called Zeus and Mother of goddess located at each end of Street of
Gold.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
city had 7 squares and a large public library.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
people of this city were very faithful to Rome, and the word faithful in verse
10 would have had a very special appeal to them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Even
though there were many Roman temples here and was a concentrated center of
heathen worship and a wine center, there is nothing said against the church.</span></b></div>
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8. <span style="color: red;">¶ And unto the angel of the church in
Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is
alive; </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Angel
is referring to the pastor/teacher.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Write”
– this is a command.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“First
and last” – this speaks of the deity of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which
was dead” – here again we have reference to the humanity and crucifixion of
Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And
is alive” – the resurrection</span></b></div>
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9. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works, and tribulation, and
poverty, (but thou art rich ) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they
are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
know” – refers to the omniscience of God</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thy
works” – is their production</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And
Tribulation” – serious trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were strong because of the suffering they were going through. Such trouble was
directed toward the church by the Roman emperors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christians are not to think it strange when
they encounter such tribulation but are to be happy when reproached for the
name of Christ (1 Peter 4:12-19).</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
persecution by the Roman government upon local churches was like the crushing
of myrrh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At no time in the history of
the church was such a fragrance of faithfulness and loyalty to Christ exhibited
to the world as during those centuries.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Each
crushing blow gave a “sweet-smelling savor unto God”.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Poverty”
– Smyrna was a wealthy city with many Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Roman tax collectors could report these
Christians and thereby collect 10% for reporting them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This way the Christians were reduced to
poverty.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I
know the blasphemy of them …” – Some were posing to be religious Jews, much
like Saul of Tarsus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Three
kinds of Jews:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Radical</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religious</span></b></div>
<div class="trail" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Regenerated</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">True Jew is a regenerated Jew.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Synagogue
of Satan” – refers to the seat of Satan and his teachings.</span></b></div>
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10. <span style="color: red;">Fear none of those things which thou
shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may
be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown of life. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christians
are not to think it strange when they encounter such tribulation but are to be
happy when reproached for the name of Christ. (1 Pet. 4:12-19)</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church of Smyrna had apparently endured just such a reproach and, as such, may
speak of the church throughout the ages, especially during the second and third
centuries.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Fear
none” – mental fear and they would be better off not to fear.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Those
things which thou shalt suffer” – refers to the days of persecution that will
fall on them.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Have
tribulation ten days” – the suffering they would endure under the Roman
emperors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
came under Nero, Domition, Trajan, Auerlius, Severus, Masiminus, Delius,
Valeriyus, Aurelian, and Diocletian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Diocletian was the worst of all.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">They
all tried to stamp out the church, but the church stayed faithful.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Constantine
came along and brought the union of the church and state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more persecution brought on, the more the
churches multiplied.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">At
no time in the history of the church was such a fragrance of faithfulness and
loyalty to Christ exhibited to the world as during those centuries.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Yet
each crushing blows gave a “sweet-smelling savor unto God.”</span></b></div>
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11. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt
of the second death. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that hath an ear, let him hear” – be alert and listen.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Spirit
saith unto the churches” – Notice the letter is to be heeded by all the
churches.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that overcometh” – this refers to salvation.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Shall
not be hurt in the second death” – no Christian will ever stand at the judgment
and be condemned to hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Christian
will have his works evaluated, but never judged.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT PERGAMOS (verses 12-17)</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
city was an important religious center where the pagan cults of Athena, Zeus, Aslepius,
and Dionysos were prominent.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
were a university and the large library of 200,000 volumes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cleopatra persuaded Mark Anthony to have the
library crated up and sent to Alexandria.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Also
known to be a great political center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was the capital of Mysia.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Babylon
established their center or religion at Pergamos and infiltrated Christianity
here.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
city is located 15 miles from the Aegean Sea and 50 miles from Smyrna in the
Caicus Valley.</span></b></div>
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12. <span style="color: red;">¶ And to the angel of the church in
Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two
edges; </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
word Pergamos means marriage and signifies the spiritual adultery in which this
local church engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Pergamos
is a picture of the church in compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What the devil could not do by Roman persecution, he tried to do by
patronage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outward assault made the
church grow inwardly stronger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan
changed his tactics from persecution to protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There
was a time in the history of the church when it became an official institution
of the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State taxes supported it
and paid the pastors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
devastating for the church no longer was the salt in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not preaching the gospel that was a
stumbling block.</span></b></div>
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13. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works, and where thou
dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast
not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr,
who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“and
where [Satan] dwellest” – this had a special significance because they had many
heathen temples and Pergamos was the center for religious cults.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan’s
seat - literally Satan’s throne. This shows the influence Satan had in this
city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Satan’s seat refers to the great
altar of Zeus which stood high on the Acropolis and dominated the city.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Thou
holdest fast my name” – refers to their faithfulness to put Christ first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were keeping their eyes on Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hast
