My trust is in you, oh my God. My trust is in you. Praise God. I really felt the anointing tonight. I was worshiping. Praise God. Thank you, Lord.

Did you know that we're on the threshold of seeing great wonders take place?

I think that once this u door is open, we will look back in in the days like today and say, "Wow, what a different world it is from what it is now to what it is then. Hallelujah. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we thank you for tonight. As we begin this uh lesson, Father God, and in the book of Revelation, I pray that you would uh grant us ears to hear. Open our spiritual ears, Father God. And open our minds and our heart that we may receive and understand, not just be hearers of the word, but doers, Father God. And I pray, Father, in the name of Jesus, that uh you will give us the ability, Father God, to to be encouraged and strengthened by the fact that your word is true, Father God, that as we come to this final book of the Bible where all of the loose ends are tied in and where everything makes sense and comes together, Father God, that our faith may grow stronger and bolder, Father God, that we may prepare, Father God, for the events that are soon coming upon this world in which we're living in. And that like Paul says that they will not catch us as those who sleep. He said those who sleep, they get drunk at night, but that we may be wide awake, Father God, and ready for the great wonders that you said that you promised that you would do in the last days. Thank you now for this opportunity to teach your word and thank you, Father God, for we open our hearts to receive it in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus.

Praise God. I don't want to stop worshiping.

I was enjoying it. Praise God.

In uh Revelation chapter 1 verse one, we read the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him Jesus to show his servants things which must shortly take place. And he sent and signified it by his sen to his servant John who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ to all things that he saw. And then this is the part I want you to pay attention. Verse three, blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near. There is a blessing. This is the only uh book of the Bible that I know of where specific blessing is given to the people that read it. The reason why is because the Bible says it is true knowledge that the righteous is delivered. Knowing uh what's going on when things began to happen can make the difference between life and death. And so we have a great blessing that comes um uh through reading the book of Revelation. Now the book of revelation it is hard to understand simply because we have made it hard. We we need to understand that we have made the book of revelation hard to understand because um when you are looking at something that you don't know what it says and you have to understand the prophecy that was given in the old time. uh in order for us to understand them, we have to get closer and closer to the events. In other words, the closer we get to the end time, the more the things are going to make sense. So, the people that live centuries before us who didn't have the revelations and and the ability to know the things that we know now uh uh deal with what they knew, how they knew it. And the problem with that is that uh when a new revelation comes in, if your mind is set in an old way, you're not going to receive it. And so it is easier to teach the book of Revelation to somebody that doesn't have an opinion on it than it is to somebody that already has it on his mind. I struggled this for years. If you get the book, I I have a testimony there at the beginning of how uh I came in into having to put away all of the old things that I had learned about the book of Revelation and allow God actually empty my mind and says, "Okay, Lord, you show me." Because if he come with any preconceived notions, you're you're going to miss it. And this is how my mind was open uh to receive the revelation. Now let me give you a few points before we get into a few of the details. In order to understand the book of revelation is not hard. It's just it it is the the closing chapter of the Bible as if it were. So in order to fully understand the the book of revelation, you have to understand what the Bible is about. You know, for those of you back in the 70s when you had the book Roots that came out and it was like a series, you know, or now like they have Rocky four or Rocky five or Rocky six. You go see one of those movies and you miss the first three or four, you miss half of the movie because you you didn't connect to the other part. So that's that's the idea of the book of Revelation. You need to understand that from Genesis all the way to um third John and Jude before you get to Revelation everything there is going to come together and make sense. And so we need to have a general knowledge of of what happened on the past. Now the second thing that you need to understand that will make this this will make all of the difference on the world to understand in the book of revelation is that the book of revelation is giving us the description of things that are taking place in two different dimensions at the same time. This is very important we get this. If we get the basic we'll