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Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rear view Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rear view Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Part One 1st Who Where The Players That Weekend in Jerusalem?
Part One 1st Who Where The Players That Weekend in Jerusalem?
This Lesson is one of the few I will write in which I ask you to just really consider this lesson, allow you to flesh it out too, and though I feel more and more this correct I will NOT compel you to agree but ask the Scriptures and HOLY SPIRIT to open the lesson to you.
This Lesson is one of the few I will write in which I ask you to just really consider this lesson, allow you to flesh it out too, and though I feel more and more this correct I will NOT compel you to agree but ask the Scriptures and HOLY SPIRIT to open the lesson to you.
This Lesson comes from my eyes being opened more and more to my own (All of Ours too)Total Depravity, that I have been rescued from and just what the depths of that pit truly are.
Since it is a lot to digest we will discuss this in three Parts and I truly would like you to debate it among yourselves too.
1st Lesson Who Where The Players That Weekend in Jerusalem?
2nd Lesson Christ the Only Righteous One Really Battles and Dies For Our Souls
3rdLesson Total Victory Proven and Secured on that First Easter Sunday
Our First Lesson
1st Who Where The Players That Weekend in Jerusalem?
Sizing the Canvas can only be done correctly Through the opening of our eyes through the power of the HOLY SPIRIT by really grasping the two sides and why we introduce the combatants at this epic Battle.
As I walked through a Christian Book Store in Texas and saw the huge section on Biblical Prophecy leading up to the “Great Battle Of Armageddon” itself, even though our LORD Jesus Christ HIMSELF tells us plainly Mt 24:34 "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
35 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
37 "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
Yes Jesus Firmly says NO one knows of HIS second Coming except the FATHER alone NO MATTER what these self-proclaimed Prophets write.
It seems like these Theologians really need to fill the air with their own opinions, and if you think I am over reacting, I actually went to a Bible Conference in 2000 where this very passage was debated and some of the thoughts very strange from the great Theologians assembled, as some suggested that this passage was already played out in AD 70 at the Destruction of Jerusalem, these “Theological” All Stars call this teaching Preterism and a Prederist as Wikipedia post, holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which Webster's 1913 Dictionary lists as a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond".
This debate also had Theologians as Anti Prederist, and some as on the Fence, and what is sad is these “All Stars” write Books that sell millions of copies and they have loads of followers and hopefully you have picked up on this already, as a load of mislead followers in all three camps blindly follow these as face it not everyone of this camp can be right.
In fact again our LORD Christ will answer this very question in
Jos 5:13 ¶ Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?"
14 He said, "No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, "What has my lord to say to his servant?"
15 The captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
(NAS95)
You see I have also come to understand that actually ALL Three Camps were VERY WRONG during this National 2000 Orlando Conference and I believe that perhaps the reason can be found in my Webpage section Fractured Fairy Tales that I have referred you to previously https://sites.google.com/view/itsallaboutjesus-paulwallace/learning-to-listen-again
Please note I am note, as I suggested previously I am Not compelling you to agree with me as I want you to investigate, yourselves praying the HOLY SPIRIT will open your eyes reading the full Biblical Contextual narrative yourself.
You see as I discovered by being required to read volumes of these “theological” stars books in Seminary, (I really referred to this as the Book of the Week Club) that a “Theologian is a person who can say hello in 1000 words and still leave you completely baffled at what he or she was trying to say” as very few of these books were worth the paper they were written on!
No this is not a joke, as I had to read a Systematic Theology Volume that could have been 1/3 of the size and upon reading another of this star’s books I said to my Professor “Michael Horton has the gift of squeezing 200 pages of content into 500 pages” sarcasm intended.
You think I am over reacting; well I was assigned to read from a list of Romans Commentaries two and chose Martin Luther’s 224 page volume and Douglas Moo, and D.A. Carson’s 1164 page Volume all to discuss a Letter that in 12 p comes to 22 Pages.
We here is a Secret, ALL, YES ALL of Romans and the Bible for that matter is summed up NOT these unhelpful volumes but in JUST TWO verses Ro 3:23 & 24, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
That’s it, for real!!!
I also want to be clear that the two side confusion HAS been the issue in the Synagogue and Church and continues to plague them and WILL, as the Church does not see Hosea’s Prostitute Wife as more chaste then the Church, and really understand She IS!!!!