not denied my faith” – stability in the Word; learning and preserving the
doctrines of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Antipas
was my faithful martyr” – In the middle of the city was a large metal
bull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They heated it red hot and opened
uo the heated bull and threw Antipas inside and he burned to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was done to intimidate the believers.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In
spite of this, the church stayed true to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death of Antipas became an inspiration to
the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Where
Satan dwelleth” – this refers to the city of pagan temples, altars and idols.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
church perfectly pictures the spiritual unfaithfulness of the church as a
whole.</span></b></div>
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14. <span style="color: red;">But I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here
is the condemnation of the church by Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
doctrine of Balaam is given to us in Numbers 24, 25, and 31.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Balaam was a believer who was hindered from cursing the
children of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of his own will, he
cursed the people and things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Balaam had
a lust for money and because of this found another way to the Jews in a
jam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time Balaam would start to
curse the Jews, he would end up prophesying their glorious future.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Balaam advised Balac to neutralize Israel by getting them
out of fellowship with God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The doctrine of Balaam is the principle of neutralizing
believers by getting them out of fellowship with God by separating them from
the source of divine power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">His works caused them to get out of fellowship and stay out
of fellowship.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“to
eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication” – refers to eating
animals that were sacrificed to pagan gods, sex and immorality.</span></b></div>
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15. <span style="color: red;">So hast thou also them that hold the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
doctrine was the exultation of the clergy over the worshippers; a dictatorship
that allows little or no freedom.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“them
that hold the doctrine of the Nicalaitans, which thing I hate” – This is the
New Testament counterpart of the doctrine of Balaam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This involved immoral acts that was called
worship, and emotionalism in their services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
hates false doctrine.</span></b></div>
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16. <span style="color: red;">Repent; or else I will come unto
thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Repent;
or else I will come” – Jesus will come with discipline.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
Lord will destroy the church that follows false doctrines.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Some
of the worst sins in the Bible are mental attitude sins and sins of the tongue.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Be
careful not to kill with your tongue.</span></b></div>
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17. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a
new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Listen,
be alert and put into action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is to
every believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep on hearing.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is God’s assurance to the local church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
hidden manna is fellowship with Christ forever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Votes
in those days…if a person placed a white stone into a jar, he voted for that
person or position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a black stone was
cast, he voted against the person or position.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ
cast a white stone for you and you have been elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Christ has given us a white stone, we
will have a new name, a heavenly name.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">CHURCH AT THYATIRA (verses 18-29)</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Thyatira
was a city of Lydia and a trade center of the Lucas Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a center of commerce.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Thyatira
means continual sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was during
this time that the papacy instituted the doctrine of transubstantiation, that
each time the priest performed the mass, the wafer became the actual body of
Christ and the wine became His literal blood.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
continual sacrifice of Christ is heresy which puts our Lord to shame (Hebrews
6:6)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Symbolic
representation of this is made by the introduction of Jezebel in verse 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This heathen princess endeavored to unite
Judaism with her own pagan religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many ungodly practices and excesses in the church have tended to prostitute
the teachings which the church inherited from Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
weavers and potters had their headquarters there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
served as a military town and guard post for the famous city of Pergamos.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
wealth of the city came from the dyeing industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The purple dyes are what made this city
famous.The dye was so precious that a pound of this dye sold for 1,000 denari
(An ordinary man’s pay for one day’s work).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
are told that the water was so adapted to dying, that in no other place could
the scarlet cloth be so permanently and perfectly dyed.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
city was probably the least in size and importance of the seven cities.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It
was not a religious center, but those who dealt in brass, lead, and the dying
industries enjoyed business here.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
letter is the longest of the seven letters of Revelation. The church of
Thyatira represents the enlargement of the seeds of corruption which the devil
earlier introduced into churches.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
church must be very cautious not to allow false teachers to introduce false
doctrines into the purity of Christ’s teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do so is to become the church of Thyatira.</span></b></div>
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18. <span style="color: red;">¶ And unto the angel of the church
in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like
unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In
every letter, he begins by giving us a description of Himself – “who hath his
eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass.”</span></b></div>
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19. <span style="color: red;">I know thy works, and charity, and
service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more
than the first. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We
have His appraisal of the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Their
production is growing and increasing.</span></b></div>
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20. <span style="color: red;">Notwithstanding I have a few things
against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself
a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to
eat things sacrificed unto idols. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now
we have the criticism of the church.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Jezebel”
– female character in Thyatira who had both beauty and brains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jezebel was probably not her name, but it is
used for us to know the kind of person she was.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">She was a leader in the church and was allowed to teach and
deceive.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">People were more interested in her delivery than the
content of her message.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">She persuaded this church to forget doctrine and do those
things that had appeal.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">She persuaded them to enter into idol worship and this led
to fornication and immorality.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Religion had entered into this Christian church and she