understand it. Now, if you see a movie, for example, the movie Pearl Harbor, and and the screen plate is is is writing as to what's happening in Pearl Harbor, but at the same time, they're telling you what's happening in Tokyo and what's happening in Washington. Now, we cannot be in three places at the same time. So if you're going to watch a movie about an event that's taking place in different places, the screenplay writer, what he will do, he will focus on one area first and then he'll make it to know in a way that when he goes to another scene, they let you know that it's taking place at the same time of what you just saw. In other words, so you can see what was taking place here and what was taking place there at the same time. But since we're human and we're limited to just one scope at a time and that's how we you need to uh that's how we need to understand the book of revelation. God is given us what is taking place on the earth. So he's given us a physical revelation but at the same time he's given us what is taking place in the spiritual realm and this is a spiritual revelation. So once you understand that things happen in the spirit and then when things happen in the spirit they have a consequence or a result that takes place here on the earth then you'll see that the book of revelation makes all perfect sense because God is letting you know what's happening over here is because of what's happening over there. A great way to understand the book of revelation is by reading the first chapter of the book of Job. Job, for example, is happy. He has uh 10 children. He's he's wealthy and everything. And then the book starts by saying that one day the sons of God went to the presence of God. And Satan showed up and a discussion took place between Satan and God. And they were discussing Job and his life. Now Job is here on earth and he has hasn't got a famous idea what's happening in heaven right but what happened in heaven had a direct effect upon Job because God said okay you can take away his property and what happened all of the sudden thieves come in and still whirlwind comes in all kinds of things is happening so you see this is how the book of revelation it is written God is giving us a revelation of what's happened what's happening on the um on on the spiritual and then we see the consequences or the result of what's taking place in the spiritual and the physical. So the key to understanding the book of revelation is that the revelation is twofold. We are given the things that are happening at the same time in two different dimensions. Now, so how do we understand it? And and if you got the book, I got it uh there. But the way the revelation, the Lord gave me the revelation is in order for you to understand things that are taking place at the same time, you need to make a timeline. In other words, I need to know because I need to uh uh align it together. When was it that Job lost uh uh all of his good? That's when God said to Satan, "Okay, you can you can take his goods." Then Satan goes back to God and God says, "Well, what did I tell you? You took away all of his goods and and and he didn't deny me." And then he said, "Well, you can take his children." And then they come in take his children. And then after that, Satan said, "Well, skin for skin, you know, I mean, he he's after his own flesh." So he says okay you can't attack his flesh but you can't take his life. So you see you can make a timeline of the things that happened to Job in accordance to what was happening in heaven. So we need to make a timeline. We need to understand how the book of revelation gives us a timeline. How do you make a timeline? Through a chronology of events. So basically if I can understand because I am a physical person. I live in a physical realm. If I can understand the physical chronology of events that are taking place and I can align it with the spiritual chronology, then I can make sense of things. You see, this is when the the book of Revelation will come alive to you when you're able to connect them together. Now, as we begin, uh the book of Revelation begins with an introduction. And the introduction goes from verse one to verse 7. We read the first three talking about Jesus. Then John says that um uh that he's writing this letter to the seven churches which are in Asia. That's on verse four. And he blesses them. He says, "Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come in from the seven spirits who are before his throne and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us kings and priests to his God and father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. These six verses