As my Father was failing the Assistant Pastor at my Mother’s Church came and talked to my Mom reading Psalm 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
And assuring Mom that as one of the “Righteous” will be given the strength to get through this and He prayed with Mom.
I wanted to kick this Ass out of the House as He is a Bible Hack, as Christ ALONE is Righteous, but in fairness this really is the predominant Teaching of the religious clubs (Synagogues and Churches) as being dead they really don’t see our true estate, nor do they really believe Jesus Christ at all!
You see had He been a true Pastor He would have said by the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT, Through Christ our LORD the only ONE who is Righteous HE will provide the strength to get through this.
Yes they say they do, but each week the third point of the lessons throughout the country (and we have spent years traveling Coast to Coast, and South to North) devolve into proof they are for the vast majority NOT understanding the Bible at all, as they tell us how “We must improve ourselves each week by reading the Bible more, praying better, and loving more” as If We of our own Strength could even try.
While attending a Church service at Redeemer South New York City, my Wife Robin’s IPhone accidently blurted out, “I don’t understand what you are saying” just moments before we were walking out on this terrible lesson, but I did say, Siri was the ONLY HONEST one in the Auditorium as the lesson was terrible and the presenter far from a Biblical scholar as He could not even get the names of Isaac and Jacobs Wives straight.
So my friend when your Pastor, Priest, Cardinal, Rabbi, start to tell you how to improve your condition by these methods, it is time to get up and walk out on them as they ARE NOT Bible instructors but the religious club deceivers that have and will continue to plague the Church and Synagogue, and YES it is GOD honoring to walk out on these people! You see instead by the Grace of GOD through the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT bringing us to life through the Complete Purchase of Jesus Christ alone can we be changed period, and Yes this means the Old Testament Believers too, as the Bible is one story, and to understand who the righteous are is to actually have been awakened from the Dead, and brought to life seeing the LORD ALONE FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT as the ONLY Righteous one, and the ONE who accredits THEIR Righteousness to us!
You see the 66 Books of Bible and the true TEACHER the HOLY SPIRIT will always be the only true teacher of what Scripture really means and its proper reading of a fully Contextual layout the only Standard to measure any of these books and claims.
The whole purpose of the Bible is to see Jesus as a complete rescuer of we the most repulsive and truly helpless to change our ways as we are Dead in our Trespass and Sins, Eph 2:1 ¶ And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4 ¶ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
All of this really does set the Stage for understanding that YOU must read the Bible, and pray the HOLY SPIRIT opens our eyes to the truth of scripture and STOP Immediately relying on these Pope’s and start relying on the LORD, as fully purchased for us by Jesus Christ.
So let’s get started;
This Lesson will as it suggest set the Stage and the Players for what I firmly believing is the Great Battle of Armageddon.
Who will be the players up to and including Good Friday and what was their particular roles.
First we have the ALL the Religious Leaders, High Priest, Pharisees, Sadducees, Levites, the Roman Leadership, Pontius Pilate, The Army Centurions, The Gentiles, The Blind, The Lepers, and other Unclean.
Today we could call them the Church Leadership, Pastors, Priests, Elders, Deacons, and you insert one here.
The supporting cast will be the Apostles, but we must know that Apostle, as we too, are NOT the Good Guys so let’s meet them;
Now the Good Guys,……….. Jesus Christ ALONE.
Now let us explore exactly why these principles came together in Jerusalem, a city whose name means City of Peace.
Now again this is a self-reflection lesson and actually goes right to the heart of whether by GOD’S Grace we are a Christian or just religious, as if we see the two polar opposite camps All of Mankind as Evil vs Christ alone as the Good we have had our eyes opened to the truth of the Gospel, and Remember Jesus HIMSELF tells us who the two Camps going to War really are as HE said Mt 7:11 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Mt 12:34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart
Lu 18:18 ¶ A ruler questioned Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.
Is Jesus hiding HIS thoughts here or is HE being bluntly honest laying out our estate?
Yes HE is being bluntly honest with us and at the same time telling us who the two warring camps are.
When the HOLY SPIRIT allows us to finally see this we then really start to see the Battle as it really was as that Good Friday the Cosmic Clash Between Pure Evil and Pure GOOD will go to War in a three day Battle that will reshape the World, and for sure Jerusalem.
We must by the Grace of GOD really grasping that we are NOT on the side of the GOOD, but pure Evil and that the LORD Jesus Christ alone will rescue us in HIMSELF from that estate and HE alone Could!!!!