represented religion infiltrating Christianity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">She had beauty, brains, and talent, and this movement
neutralized Christianity.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Churches owe a debt to godly women, but not to this type of
woman.</span></b></div>
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21. <span style="color: red;">And I gave her space to repent of
her fornication; and she repented not. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Space
to repent” – a very great principle of doctrine.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">God
gives people an opportunity to repent before discipline comes.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Even
though the grace of God held off the coming doom, she refused to repent.</span></b></div>
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22. <span style="color: red;">Behold, I will cast her into a bed,
and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they
repent of their deeds. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is God’s promise of judgment.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
basis of this judgment is false doctrine.</span></b></div>
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23. <span style="color: red;">And I will kill her children with
death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins
and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is the sin unto death. (1 John 5:16)</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice
it is for believers.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
24. <span style="color: red;">But unto you I say, and unto the
rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known
the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse is to the others who have not followed Jezebel “and have not followed the
false doctrine”</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
25. <span style="color: red;">But that which ye have already hold
fast till I come. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
verse refers to believers with true doctrine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“That
which ye have” – you have it now and will keep on having it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This group was not influenced by Jezebel’s
false doctrine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“hold
fast” – continue to hold until the end.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
power of the church is Bible doctrine. You must understand doctrine and live by
doctrine if you expect to have real power in the church.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
26. <span style="color: red;">And he that overcometh, and keepeth
my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is the assurance to this local church.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He
that overcometh” – believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you
enter the plan of God, you are a victor immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plan of God is, you are in Christ and He
is the victor.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Keepeth
my works” – you keep something that belongs to you.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
old sin nature produces human good and the Holy Spirit produces divine good.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“To
him will I give power over nations” – the power Christ will give to those who
rule and reign with Him during the 1,000 year reign.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
27. <span style="color: red;">And he shall rule them with a rod of
iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I
received of my Father. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Until
Christ returns and a perfect environment and a perfect government is
established; it is necessary for man to live by law and order.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Rod of iron” – refers to capital punishment. </span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">As
long as the old sin nature abides, it will be necessary to have capital
punishment.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If
government outlaws guns, criminals will find other weapons.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Shall
be broken” – refers to those who step out of line.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
28. <span style="color: red;">And I will give him the morning
star. </span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The
morning star” – refers to the occupation with Christ in eternity.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This
is describing happiness for those who rule and reign with Christ for all
eternity.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus
will provide a happiness not known to us today.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
29. <span style="color: red;">He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</span></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Open
your ears and let the spirit teach you.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Let
him hear” – this means every time a Bible class is taught, you should be there
to hear, learn and apply the doctrine.</span></b></div>
<div class="trail">
<br /></div>
<div class="trail">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
<div class="trail">
Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
<div class="trail">
Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
Lynchburg, VA: Liberty Press, 1978. Print.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-20976674216873116772012-10-18T09:30:00.000-07:002012-10-18T09:30:00.259-07:00Revelation - Chapter 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 48.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">A Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter
01</span></u></b></div>
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<i>1. ¶ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,
to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent
and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:</i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This serves as a notice to us that the Revelation here is
not a Revelation of John but a Revelation of Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John is not divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Divinity and deity belong to God alone.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice this is a Revelation not Revelation<u>s</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is only one revelation in the book and
this is Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Unto his servants.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- Every believer is in full-time Christian service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not limited to the pastor.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Things which must shortly come to pass” – these are the
things that we will study in this Revelation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are the events of “the latter days”, which will take place
suddenly.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Sent and signified it by his angel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Angels are used of God many times in the
Bible to communicate truth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Gabriel informing Mary of the birth of Christ – Luke
1:26-33.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Unto his servant John” – refers to the author of the
Revelation. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John also authored the Gospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, and
3 John.</span></b></div>
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<i>2. Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony
of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Who” – refers to John himself.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Bare record” – this means to give witness.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John began the Gospel of John in a similar way (John 1:1).</span></b></div>
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<i>3. ¶ Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words
of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time
is at hand. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We begin with the first “Blessed” of this book.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is a special blessing to those who read and hear this
book.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To the believer this book is a blessing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the unbeliever it is a cursing.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This book is a description of things that are to come to
all.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seven blessings spelled out in the book of Revelation:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who read and hear the message (1:3)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who die in the Lord (dying grace) (14:13)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who are alert to the coming of Christ (16:15)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who attend the marriage supper of the Lamb.