compile the whole history of the Bible. Notice that it said from him who is, who was, and is to come. That's God. And from the seven spirits, that's the seven dispensation that have been covered by God. And then from Jesus Christ, the faithful one, the one who washed us by his blood and made us king and priest. So this is a a a the sixth verses is talking about the six,000 years. This is this is very important because we're dealing with timeline. Remember, we need a chronology of physical events that we understand. So we can align it with the spiritual chronology. Why? Because when we make the proper alignment, we'll know according to the book of Revelation, where are we living in? What part of the book of Revelation are we in today? That is what makes us blessed. That's what gets us ready. And we're going to find that out because we're going to follow it a step by step by how it does. Now, not notice, and this is the key. Seven is always the day of rest. As you know, there are uh uh 6,000 years, six days of work. And then on the seventh year, we enter into the kingdom rest, which is what the book of Revelation will focus on, entering into the day of rest or the thousand years reign of Christ. If you read at the end, I think it's chapter 21 or 22. Six times, the writer says, "And he will rule for 1,000 years." There's going to be a 1,000 years rule. And we're going to be with Jesus with our race, physical body. Notice how it says there, the first born from the dead. Why would Jesus be called the first born from the dead? Jesus is different than everybody else in the fact that Jesus already has his glorified body. We are kings and priests with him. We're sitting together right now with him in heavenly places, but our physical body is still here on the earth and it's still corrupted and it's still uh uh frail and it still fails. But when Jesus Christ blows that trumpet and we're resurrected, we're going to be like him. When we see him, we're going to be like, we're going to get a new body. He's the firstborn from the dead. Meaning, he has the first human physical body that has been transformed. And it doesn't run on blood anymore. The kingdom of God doesn't have flesh and blood, but he has flesh and bones. Because Jesus said when he rose, he said, "Touch me and fill me." You see that I'm not a ghost. I got flesh and bones. But he had no blood. his blood which is where the life was offered in the throne in the holy of holies in heaven and that is a guaranteed of a new life for us before God because the blood was poured on the mercy seat and the mercy seat was above the law of God and the law says all the sinner shall surely die so the blood covers that now our life is guaranteed by the very blood of Jesus this is why once you're born again you're already guaranteed in God that you're there we're not there yet he's coming he's going to transform But that is the blessed hope or the Bible calls it. And notice that that comes in at the end of the sixth day and into the seventh day. Now notice verse seven. Now I don't deal with this in the book because in the book I'm dealing with the framework. But here I got the freedom to to set things up better. In verse seven, this is what the book of Revelation is about. Behold, he is coming with clouds, and every eye will see him, even they who pierce him, and all of the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so, amen. The theme of the book at the beginning is Jesus's coming. And you'll see that he comes first in the air or the clowns at the beginning of this seven-year period and then he'll come at the end on a white horse. And then that's when he will take over rulership over the earth and he'll rule it for a thousand years. But for seven years he's going to judge three basic uh entities of people. When see everything God created is in seven. We need to understand that seven is always rest and in the beginning. When God created Adam and Eve, they were created and this is all in the book. When you read it, if you have it, you'll see it. When God created Adam and Eve, they were on the state of what is called innocence. Innocent. They were like children. We're we're all like that. When you're a kid, you're a child, you run around naked, you don't know. You're innocent. you have no concept uh a self-concept of of shame or guilt or anything else. Then when they parttook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they became self-conscious or selfaware. Immediately they realized that they were naked and they felt shame. This is called the the dispensation of conscience. Conscience went all the way until the day of the flood. If you read when God judges the world, he says that every thought of every human on the face of the earth was constantly evil. The conscience was gone. I mean, man was so because so much demonic infestation was at that time. So, the dispensation of innocence was judged when God said to Adam and Eve, "Get out of the garden and you can never come back in." See, we can never go back to heaven in the state of innocence. We go to heaven in full knowledge now of good and evil. We know about evil because we here and we know how bad we are. We know if we you push the right buttons or the wrong button that that we can. So, so we're very much aware that the only way we make it to heaven is because of his grace and because of his mercy and because of one day he's going to kill this body of flesh. You see, when Jesus appear, you're going to shade like a leaf. You're going to be so scared like you never been. The very first time you glimpse any type of holiness or anything, Daniel, whoever it was, they fall down to the ground shaking like dead. Our physical bodies are so corrupt that any glimpse of any holiness causes us to fall apart. I mean coming on glue. That's what Isaiah said. He beheld the Lord and the Trinity of glory said, "Behold, I am undone." Is is on glue. you know the atoms are held together by by this thing and and and when you see the holiness