This is a tough first Lesson, but until by GOD’S Grace we really come to understand the Players on that Good Friday will we really get a clue why this was indeed Armageddon.
Jesus HIMSELF tells us a real key to reading Revelation in the very beginning of Chapter 1 verse 8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
This Key tells us to read the Book as already accomplished, happening during the writing of the volume and also future.
We will pick up on this in our next lesson but I do want to tip you off by really looking for the clues that clearly tell us what is actually happening, like;
The Dead being raised,
Jerusalem a whole being split in three,
Powerful Earthquakes,
The Sun turning Dark, and the SON spills HIS RED Blood,
The Curtain in the Temple Torn in Two, as the True TEMPLE is torn and Bleeding, ect.
The next lessons will not have the background sizing so please keep this lesson in mind as we walk through this focus on Seeing Armageddon in the Rearview Mirror, as Jesus Christ has truly Won the Battle and Will indeed come Re 19:11 ¶ And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself.
13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
New Testament Lesson
Revelation 16
1 ¶ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;
6 for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
7 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."
8 ¶ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.
12 ¶ The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")
16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.
17 ¶ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done."
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
(NAS95)
This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Old Testament Lesson
Ho 1:1 ¶ The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 ¶ When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD."
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the LORD said to him, "Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 "On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.
7 "But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen."
8 ¶ When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.
9 And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God."
10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not My people," It will be said to them, "You are the sons of the living God."
11 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, And they will appoint for themselves one leader, And they will go up from the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel.
(NAS95)
Daniel 9
1 ¶ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
3 So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
4 ¶ I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.
6 "Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.
7 "Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.
8 "Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9 "To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
10 nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
11 "Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.
12 "Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.
13 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.
14 "Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
15 "And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked.
16 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
17 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.
18 "O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.
19 "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."
20 ¶ Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,
21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
23 "At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
(NAS95)
This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rearview Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday. Part Two
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rearview Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday. Part Two
Christ the Only Righteous One Really Battles and Dies For Our Souls
Christ the Only Righteous One Really Battles and Dies For Our Souls
As I said in the First of this series this Lesson is one of the few I will write in which I ask you to just really consider this lesson, allow you to flesh it out too, and though I feel more and more this correct I will NOT compel you to agree.
I am counting on you Keeping the First Lesson in mind, remembering that this is Jesus Revealing what the Bible Has been, what it currently is, and what will come as well as all of existence is all about, and thus the Revelation of Jesus Christ, as we will not go over the background information but instead will be diving right into Christ the Only Righteous One Really Battles and Dies For Our Souls.
So again a proper reading of Revelation is Past Present and Future and not as I was taught as a Kid Future only and we will unpack this more in our next lesson.
The Bible Pages are again below, the lesson.
As we reflect we should again focus on Chapter 16’s
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")
16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.
17 ¶ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done."
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
and as we walk through the passage I hope you start to see what is occurring here, though we will touch many of the topics next time as the Lesson is now a four part lesson, and will keep us looking at our topic.
A: We really must come to grips with understanding that the Revelation (Apocalypse) of Jesus Christ, really is the full Revelation past, present and future.
In other words it Jesus saying plainly to John, this is what it has all been, is and will be about, and NOT future only.
Sadly and now clearer to me why we Presbyterians “Punish our Pastors to learn the Greek and Hebrew Languages as well as basic Arabic, as we would should NOT read the Greek word Apocalypse as a Future tense word
In point of fact Romans 8:19 actually uses the futuristic use of the word, in anxious longing apokaradokia, and to take off the cover as in to expose now apokalupto and I desire not to get to deep in the mud but just wanted to be clear there are other tenses to the word Apocalypse, and the it should have been a clue to this understanding of the
So Jesus is not only explaining future events HE is also explaining the past and what is sad, had we actually been able listen throughout HIS Ministry HE TOLD US SO.
Take a look at Luke 10:17-20 as an example
Lu 10:17 ¶ The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."
18 And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
19 "Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.
20 "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."
So when we read about Re 12:7 And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war,
8 and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Is Jesus speaking past or present in Luke and is HE speaking of what Happened in Revelation 12?
Yes past as HE saw, and Revelation 12 seems to suggest the same event as HE told us in Luke 10 thus HE must be revealing of course.
It is important as we will see Jesus explaining the whole point of existence and you will notice the Exact same tense of the word Apokalupsis as we saw in the opening line of Revelation (Apokalupsis) of Jesus Christ
In Romans 16:25 ¶ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation (Apokalupsis) of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,
26 but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;
27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.