(19:19)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who have part in the first resurrection (20:6)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who keep the contents of this book (22:7)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For those who keep His commandments (22:14)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Such a promised blessing must indicate that this book is to
be read, heard, and its commands kept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For this reason it is inexcusable to declare the book of Revelation as
being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>non-understandable or
non-relevant.</span></b></div>
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<i>4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be
unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John was the human author.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“To the seven churches which are in Asia.” – Located in the
Roman province of Asia (modern Turkey), the seven churches are in a small area
when placed on a map, kind of in a circle.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">These churches had certain things in them that parallel the
trends we will find in the churches of the church age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will find conditions which exist in the
churches today.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which is” – a description of Christ in the present. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which was” – speaks of God in eternity past. He is without
beginning or end: chronologically, He is above time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which is to come” – speaks of the second advent of Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Seven spirits which are before his throne” – the essence
of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfection or completeness.
(Isaiah 11)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">There are those who interpret this as an allusion to the
Holy Spirit (Isa 11:2-3).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Others believe these were seven angels in places of high
privilege before the throne of God. (Rev. 3:1; 4:5; 5:6)</span></b></div>
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<i>5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and
the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“From Jesus Christ” – divine authorship. Christ is not only
the object of the book but the author of it as well.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Faithful witness.” – When Christ was on earth, He
perfectly revealed God the Father.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“First begotten.” – the first-born is the one who had
absolute rulership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the priest of
the family and received a double portion of the inheritance.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus Chirst is the absolute ruler in humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is prophet, priest and king.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Of the dead” – the first resurrection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Prince of the kings of the earth.” – Jesus became prince
of the kings by purchasing it by His death on the cross and His resurrection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Unto him that loved us.” – The word loved is present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an active participle and simply means
that He keeps on loving us to the end of time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Washed us” – refers to the cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means He loosed us/released us and it
refers to the time when we believed in Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This divind love that precipitated the divine plan for the Son of God to
give His life a ransom for our sins.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“From our sins in his own blood.” – This blood is always
presented as a figure to represent His spiritual death on the cross for our
sins.</span></b></div>
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<i>6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his
Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Hath made us kings.” – refers to the time of our salvation
when we were appointed kings forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has made us a “kingdom where we are priests unto God.” (1 Peter 2:9; Rev. 5:10)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And priests” – this is the priesthood of every believer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Glory and dominion” – the double portion each one
receives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This kingdom will soon become
a reality as the Revelation unfolds.</span></b></div>
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<i>7. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This refers to His second coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was received by a cloud into heaven (Acts
1:9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will come in the clouds of
heaven to receive His bride (1 Thess. 4:16-18).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Every eye will behold the brightness of His coming to a
dark world. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The reference to his second coming is not a secret coming
but a very public one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Matt.
24:30)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be no mistaking the
coming King!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Even so, Amen” – means I believe it.</span></b></div>
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<i>8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith
the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Alpha and Omega” – the first and last letters of the Greek
alphabet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Beginning and the ending” – He will keep on being Alpha
and Omega.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God was before all things
(Col. 1:17); nothing existed before Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is after all things (Ps 102:27); nothing will survive Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He is giving us enough information here about Himself so we
can truly know Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Which is, and which was, and which is to come” – this is
speaking of the eternal, everlasting God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The almighty” – the core qualities of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a tremendous statement about the
person and work of Christ, His eternality, His love for us, His substitutionary
atonement, His kingship, His priesthood, His sovereignty.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The first eight verses introduce us to the Lord Jesus
Christ who is the central figure of this book, the revelation of His unveiling.</span></b></div>
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<i>9. ¶ I John, who also am your brother, and companion in
tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle
that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus
Christ. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This verse provides us with critical information for this
book:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the author, his identity, place of
writing, and the purpose for the author being on that island.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Who also am your brother.” – John was the beloved disciple
and the last of the apostles, but he refers to himself as your brother.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Companion” – means partner.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“In tribulations” – refers to suffering and trials.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Domitian, who was the emperor of Rome and ruled from A.D.