of God you just fall apart. That's what he was talking about. So we need to understand that then God judge innocence. God judge conscience. Now the Bible tells us in the New Testament that our conscience or our mind is emnity against God. This is why you say, "I am healed." And there's a little voice on the back of your head say, "No, you're not." You say, "Oh, I I worship you, Lord Jesus." And no, you don't. You're a hypocrite. And this is why we always have this battle. Unless you have the mind of Christ. Hebrews says, "Sprinkle in your mind with the blood of Jesus." When that turkey says, "No, you're not." I said, "Yes, I am." And guess what? You're not going where I'm going. I'm going to heaven. and thou's going to stay here in this hell. You're not coming with me. You tell that that that that mind that opposes you or that mind that resists you. Why? Because we have the mind of Christ. And the mind of Christ is that he loves us. He gave himself for us. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And when that trumpet blows, everything negative, everything contrary, everything against is gone, dead, burned. It says we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to be tested by fire. Every word, every thought, every deed, every action, every reaction, everything that ever happen is going to be judged is going to be burned by fire. And the only thing that's going to survive that fire is called jewels, silver, and and gold. Things that can be refined. What is that? Faith, hope, and love. Corinthians 1 Corinthians 13:30. There are three things that remain. Faith, hope, and love. And the greatest is love. He that loves us and gave himself for us. That's what the introduction says. He who loved us and gave himself for us and washed us with his blood. That remains hallelujah cannot be taken. Now why is that important? Now notice in verse seven that he says and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Now you figure you'd be glad to see Jesus coming. Well, that depend which Jesus you're waiting for. If you're waiting for the little Jesus in the manger hidden some place and this wimpsy little guy, he comes back. He comes as a judge. Here comes the judge and he's going to rule. He's going to do away with sin. That's what he's coming. So that's why he says the the the the nations of the world will mourn. Now look at hold your place there and go to Revelation chapter 6 and look at verse 14. Now why this is important because this is the result of when the sixth seal was open. Revelation 6 verse 14. He said, "The sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountain, and said to the mountains, and to the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb. For the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" So you see that right there on the first seven verses we just read, we're being introduced to the return of Jesus Christ in chapter 7. So this gives us a key. And you see if you listen to to what the regular teaching is about revelation, which I listened to for years, they try to make it all a chronology like you have chapter 1, two, three, and then four follows and then five and then six and then seven. So in that mindset, nothing fits. But if you take chapter 1, two, and three as the physical revelation, as I'm going to show you now, and then you take chapters four, five, and six as describing the same period of time, but from the spiritual view, when you come to chapter 7, they all come together and they make perfect sense because God first give you the physical revelation of what's taking place. He begins with the physical because that's where under that's what we understand. And then he moves on next to the spiritual revelation and he tells you, you want to know why things are happening in the physical like this? Because of what's taking place in the physical. And then in chapter seven, everything comes to place. And now look what happens. Look at verse eight. Verse eight. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end sayaith the Lord who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. This is the the the completion of the revelation. So that we have on the first introduction a many prophetic Bible or or account if I could say of the event that are going to take place in the book. Now to begin with the framework, how do I know now with this knowledge that some chapters are written to the physical revelation and some are written to give us a spiritual revelation. How do I know which chapter is talking about what, right? Because that's the first thing we have to establish. Okay, now look at this. John begins to speak and he says, 'I John, this is Revelation 1:9, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus. Now notice that John is saying, I am in a physical place. I am in a Patmos is there. You can go over there to uh Turkey right now. Patmos is an island that is off of Greece and off of Turkey and you can take a boat and you can go there. They even have a monastery where it's supposed that that John was there. Now he says, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a vo a loud voices on a trumpet." Now notice that John is in a physical place and he is going to be given a spiritual revelation. That means that he's going to be shown something spiritually. And what is it that he's