(NAS95)
We again notice Jesus pulling the cover off the beautiful story the Bible has, is, and will be about.
Just like a cover over a dedication, like a Statue, or project hidden from view that we make out the shape of scope of the thing obscured that was completed, it is only clear as it is revealed.
In the Book of Revelation Jesus is indeed doing what?????
Please you answer this…………………….
YES of Course Revealing, and YES as we have belabored Past, Present and Future.
B: Christ the Only Righteous One Really Battles and Dies For Our Souls
When the LORD awakens our dead souls and opens our eyes to the fact that there has really been only ONE Righteous person to EVER Live and will EVER Live and HE IS Jesus the Christ, and that HE did indeed purchase with HIS Life the most Vial Creatures (US!!!) we then start to see clearly just what that collision on the those crossroads in Jerusalem was about.
The Only Righteous One knew and even wrote the entire script that would be played out in Jerusalem the First Good Friday, and we remember HE spelled it out in Eden’s Garden How HE Alone Was going to be the Rescuer and Guardian of HIS People!
I was surprised that the Greek Septuagint, The actual Oldest Copies of the Old Testament We Have previous to the Dead Sea Scroll discovery and the actual Authority records Genesis 3:15 as the LORD, Christ in Eden actually saying HE Will Stand Vigilant Guard over and protecting us, While Standing Guarding Completely over the Serpent, It does not change the Seed of the Woman as the Virgin Birth.
It also still points clearly to the Cosmic Collision at those Jerusalem Crossroads where the Cross was placed.
I know sometimes I belabor points and will be, attempting to make the point of Evil (Mankind NOT Just Satan) being Battled against By the Righteous (Christ Alone) as the War was not us against Evil, but Christ Dying by Our hand, as HE truly Died for our Sins and YES All of the Sins HE Desired to Wash away and Souls HE desired before the Beginning of time to Save and Completely.
So it needs to be crystal clear and you need to help me by really answering these two questions as Our FATHER CANNOT Look on ONE Sin Period;
Jesus Blood, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, did wash away some of our sins, or all of them?
Jesus Blood, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, did it purchase some of our soul, or all of it?
I will not provide the answer as I have asked this question, and 100% of the people answer it correctly.
C: Conclusion
I don’t usually place a Conclusion in the Lesson, but this one has me a bit worried as I have crisscrossed the Country and actually have NOT heard the Gospel truly presented in any Denominational Service (no small sampling as they include Presbyterian, PCA, OPC, EPC, PCUSA, United Methodist, Episcopal, Reformed) as they all digress into this grotesque understanding that we can change ourselves by better Bible Studying, Better Prayer Life, Loving People more, and acting More Like Jesus.
This teaching is straight from the Pharisee’s Playbook and the very playbook that mislead the Synagogue too, as we have NEVER been able to change ourselves, NOR will we ever, as Christ ALONE is our Complete Rescuer and had to die in this great First Good Friday Battle.
HE alone could Purchase us completely, Rescue us Completely, Grant us a New Life Completely, and Has the Power and right to do so.
You see I get very whipped up on this subject as I noted in my Lessons “Is The Three Point Sermon Killing The Church?” I will try to link this better but for now I invite you to visit the webpage https://sites.google.com/view/itsallaboutjesus-paulwallace/home as the Pastors and Rabbis really don’t get that we are incapable of improving ourselves, and that the Triune GOD alone can provide this rescue and new Life and ALWAYS HAVE.
You see this is a systemic misunderstanding of what the Old Testament was actually telling us as they see it as what some chose to do, rather then what it actually says How the LORD chooses to spare one Sinner incapable of choosing over another sinner both deserving of eternal death.
The predominant teaching claims each of the patriarchs chose the LORD, when the Body of work actually bluntly tells us the LORD had to choose each and actually made it clear that HE chose Joseph over Esau before either was born.
It sets up the unfortunate table of rightly choosing in the Old Testament instead of seeing the SCARLET thread of Mercy & Grace Cover to Cover, while giving birth to the False Teaching that has become the Predominate Church, Synagogue ability to self-Improve and rightly choose as if we were alive to do so.
I am going to use two names and I normally do not but it important to note the First is Nationally known Dr. David Jerimiah who stated on a broadcast “we need to learn to pray better” as if we can ever pray correctly and is an unbiblical understanding of who actually prays our prayers as the HOLY SPIRIT presents them to the FATHER on our behalf.
