[Music] How's everybody doing tonight? Praise God. Huh? Hallelujah. Father, thank you for giving me clarity of thought right now. Allow my spirit to receive what the Holy Spirit uh has for us tonight. And allow me, Father God, in the um uh in the processes of the mind to receive the revelation as revealed by the Holy Spirit. Father God, open my ears to hear, my heart to understand, Father God, and uh allow us, Father God, to partake of the blessing of your word as we try to unveil it now, Father God, in accordance to the spirit of truth that reveals the truth to us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Now, for those of you who wasn't here last week, we started um uh the process of uh going through the book of Revelation. In the book of revelation, I made this statement that in order for us to understand it, we need to understand one very basic concept and without this we cannot understand it and that is that the revelation is twofold. Uh for example, if if if you're making a movie of events that are taking place simultaneously, we as human cannot see both events at the same time. So the screenplay that's making the movie will play one part first and then somehow they'll let you know that what you're seeing next is a different event that is taking place at the same time. Like Pearl Harbor, there were things going on in Washington. There were things going on in Tokyo. And so in order for you to understand they will put on the bottom whatever time it was that it was going. In order to understand the book of revelation we need to understand that the book of revelation is giving the same account or the same events from two different perspective. And this is not new. You you have first and second chronicles and first and second kings. First and 2 Kings is the same events but from a physical point of view. First and 2 Chronicles give you the same history but from God's point of view. And so we see this, we see it on the book of Job. Job was not aware of heaven. Uh was not aware of what was taking place in heaven. But the book of Job gives us an insight how Satan goes before the throne of God begins to accuse Job. And so what happens is the events that are taking place in the spiritual realm have an effect upon Job's life. All of a sudden his wife I mean his children are gone his house is gone everything is gone. So if we do not come into the understanding that the book of revelation is written in a twofold manner. In other words there are spiritual things that are taking place which that is what causes the physical things to happen. We made this statement when we started last week that the book of revelation the first three chapters chapter 1, two and three after the short introduction that it deals with the church age uh we need to understand that there are what the Bible call dispensations of time. What a dispensation of time is simply the rules that apply to that period of time. For example, Adam and Eve, that was called the dispensation of innocence, only had one rule. And the rule was don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the dispensation of conscience, which is the the one that Adam and Eve lived when they got out of the garden all the way up to Noah's flat, that period of time, uh, 1650 years, um, that period of time was called conscience. And the Bible tells us an insight into what the condition of that time was. Says that the thoughts of every man were evil constantly. Meaning that the conscience of men was so perverted the destruction was eminent. And so then came the dispensation of human governments. Uh God told the sons of u uh Noah to scatter themsel and and repopulate the earth. They say we want to make a name for ourselves. We don't want to be nobody. So they gathered together. Nimrod was their leader. He built a tower and there God came in and confused. He didn't judge them. He judged conscience. He killed everybody except no one, his family. And Adam and Eve, he kicked him out of the garden and said you can never go back into it. But when it came to the human governments, God reserved their judgment for an end time, which we're going to deal with that tonight. Then uh since men could not save himself in his innocence, since man could not save himself by his own conscience and since man could not save himself by the laws that he made, human government, then God introduced a promise. God took a a a man who was a moon worshipper. Abraham, his mother and his father were moon worshippers. They they were from Iraq, the area. Uh uh this is why the Iraq war has such a spiritual connotation because God pulled him out of there and he says I'm going to make a covenant with you. Then God took this man introduced himself to him. The Bible says that Abraham was a friend of God. And then God said to this man, I am going to make a covenant with you. And the covenant that we he made with Abraham, he says, "Out of your seed, all of the nations of the earth will be blessed." This is a statement that God made. Then God took Abraham out, says, "Look at the stars. As many as they are, so shall your descendants be." Then he took him to the sands of the seashore. Says, "As many of the the grains of sand, so shall your descendants be." So that means that the promise of of of God to Abraham was twofold. physical that's what the sand of the seashore is and spiritual that's what the stars are so out of Abraham