81-96, was a wicked man and a hater of Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He began to kill and destroy; however, he was
advised not to kill John who was the last of the apostles and was best known
and the most beloved disciple in the whole world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If John were killed, the whole Christian
world would revolt against Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead
of killing him, John was exiled to a little island in the Aegean Sea (Isle of
Patmos) to rot and die like an animal.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“In the kingdom” – refers to being part of the Lord’s
kingdom.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Patience” – means resting your case in Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Isle of Patmos” – a rocky island about 20 miles out from
Ephesus in the Aegean Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was about
10 miles long and 3 miles wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
used as a Roman prison.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“For the word of God” – John was explaining why he was
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could read it as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because of the word of God</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Testimony of Jesus Christ” – this refers to the reason
John was a prisoner of Rome.</span></b></div>
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<i>10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind
me a great voice, as of a trumpet.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I was in the Spirit” – John indicates that he fell into a
trancelike state of supernatural revelation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was not an unusual circumstance when God revealed Himself to His
servants.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Ezekiel – Ezk 2:2; 3:12, 14</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Peter – Acts 1:1-11; 11:5</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Paul – Acts 22:17-18</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“On the Lord’s day” – commonly used to refer to Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nowhere in Scripture does the Lord ’s Day
refer to Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day of Christ’s
resurrection is consistently called “the first day of the week” and never the
Lord’s day (Mt 28:1; Mk 16:2,9; Lk 24:1; Jn 20:1,19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 16:2).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Every day is the Lord ’s Day; He is Master of all and to be
worshipped and served equally on them all. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This indicates an elongated period during which God judges
the earth and rules over it. John was projected supernaturally into the future
to view the period of judgment which has been promised through divine revelation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Heard behind me a great<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>voice.” – a voice like the blast of a trumpet.</span></b></div>
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<i>11. Saying, <span style="color: red;">I am Alpha and Omega, the
first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the
seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto
Laodicea.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John was commanded to give this message to the seven
churches.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The list of churches here was not all the churches that
existed then, but these seven represented them all.</span></b></div>
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<i>12. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And
being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Verses 12 – 16 provide us with a description of Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When John first began to receive the divine revelation from
God, he heard the voice of God and turned to face his Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What he saw was astounding.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Voice that spake” – suggests that Jesus had spoken to John
often before on earth.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“and being turned” – Suggests that Jesus was behind John.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I saw seven golden candlesticks.” – what these 7 golden
candlesticks mean will be revealed in verse 20.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Golden” means they were burning and indicates the churches
were in operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, their light
will be threatened.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In the Old testament tabernacle and temple, one of the
essential pieces of furniture was the 7-branched candlestick or lampstand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears here that there are just one
7-branched lampstand for the Lord Jesus is said to stand <u>in the midst of the
seven candlesticks</u>.</span></b></div>
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<i>13. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto
the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the
paps with a golden girdle. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This gives the Lord a direct relationship to each of the
golden lampstands, which are identified as the seven churches in verse 20.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Son of man” – refers to the humanity of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John knew it, John was standing at the Mount
of Olives when Jesus ascended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John was
one of the first to see the resurrected Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ was wearing a long robe. Indicative of a priest or
judge. (Not like the Romans; they wore a short robe called a toga.)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ was wearing a golden breastplate. This means Christ
was appearing as the Great High Priest.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus referred to Himself as the Son of man about 83 times
in the Scriptures. This may be His favorite name.</span></b></div>
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<i>14. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as
snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">White hair suggests the eternity of His character. White
stands for perfection of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It corresponds to the description of the Ancient of Days in
Daniel 7:9.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“His eyes were as a flame of fire.” - indicates His sermon
was one of judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fire speaks of
judgment. (Daniel 7:13-14)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Judgment to the churches, judgment of tribulation and final
judgment.</span></b></div>
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<i>15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a
furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“His feet like unto fine brass” – literally of burnished
bronze; symbolizes divine judgment as in the brazen altar of the Old Testament
where sacrifice for sin was made (Ex. 38:30)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Voice as the sound of many waters” – booming voice of the
Almighty God in judgment; voice that pronounced doom.</span></b></div>
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<i>16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his
mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth
in his strength. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He had” – a present, active participle meaning that He
kept on holding the seven staffs in His hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Seven stars” – the seven pastors of the seven
churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being in the right hand places
them in the place of honor.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Twoedged sword” – described in Rev. 19:15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Used by Roman soldiers as the principle offensive
weapon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Used in a stabbing rather than a
slicing action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was more effective in
causing death.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is the Lord judging the nations at the second
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indicates devastating judgment
which will fall upon those with whom He is engaged in battle.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“Countenance was as the sun” – the brilliance of His glory.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Christ gives glory, and all glory in believers is a