going to be shown about the Lord's day? See, people read that and say, "Oh, the Lord's day, Sunday." That didn't begin until 300 years after John died. They their their Lord's day back over there, they met on on Saturdays on the on the synagogues and they worship every day. That's why Paul says, "You can worship anytime you want to." This definition of what we call today the Lord's day. This is something that tradition didn't make up until 300 years later. So the Lord's day that he's talking about is the day of the Lord, the end of time, the seven-year period when God brings the completion of all of these things. You see, God already judged um uh innocence because we can never go back in innocent. God already judged conscience when he flooded the world. But did you know that when the human governments led a rebellion against God and they built a tower by a man named Nimrod, God did not judge them. You know what God did? He confused their language and scattered them. God had told them, "Scatter yourselves." The reason why they had to scatter themselves around the world because after the flood, the oceans were very, very low and all of the continents were still connected by land bridges. And God wanted them to spread out and cover the entire world. They wanted to make a name for themselves. So they stayed in one place. So what God did is confuse their language, judge them and cause them to scatter themselves. So the the human governments or the kingdoms of this world have never been judged yet. Then God came to Abraham and said since man cannot save himself in innocence, man cannot save himself because of his conscience is so messed up and he cannot save himself by the laws that he makes. So God introduced something that was called the promise. God made a man Abraham. He was his parents were moon worshippers. They were in a place where Iraq is today uh around that area. That's where Abraham was. God says to Abraham, "Get out of this idolattors and I'll bring you out. I'm going to make a covenant with you." Now, Abraham took his dad with him and everything. So, God had to wait until he died and all of the things. Finally, God brings him into the promised land and God enters into a covenant with his men. God makes a promise to a man. He was like a friend with Abraham. He says, "Out of your seed, all of the nations of the world are going to be blessed." He says you are going to have a son and through that son of yours I'm going to bless the entire world. Now out of a out of Abraham came two dispensation. One was physical and one was spiritual. This is why it's so important to understand this from that nature because God took Abraham and says I want you to look at the sand of the seashore. Your descendants is going to be like the sands of the seashore. That's the physical generation. Go to the beach, you got sand. You get sand everywhere. And then he takes him out at night and says, "Now look at the stars. See if you can count them. Your descendants are going to be as the stars in the sky." That's the spiritual. Israel or the Jewish nation are part of the physical promise that God made to Abraham. We the descendants of Abraham in the spirit are the heirs of God according to Abraham in the spiritual realm. So then God listen to this God has already judged innocent and God has already judged conscience but God has never judged the human governments. God has never judged Israel and God has never judged the church. And how is God going to judge them? According to his promises, according to his word. So at the end time, listen to this, God is going to bring together all of the nations in the world of the world into one form of like one world government. Why? Because that's what they were when they first rebelled against God. And they were building a tower going up to heaven. And you today you have a United Nation that has a tower and that's where they all sin. But then God said to Israel, because you violated my Sabbath, because you see everything there, everything in the Bible points to the thousand-year day of rest. Hebrews chapter 4 says they did not enter the rest because of unbelief. And he says you be careful or the same thing can happen to you. Everything in the Bible is you got to make it to the day of rest. Whatever it takes, hang by your fingernails if you have to make it. Keep believing on Jesus. You got to make it into the day of rest. So you see the Israelites because of failing to keep the Sabbath day, God through Daniel says, "I'm going to judge you for 70* 7 490 years. Since you did not give the land rest every seventh year, the Jews were supposed to not plant. They were supposed to trust in God to give him food. You know, if you're a farmer, you know, if you don't plant, you don't eat. So God says, "On the sixth year, I will give you plenty of crops so you don't have to work on the seventh." Because they violated that. God took him 70 years. That's what Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar was about. Took him out of the land for 70 years to give the land 70 years of rest that they had cheated God for 490 years. They had not kept the Sabbath. So God took him out of the land for 70 years. That's why when Daniel is in Babylon and he's reading the promise, he reads the book of Jeremiah where Jeremiah says, "God after 70 years is going