came two dispensations the first dispensation was the dispensation of law when God took Moses through the burning bush God introduced the law through Moses God took Moses up into heaven brought heaven to the mountains climbed the mountain and 40 days and 49 Moses was revealed the dispensation of law, the dispensation of law. They violated the law. So God decreed 490 years punishment to the nation of Israel. And then Daniel was told at the end of 483 years, Messiah is going to come and he'll be cut off. And so seven years were left to where God is going to deal with the end of time because Daniel says that at that time God is going to put an end to sin, an end to defilement. God is going to cleanse everything. So then when Messiah came and got cut off, God introduced a new dispensation which is the dispensation in which we live. It's called the dispensation of grace. Grace was introduced through a man through the man Jesus Christ. He came in and he uh uh uh by his sacrifice introduces and we're going to see that tonight to the dispensation of grace. So then what we have is God gave a promise that at the end time he's going to deal with the human governments. He's going to deal with Israel and he's going to deal with the church. And out of that he's going to bring redeemed people into the kingdom age which is a thousand years and is what is called the time of rest. So basically then when God introduced himself in gener in revelation chapter one to John he gave him a message to seven specific churches. It was a physical message because John was in the aisle of Pat Mo Patmos which is an island that is off the coast of Greece even today. He gave him h a a message to seven churches. Three or four of those cities where the churches were are still there today and the ruins of the other places are there. And so we came to this is where we finished last week. We came to the conclusion that the church age beginning with the message to the first church back to the messages to the Leo Desan and the Philadelphia church concluded the dispensation of grace. In other words, to the Philadelphia church, God says, "I am going to keep you from the hour of judgment that is coming upon the whole earth to test those." And the reason why is because he said, "You have kept my word and you have not denied my name." There's two type of Christians today. There's a type of Christian that believe that the word of God, the Bible, is the the word of God uncompromised. And they believe that Jesus is deity. They don't believe Jesus was a great prophet or he was all things, but he is divine. He is the son of God, the word of God who became flesh, came into a physical body. Okay? That's what it means not to deny his name. There's a lot of Christianity today that says no that thing about being born of a virgin does that you know that doesn't exist. We have to realize the fact and the fact is that if Jesus is not born of of God himself of the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary then the whole of Christianity is a farce because we're still in our sins. If Jesus was born out of a man, Joseph, then the sin of Adam was passed on to the body of Jesus. Jesus had to be born of God. God has to come in into the womb of Mary and conceive. And and and we see that in Hebrews and we see that in one of Psalm where it says, "Sacrifice and offerings you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." Now Jesus told John the physical revelation and he says there are going to be two churches at the end of the time. One is the Philadelphia church. The one that keeps my word, the one that does not deny my name. You are going to go through an open door. Says I open I have the keys of David. I open a door that no man can shut and I close a door that that that no man can open. And that church, the Philadelphia church, the one the one that believes in the deity of Jesus and believes in the truth of the word of God, you're going to be taken out when the judgment starts. He says, "But the Leoa church is the only of the seven churches where Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Jesus is on the outside. Is the only church that does not have Jesus on the inside. Why? Because they say, "I have need or nothing. I am rich." This is what religion has become today. They have a form of godliness. They quote the word and all of the things. But when it comes to getting things done, they trust on man's

ability to do things. Okay. Now, we're going to start, if you have the book, we're going to start in in um in page number nine. And we see there uh what we concluded last week in revelation 3:17 and 18 where the leo deaya church says because you say I am rich I have become wealthy and I have need of nothing and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. And then God says to this church, I counsel you to buy from me gold. Gold always symbolizes salvation. buy from me gold that is refined in the fire. Meaning that the only way that this church can be saved now is through the refining fire. He says that you may be rich and that white garments that you may be closed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes that you may see. So then if you keeping track of things, Revelation chapter 1 to3 deals with the church age from the time of Jesus to the time of the end of the church when the church gets taken away and the church has to go through what is