reflection of Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the glory of
Christ shines on a believer, you have a reflected glory.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Grace says we reflect glory.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<i>17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he
laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, <span style="color: red;">Fear not;
I am the first and the last:</span></i></div>
<div class="listings">
<span style="color: red;"> </span> </div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.” – The glory
and majesty of the Lord are overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John now views Him as not hs Saviour and friend but his Sovereign and
King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He fainted.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He laid his right hand upon me…saying Fear not” – The Lord
quiets his fears by reminding him that He is indeed alive and will live forevermore.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“I am the first and the last.” – Jesus identified
Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<div class="listings">
<i>18. <span style="color: red;">I am he that liveth, and was
dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and
of death.</span></i></div>
<div class="listings">
<span style="color: red;"> </span> </div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“He that liveth” - He is alive, in sovereign control. He is
victorious.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“And was dead” – refers to a point of time when Christ went
to the cross and died.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Have the keys of hell and of death.” – Christ has the
authority over death and hell. Simply
stated to assure John that the Lord is sovereign over physical death and over
hell, the life after death.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<i>19. <span style="color: red;">Write the things which thou hast
seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;</span></i></div>
<div class="listings">
<span style="color: red;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Having now been prepared by God, John is commissioned to
write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will follow a divine
outline…that outline we discussed in the introduction.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Things which thou hast seen</span></b></div>
<div class="listings" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Things which are (Chapters 2 & 3)</span></b></div>
<div class="listings" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Things which will be hereafter (Chapters 4 – 22)</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<i>20. <span style="color: red;">The mystery of the seven stars
which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The
seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks
which thou sawest are the seven churches.</span></i></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
<div class="listings">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The doctrine here is the doctrine of the church.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It was a mystery in the Old Testament because the church
was never mentioned in the Old Testament.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“The mystery of the seven stars” – represents a new
category of leadership, the pastor-teacher</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">“seven golden candlesticks” – the seven churches of Asia</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The church is to preach the gospel to the whole world.</span></b></div>
<div class="listings">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The condition of these seven churches shows the trend of
the churches of all the church age.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">References:</span></u></b></div>
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Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
Florida: Thee WFBI Press, 1999. Print.</div>
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Study of the Book of Revelation</span></b></div>
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<i>1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,
to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent
and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: </i></div>
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<i>2. Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony
of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Revelation of Jesus
Christ…not the apostle John.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An unveiling of
Jesus Christ.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Where all the ends
are tied together….</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We have a listing of
more titles for our Savior than any other book in the Bible:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
Christ (1:1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
faithful witness (1:5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The first
begotten of the dead (1:5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Prince
of the kings of the earth (1:5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Alpha
and Omega (1:8)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #CDDDAC; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 127; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The first and the last (1:17)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Son of man (1:13)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Son of God (2:18)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The keeper
of David’s keys (3:7)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #E6EED5; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 63; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The keeper of the keys of hell and death (1:18)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #E6EED5; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 63; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Lion of the tribe of Judah (5:5)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #E6EED5; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 63; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Root of David (5:5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The slain
Lamb (5:6)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #CDDDAC; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 127; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The angry Lamb (6:16, 17)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The tender Lamb (7:17)</span></div>
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<td style="background: #CDDDAC; border-bottom: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 127; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-bottom-themetint: 191; mso-border-left-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-left-themetint: 191; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-right-themetint: 191; mso-border-top-alt: solid #B3CC82 1.0pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent3; mso-border-top-themetint: 191; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.7pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Our Lord (11:8)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The man
child (12:5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The King of saints (15:3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Faithful and True (19:11)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Word of God (19:13)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The King
of kings (19:16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Lord of lords (19:16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The beginning and the end (22:13)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The bright and morning star (22:16)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The number 7 and 12 are
predominant in the book of Revelation.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The number 7 =
completeness or perfection.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 spirits (1:4)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 stars (1:16)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 lamps (4:5)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 seals (5:1)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 horns (5:6)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 eyes (5:6)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 angels (8:2)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 trumpets (8:2)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 thunders (10:3)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 heads (12:3)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 crowns (12:3)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 plagues (15:1)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 vials (17:1)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 mountains (17:9)</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">7 kings (17:10)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The number 12 =