to send them back." And Daniel gets all excited. And then the angel tells Daniel, God has appointed a judgment for your people for 490 years. But listen to this. After 483 years, Messiah is going to come and he's going to be cut off. And that's why Jesus came. Exactly 483 years after the Babylon captivity and he got cut off and died. So that means there's seven years that Israel was never judged for. Guess what? When the nations of the world came together, what was their first act they did? They voted in to bring Israel back as a nation. So, in 1948, May 15, I think it was, Israel became a nation after being out of existence for 2,000 years. Now, God has the nations of the world coming together and it has Israel back in the land, yet unbelieving, but yet they're there in the land. And the third thing is the church. Did you know that the church through the middle ages lost all kinds of their God has always had a remnant but the church itself did not have no spiritual awakening until when he began the reformation when they got out of that religion part of it but in 1906 right here in the city of Los Angeles in a place called Asusa street God poured out his spirit that was heard all over the world people from all over the when it took 30, 40, 60 days to travel across would come to that little place in the Susa street uh street to experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And ever since that time, God has been restoring his church back to the apostolic days. Why? Because God always brings something to the place where it was when it first broke down. You see this in Peter. Peter, how did he get saved? He was fishing. He couldn't catch anything. The Lord said, "Throw the net on the other side." He said, "Man, I've been fishing all night because you said, "But because you say so." He threw the net. He recognized it was a miracle such proportion. He repented. Now Jesus, he he he uh he betrayed Jesus. He gone back to fishing. And what does the Lord does? He appears again to Peter. And what does he say? Throw the net on the other side. He's bringing Peter to the place where he got saved to his first love. Peter, you have to come back to this place for me to restore you. Peter throws the net, recognizes that it's in the Lord and what is it when it comes to your there's a fire. That's where Jesus that's where Peter betrayed Jesus. There was a fire at night. He was warming up. Some girl ask him, "Peter, aren't you one of those people?" No, no, no. So, you see, Jesus brought him to her first love, brought him to where he fell. And he said, "Now, if you love me, feed my sheep." You got to hang in there, Peter. You got to keep going. So, you see, God has a way of bringing everything back to the original state before he judges it. This is why we're living in the last generation. We are the only generation since Jesus came and died and rose from the dead that has seen both all of the nations of the world together. Israel as a nation and the church back to his apostolic roots. As a matter of fact, they're saying that the church didn't really wake up to his apostles until 1990 when John Akers and all of those uh men started coming back and preaching that the that the uh that the ministry is the five-fold ministry. The apostles are like the thumb. A hand without the thumb can't grab nothing. And that we needed the apostles. We had the teachers, the evangelists, the pastors, and the prophets, but we needed the apostles. And that's where we are today. And so, you see, if you look at it, this is where God is bringing in God. What you're going to see here on fall is Revelation is the judgment of the kingdoms of the world. That's why the verse that we says there, the kings of the earth all freaked out. the judgment of Israel, seven-year judgment, and the judgment of the church. Now, the judgment of the church goes first. That's what Peter says. Peter says uh uh Peter says that u uh uh judgment begins at home. It begins with the church. Now, let's look at this

verse 10. He says, "I was in the spirit on the day of the Lord and I heard a trumpet." So uh Jesus spoke to him and said I am the alpha and the omega the first and the last. What you see write it in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia to Ephesus to Smyrna to Pergamos to Tatia to Sardis to Philadelphia and to Leo Dea. So if you notice right here, we are going to be given the first timeline because you can go now to history and you can see that these seven churches which by the way existed at that time and were seven different cities but if you look at the judgment and which we're not going to do that but if you look at how they deal with them that this has been Christian era as a matter of fact one of the churches He said you will have judgment for 10 days. It is a historical fact that the church was persecuted straight by 10 different emperors. 10 different emperors for a period of 200 years persecuted the church. And so we know that that was the church. So but here's the key that we need to know. What is important to us is the last two churches because the last two churches represent us. We are in the last two churches. But before I get to that, I want to show you how I know that this revelation I can understand it through the physical scope. Now pay attention. Look at this verse 12. Reve