called the the wrath of God, the judgments of God. Now we come to chapter four and this is where if you follow prophecies this is where everything gets tangled up because most people think like we think human linearally. So after chapter three of course comes chapter 4 and so chapter 4 says uh uh you know there's a door in heaven open and boom they say this is the rapture. But here's the problem. If you have the rapture take place on Revelation chapter 4 verse one and the church is removed, the church has the anointing and remember the anointing goes to the entity that God blesses like he blessed Adam. He says, "I give you dominion." And then when Adam came on the other side, that dominion was passed to Enoch and from Enoch to to Noah. And then then that authority was given to Abraham. And then after that was given to Moses and to the children of Israel. And then on the day of Pentecost, that anointing was given to the church. When the church gets taken out, the true church, because the other one don't have God inside of them. When the church gets taken out, that anointing or authority has to be given to somebody else. Who could it be? Well, Israel, because they got to have seven years when God is going to deal with them. And we see this in where? Revelation chapter 7. In Revelation chapter 7, we see the two witnesses anointing 144,000 12,000 of each tribe of Israel are offered as an offering to God. These young men who have never defiled themselves with women, never been married or anything, these young men are offered to God and that is when the anointing is restored back to Israel. But this does not happen until chapter 7. So if the rapture takes place in chapter 4 and then you got chapter five and chapter 6, then where was the authority? You see, this is why it doesn't make sense. This is why you hear some people saying that well the rapture takes place at the beginning of the tribulation and some people say no it takes place in the middle. Why? Because the middle is they believe when you get to chapter 7. The way that we solve that problem is through the twofold problem. Chapter 4 as I'm going to teach you right now does not follow chapter three. Is now God going to show us the same events from chapter 1, 2, and 3, but he's going to show it to us what is taking place in the spirit? If you see that, everything will make sense. Now, watch this. Revelation chapter 4. This is where we change gears now. And so John Wright says, "After these things I look, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking to me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." Immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne set where? In heaven. And there was one who sat on the throne. Now for comparisons, because this is what we need to do to understand, you need to compare Revelation chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 4. When Jesus reveals himself to John in Revelation chapter 1, what does John say? I was in the aisle of Pathmouth, a physical place. He says, "I saw he had hair, he had eyes, he had feet, he had a a golden thing on his chest, and he walked among the candles which represents the church." That was a physical revelation. That tells us that the seven churches, the letters to the seven churches were speaking about the church age. The seven churches, the seven is a number of completion. the meaning from the beginning that the church was born on the day of Pentecost to the day that it was gone that was represented by the seven letter. But now look at over here the difference. First he says that and I highlighted for you there that a door was standing open where in heaven see heaven and earth are two different things. The alopathmas is in Greece here on the earth. All of a sudden he's taken out to heaven. Okay. And then when he sees heaven what does the boy says to him? Come up here. Now, if somebody says come down, that's bad. We know hell is somewhere down there, right? But we always know heaven is up. So, if they say come up here, that's good. So, he's going up to heaven. And then he says, "I was in the spirit or you could say in the spirit realm." And then he saw the throne in heaven and he saw somebody there. So basically the revelation now is going to shift. John is going to be taken out of our present time uh uh our our our time and space in which we live in on the physical. He is taken out of it. That's what heaven is. In heaven there's no time. Okay? The time works different over there. So he's taken into the spiritual realm and now he's going to be shown a revelation. Now we need to interpret what the revelation is. So we move on reading and then it tells us that he gets up in there and that um

he he gets to see certain things. everything I've been speaking it I I got it written there as to how um the u when the church was born the anointing was taken from Israel as in Luke 20:13 the vineyard was given to others and now that will be restored back to them but now