divine authority and power.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12,000 from each of
the 12 tribes (7:4-8)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A crown of 12 stars
(12:1)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12 gates (21:12)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12 angels (21:12)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12 foundations
(21:14)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">12,000 furlongs
(21:16)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Promised
blessing.</span></u></b></div>
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<i>3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blessed is he that
readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things
which are written therein: for the time is at hand.</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some say they can’t understand Revelation…nowhere in God’s Word does
it say we will fully understand all that is included.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God doesn’t expect us to understand it
perfectly.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He doesn’t promise that we will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What He promises is a blessing by reading the words of Revelation, or
hearing them, and by keeping the things written there.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If we are promised a special blessing for reading it, apparently
the book must be helpful to those who do read it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Authorship.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i>4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be
unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The apostle John is identified as the author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a central figure among the churches of
Asia Minor.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Place and date of writing.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Domitian, who was the emperor of Rome and ruled from A.D. 81-96, was
a wicked man and a hater of Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He began to kill and destroy; however, he was advised not to kill John
who was the last of the apostles and was best known and the most beloved
disciple in the whole world.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Instead of killing him, John was exiled to a little island in the
Aegean Sea (Isle of Patmos) to rot and die like an animal.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">This Island was used as a Roman prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is estimated that John spent about 18
months there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">About 60 years had passed since John had stood at the foot of the
cross where Jesus died for our sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John was about 100 years old when he wrote down the revelation that day. </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">After he was released from the Isle of Patmos (after Domitian had
died) he brought the book of Revelation back to Ephesus and it was circulated
among the churches.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The divine outline.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Past, present and future.</span></b></div>
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<i>19. <span style="color: red;">Write the things which thou hast
seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The second division is recorded in chapters 2 and 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These present things refer to that which
takes place during the age of the church.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The final division is recorded in chapters 4 to the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These chapters describe the events which will
take place after the Church Age has become history.</span></b><br />
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Clark, Neal. <i>Survey of the Book of Revelation.</i> Pensacola,
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Falwell, Jerry. <i>Liberty Commentary on the New Testament.</i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Felix Titling"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Heart Marked by Purity</span></u></b></div>
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Write down what you
think the definition of purity is.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Corinthians
7:34</span></i></b></div>
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God has given you
the power of the Holy Spirit to enable you to stay pure, to resist the flesh,
and to fortify you with His self-control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Galatians
5:22-23</span></i></b>)</div>
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God has entrusted
you with this most precious possession <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your purity!</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>PHYSICAL</u></b>
purity is something very special and should be preserved at all costs.</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Your
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>MENTAL</u></b> purity is where it all
starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you think greatly
determines how you behave.</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Your
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>SPIRITUAL</u></b> purity deals with
your heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Christian desires purity. </div>
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God makes it very
clear in the Bible that He wants His women to be pure.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Titus 2:3-5</span></i></b></div>
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God specifically
instructs the older women in the church and in the faith to teach and train the
younger to be pure.</div>
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God calls all
Christians to be pure and to <u>keep</u> themselves pure.</div>
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The word pure means
- without stain, to be free from pollution, to be clean, and to be innocent and
guiltless.</div>
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What are some
examples of pollution that we are talking about here?</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Sexual
sin</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>foul
language</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>attitudes</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>dress</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>what
we participate in…anything that gives the appearance of evil (not of God)</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Proverbs 3:3</span></i></b>
- Let’s pray that God’s Holy Spirit and God’s Holy Word will impress upon you
the changes you must make regarding your own purity and your view of the
importance of your purity.</div>
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Pray bout the
instruction each scripture sends to your heart about your purity:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Timothy 5:22</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Philippians 4:8</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">2 Timothy 2:22</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Titus 1:15</span></i></b></div>
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Now let’s talk a
little bit about Christian Standards, what they are, where they compare to our
current standards, and where we need make changes.</div>
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Christian
Standards:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dating</b></div>
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When should we date?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t allowed to date until I was 16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My personal opinion is anything younger than
that is way too young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sixteen is still
too young.</div>
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I know that is not the “popular”