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in Revelation 4:5 He sees, it says, "And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire that were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God." Now, John gets taken up to heaven. He sees the throne in heaven. He sees someone sitting on the throne, like God sitting on the throne. And now he sees out of the throne lightning and flashing and thundering. Now remember we are in the spiritual realm now. And what did we learn from from uh uh learning about the supernatural? We learned that things are symbols which shows us different things. Now how many of you here know that there are no thunder storms in heaven? This is a spiritual realm. There's no lightning. There's no thundering. So when John is describing what he's seeing, he's trying to explain something that is in the spiritual realm with physical uh words. So what he is seeing, he is seeing because this is what thunderstorms are. He is seeing a tremendous amount of energy being released from the throne. If you were into the spiritual realm, see the throne of God is the center of everything. Everything is held uh is held by God. I got the scripture right right before you get there. Uh you can see it where where it says that everything Acts 17:28 for in him we live and move and have our existence. The word of God sustains everything. So when you go into the throne of heaven, the very first thing that you will see is the energy that comes out of the throne of God where God is sitting and that energy sustains and holds everything together. Everything all the movements of the entire universe are controlled by this energy that flows from there. Now in Revelation chapter 1, we saw this energy inside of a physical body. We saw that Jesus had his feet were like like bronze when it's being melted. It it glow like like bronze in the fire. We saw that his hair was white like pure light. Why? Because energy inside of it was shooting out. We saw like a huge giant sword that came out of his mouth and that is the word of God. The energy of the word of God. If you go to Hebrews 4:12 where we're giving a description of the word of God, he says, "For the word of God is powerful and and and is able to divide us under is living and powerful." He said the word of God is living and powerful. When when he says the word of God is living, the word is sa soy when we get life. But sa means like a sue. All life comes from God. That's what that word means. The word of God is alive. That's what it means. And the word for powerful is not duno dunamos which where we get dynamite which is where most of the words for power is. And it's not exosa which is the word that's translated power. That means authority. When he said I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. Exosea over dunamis. We have authority over the power of the enemy. But this word that is used there to describe the word of God is the word eneria means energy. So you need to understand it. The word of God is lifegiving energy. The word of God come from the throne of God and as he radiates out fills everything with life. It's life. Everything that the word of God touches becomes alive, becomes healed, becomes whole, becomes complete. And so we have to ask ourself a question. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God." You read a couple of verses down and it says, "And the word of God was a light that lighter all men." Meaning the energy that fills everybody with life. And then in John 1:14 says, "And the word became flesh." Which is what we see in in Revelation 1 when Jesus is described as full of energy. But hey, listen. When we get to Revelation chapter 4 to the revelation that is in heaven, we don't see Jesus. See, listen, because I don't want you to misquote me. The word of God is eternal, but the body of Jesus had a beginning. This is a very big distinction that you have to understand. Everybody say, "Oh, Jesus is forever." Yes, the word of God, the salvation of God is from the beginning. But the body of Jesus had a beginning because he's like us. We all had a beginning even though we're eternal. We're going to live forever, but we did not begin until the spirit of God made us and form us in our mother's wombs. You see? So, the word of God is eternal. It's always been around. But when God needed a man, he formed a body. He got Mary's consent. He told Mary and she said, "Be with with you as as you wish." She allowed her body to be used by the Holy Spirit. And so the body of Jesus was a a a form in her womb. And when he was born, that was the beginning of the physical body. But the person that was living in the physical body, the word of God is eternal. Because from the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God. But the reason why I'm bringing this point is because in Revelation chapter 4, we don't see Jesus. We think God. He says there's one who was sitting on the throne and then he says that we see lightning and flashing and thundering and then we see the seven spirits of God. So we see the trinity but the word is not in a body yet. So what does that tell you? The revelation chapter 4 is giving us a revelation of before the word became flesh. This is very important because if you begin with the church age when Jesus came and says I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and now we're going to be showing the spiritual side of it then God has to take us to a beginning place and in the spiritual realm there's no beginning because God is eternal. So we're given a glimpse of the throne and in the throne we see the sevenfold spirit of God. We see one who was sitting on the throne and out of the throne was a tremendous amount of energy being released. I'll make the point and I'm going to prove it right now that what you're seeing in Revelation chapter 4 is the word of God before he became incarnate. The word of God before he became incarnate. Now, let's read on and you'll see that uh that this is what it says. And by the way, all of the things that I'm saying is is written here. So if you have the book, you can go back in it. Then now in in in in Revelation chapter one, after Jesus was revealed and he described that he has feet and and waste and and everything, then the message was given. The message was a chronology, seven churches. So you could follow a timeline. Now the same thing is going to happen here after we see God on the throne. One who sat on the throne the energy that was being released from the throne which is the word of God and then we see the sevenfold spirit. Now God is going to give us a timeline. But like you know nowadays I I don't know how kids do it. Do do they still teach kids how to read a clock? Because on the digital age that we live in you don't need to learn to tell time. Do you guys remember when you were a kid you had to learn how to tell time? You know those of us who were old kids know how to do that now. They just look at the digital thing and tells you what the time is. Here we also have to learn how to decipher this clock. And so I call this a dispensational clock. And this is um uh Revelation 4 6 and 7. This is the very first thing now that is revealed as John gets to heaven. It says before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. Now notice that front deals with the future and back deals with the past and then it describes these four living creatures. The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like a calf. The third living creature had a face like a man. And the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Now if you look down there on the page 12, notice that I have the innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace, kingdom, age. These four creatures represent four dispensations of time. and and and and we can prove that and and and I go into great detail uh dealing if you look at Psalm 22, Psalm 23 and Psalm 24. Psalm 22 for those of you that that may not know deals with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There were three spiritual things going on on the cross when Jesus was crucified. Jesus, David wrote this, by the way, a thousand years before it happened. Psalm 22, he says, "I am hanging on the cross. I can count all my bones." He says his mouth is dried up. Everything that happened on the cross with great detail, David chose it. And then he says that he was surrounded by lions that were tearing at his skin. Now, we know when Jesus was crucified, there were no lions there, were they? And then he says that the bulls, strong bulls of Bashan were goring him as he was in the cross. Now there were no no bulls in there. And this is farther down in in the book as you read. And then he says there were dogs. Gentiles always called were called dogs by the Jews. Everybody who wasn't a Jew, they call them dogs. That was a nickname for the Gentiles. So what Jesus did on the cross, he was defeating the the spirit of the lion. What is the lion? The king of the jungle or this is the kingdoms of the earth or the human governments. The ox which is a beast of burden represents the law which nobody could could carry. It was a load that it was too heavy that broke everybody. and the dispensation of a man was the time of grace that needed to be unleashed. And the flying eagle, that's when we're set free from the bounds of gravity and death and we're taken into the kingdom age, which is a time of immortality. So as you can see the very first thing that John sees when he gets to heaven he says four dispensations form like a clock. Why like a clock? Because first came the human government. Remember after the flood Noah's son began to reproduce and God gave him a command to scatter himself over the face of the whole earth. Nimrod led a rebellion against God. All of the governments of the world at that time came together and they built a tower to what? To reach to heaven. And what happened? God scattered them. They were never judged. So that is the the lion. There the king of the jungle. The human represents the human government. Then the next one was the ox. This is the beast of burden. That's the law. The law is like a a a yoke that goes on the neck that drags you down and breaks you. Why? because nobody could keep the law. And so there's the second beast, the second dispensation. Now, you see, God is bringing it to where he's going to deal with the human governments. God is going to deal with the ox. But the way that we know that this is talking about the time of Jesus is because in Revelation chapter 5 verse one, they're looking for a man, whether it's in heaven, whether it's in earth, or under the earth, who is able to go to the hand of the one who sat on the throne and open the seals in it. No man was found worthy. Now, what does that mean? that Adam could not produce out of his own seed a man who wasn't contaminated. See, think of it as a as some kind of a disease, you know, that that is total. And the person gets it and then every child he has to whatever generation will be contaminated with that. That's what sin is to God. When Adam sinned, every seed, every person that descended from Adam was contaminated. The blood God said the life is in the blood. The blood was contaminated. So nobody