viewpoint, but let’s think about the responsibilities that come with dating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What age are you truly mentally mature to
take on this responsibility?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may
differ for each person.</div>
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Choose to remain morally pure no matter
what….no matter what the pressure of the world puts on you.</div>
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This choice is solely yours and it must
be made before you begin dating and before each date you go on…..no matter your
age.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Dress/Appearance</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Timothy 2:9</span></i></b></div>
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When I see girls dressed in a
suggestive way, I not only turn my head away, but I pray for them.</div>
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Obviously there is a deeper issue --
they are looking for affirmation in the wrong ways.</div>
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My question is this, is that how you
want to be seen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a sex object?</div>
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Or would you rather be known and
respected for your character, not just your outward beauty.</div>
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I love seeing women who dress in a way
that is not disrespectful to themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ladies, God tells us to be holy and pure with our bodies.</div>
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Even though our culture tells us it’s
OK to wear suggestive clothing, I want to challenge you to walk a different
road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There are plenty of ways to be “hip and
trendy” and to look great without being seductive or flirtatious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Let’s be holy and pure and modest in
our dress.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Mind</b></div>
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Where do impure thoughts and interests
come from?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Galatians 5:19</span></i></b> - the flesh.</div>
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Where else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- the world, TV, movies, magazines, etc.</div>
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What we see and read - the information
is then planted in our minds.</div>
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What are we to think about instead of sensuous
and worldly thoughts?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Philippians 4:8</span></i></b></div>
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God also tells us that our impure
thoughts reveal an impure heart.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Matthew 15:19</span></i></b></div>
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What do you think about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think about others?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it pure?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Psalm 119:9-11</span></i></b></div>
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Do not let any unwholesome talk come
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What are we to talk about instead?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Ephesians 4:29</span></i></b></div>
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Whether we admit it or not, what we
allow ourselves to think will sooner or later be expressed by our mouths.</div>
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Our thoughts lead to words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Matthew 12:34</span></i></b></div>
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Just like the song:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh be careful little eyes what you see…Oh be
careful little ears what hear….Oh be careful little mouths what you say…</div>
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Set your standards, and set them high.</div>
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What are some standards that you can
think of that need to be raised?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
yourself, your daughter, your son, your sister, your brother…</div>
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Your physical purity is important to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?</div>
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Because…</div>
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Your body is a temple. - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Corinthians
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Your body is not your own. - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Corinthians
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Your body is bought with a price. - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Corinthians
6:20</span></i></b></div>
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Your body is to honor and glorify God.
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6:20</span></i></b></div>
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</span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Thessalonians 4:3-5</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Word About the World</span></u></b></div>
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The Bible urges you
and I - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Romans
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It’s soooo easy for
us to be conformed to the standards and morals of our society.</div>
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Therefore…</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Romans 12:2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1
John 2:15<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>2 Timothy 2:22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Thess. 4:5</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">John 17:14, 16</span></i></b></div>
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God has a plan for
your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is it?</div>
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God’s plan for you
is that you keep yourself pure in body, mind, and spirit and that you serve
Him.</div>
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God is to be the
consuming priority of your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are
His child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore you are to live for
Him and according to His Word.</div>
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You are to live the
way He wants you to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Proverbs 31:30</span></i></b></div>
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Forgiveness - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Romans 3:23</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Confess your sins - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 John 1:9</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Forsake your sins - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Proverbs 28:13</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>The Eight A’s:</u></b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A</span>cknowledge God’s standard.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>ssume
God’s standard as your standard.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>dmit
any and all sin against God’s standard.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>void
compromising situations.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>void
compromising people.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>sk
for accountability.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>cknowledge
the consequences impurity reaps.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span>spire
to a life of obedience - a holy life has a voice!</div>
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asked?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What answer is given?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is God’s message to your heart?</div>
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428957873948749152.post-41049885867069172212012-09-20T16:48:00.001-07:002012-09-20T16:48:21.198-07:00The Forefathers Monument: Morality<a href="http://kirkcameron.com/2012/08/the-forefathers-monument-morality/">The Forefathers Monument: Morality</a>The recipe for restoration of America begins with Faith!Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471661964536692924noreply@blogger.com0