descendant of Adam could go up because you see God set up a time when the dispensation of men came. Just like when it came the dispensation of law, God chose Moses. Just like when God needed to introduce the promise, he chose Abraham. And when he needed to introduce the destruction, he chose Noah. Here comes the dispensation of man. The grace of God is going to be revealed to man. And it's going to reveal through a man. And that man cannot be found anywhere. It's not in hell. It's not on earth. It's not in heaven. So John begins to weep. He cries. I can't believe it. Here's heaven and we can't come to it. We can't come to Why? Because there's no man. Now we know that the law says sacrifice and offerings you you you did not desire but a body you prepared for me. You see before the foundations of the world God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit with all of the angelic host were sitting on the table and were planning the creation. And God Moses said if we create men like us and give him freedom, they have a a choice and they can reject us. And if they reject us, then they will become the opposite of what we are. God is good, so everything will be evil. That's what Satan is. Satan is the opposite of everything that God is. And so the word of God said in the councils of the heaven, if man fails, I will redeem them. Hallelujah. See, that's the word of God. That's the promise of God. And God said to the word, "Your word is good enough for me." And boom, he created Adam naked and and and with everything that he was lacking. But he said if he needs to be redeemed, the word will redeem it. So when the time came to redeem, no man could be found. But the word of God said, "You prepare a body for me and I'll redeem man." And so in Revelation chapter 5, as you read on, John is weeping and crying and an angel thugs him and say, "Hey, don't cry. Look, the lion of the tribe of Judah has triumphed." White lion. Because the lion represents the king of the jungle. He's king of kings and lord of lords. That's how the angels of heaven see the word of God because he is the king. He's God. But John looks and instead of seeing a lion, he says a lamb as they have been slain. Because you see that is our humanity. We cannot gaze into the holiness of God except through the lamb of God. And this lamb has seven horns and seven eyes. Since this is spiritual vision, we have to interpret what the signs mean. We know that seven is a number of completion. And we know that eyes represent spiritual knowledge or spiritual wisdom. And we know that horns mean physical strength. So when he sees a lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes, he's seeing a person, a man that has become totally and completely like God, perfect spiritual power and perfect physical power. Now, how do I know that chapter 4 and chapter five belong before the crucifixion and not after? Because of Matthew, before Jesus goes up into heaven, he says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." That's exactly what John sees in Revelation chapter 5. A lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes. All spiritual authority and all physical authority. Now, when did this happen? This happened 2,000 years ago. This is not in the future. You see, if you say that Revelation 4 is in the future and Revelation chapter fives are in the future, then Jesus hasn't received his power yet. See this? If if if if the lamb hasn't been given all authority and all power yet because revelation five is in the future then Matthew lie because Matthew said that all authority uh I mean John you know Matthew said that Jesus said all authority and all power has been given to me and John says that thou was placed upon the lamb. Now this is so very important to us to understand because what this does to us, it gives us an opportunity. This this dispensational clock that I just showed to you gives us an opportunity to gauge what time it is in God's clock. You see, 2,000 years ago when John was taken into heaven, they were looking for a man. And the man we know is Jesus. At the end of the man, the the age of grace, we're going to go into the kingdom age, the end of the thousand years. Did you know what has to happen in the heaven's clock in order for that to happen? Well, guess what? God has to judge the governments of the world the in the same way that that they were when they sinned. When Peter sinned, God brought him. Jesus brought him back to the place that he fell. Remember, he got saved fishing. He denied Jesus by the fire. So Peter was fishing. Jesus came to the shore. Said, "Cast a net to the other side. He brought Peter back to the day when he was saved. When he realized that it was the Lord, he comes in. The Lord has a fire and in the fire there's fish and there's bread." And he says, "Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep." He restored Peter in the same way that he fell. Peter was by the fire when he denied Jesus. Okay? So God always brings something before he deals with it back to the condition that it was when he fell. So God at the end time has to bring first of all the nations of the world in one place with one accord and with one purpose. Then he has to bring Israel as a nation because when God judged him, he judged them for 483 years and then they were dispersed. And for 2,000 years they were not a nation. How can you ch uh judge a nation that