Next the Rev Jim Jordon who is a Pastor at my Mother’s church after read a Psalm to my Mom, “Barbara the LORD will grant strength to the Righteous”, when I heard this I wanted to kick his ass out of the House asking the “pastor” and just who are and actually is the Righteous?
But you see this is actually the teaching through the years that HAS lead the Church and Synagogue astray as the LORD ALONE IS Righteous and says so repeatedly and IS!
Had Jordon said “Barbara, For Christ sake the LORD will grant you the strength to get through this as HE sees us in Christ as Righteous” that would have been correct, as if Dr. Jerimiah had said, though our prayers are polluted, the HOLY SPIRIT will cause us to become more and more Christ like in our prayers for HIS sake this too would be accurate.
Now this is not nit picking as it is the reason I believe we have been blinded to exactly what happened at those crossroads that First Good Friday, and sets our third lesson up.
“What Signs Are We Still Waiting For”
We ask (and this by HIS awakening) the HOLY SPIRIT Open our eyes and really allows the Church and Synagogue to really see that The LORD Jesus Christ ALONE is the righteous that the Bible talks about, and in fact Christ HIMSELF talks about.
You see the struggle to see that first Good Friday as the Cosmic Collision it really was full scale war and why it is not seen that way We don’t actually believe nor do our Pastors & Rabbis teach or believe we are as unredeemable as we truly are.
Jesus alone Gained the Victory that day, and HE alone is our Rescuer.
Next Lesson, Lesson three we will indeed look at “Just What Signs Are We Waiting For?????”
New Testament Lesson
Revelation 16
1 ¶ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;
6 for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
7 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."
8 ¶ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.
12 ¶ The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")
16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.
17 ¶ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done."
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
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This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Old Testament Lesson
Ho 1:1 ¶ The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 ¶ When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD."
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the LORD said to him, "Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 "On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.
7 "But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen."
8 ¶ When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.
9 And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God."
10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not My people," It will be said to them, "You are the sons of the living God."
11 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, And they will appoint for themselves one leader, And they will go up from the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel.
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Daniel 9
1 ¶ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
3 So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
4 ¶ I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.
6 "Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.
7 "Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.
8 "Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9 "To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
10 nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
11 "Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.
12 "Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.
13 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.
14 "Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
15 "And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked.
16 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
17 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.
18 "O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.
19 "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."
20 ¶ Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,
21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
23 "At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
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This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rearview Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rearview Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Part Three “What Signs Are We Still Waiting For????”
Part Three “What Signs Are We Still Waiting For????”
As I must keep reminding all of us and YES Me especially, this Lesson is one of the few I will write in which I ask you too to not just really consider this lesson, but ask you to allow you to flesh it out too, and though I feel more and more this correct I will NOT compel you to agree, in fact I want you to argue with it if need be.
As I must keep reminding all of us and YES Me especially, this Lesson is one of the few I will write in which I ask you too to not just really consider this lesson, but ask you to allow you to flesh it out too, and though I feel more and more this correct I will NOT compel you to agree, in fact I want you to argue with it if need be.
This Lesson is Also a series of questions about just “What Signs Are We Still Waiting For????”
This Lesson is Also a series of questions about just “What Signs Are We Still Waiting For????”
So it will not be the typical three point lesson, but indeed a walk through some of the signs that seem already apparent to have happened, and it will also be that the points will come as a summery before the proof walk through.
So let’s review another point as It is also fully important to remember that this is a Book where Jesus is Telling John, what the Whole point of the Bible is about, Past, Present and Future, as Jesus is really “Revealing” in Revelation.
So here is the Summary
As we think over exactly what signs we are waiting for we will use Revelation 16 for a reference point, reminding us again that the Bible was NOT written in Chapters and verses so NONE the Bible is off limits as contextual proof text, nor should it ever be, so with this in mid let’s start walking.
First: One Quick example I like to look at is when Jesus tells us of the HELPER Who is to come, and as we see in the beginning of the Chapter a Rider on a White Horse who will be one to conquer and YES our Dead souls need to be awakened and conquered.
We should see the Rider as the HOLY SPIRIT, and YES HE looks a lot like and Should Jesus as the KING of KINGS on the Final White Horse in Chapter 19.
Second: The Boils and sores, and have we seen them before haven’t we?
Yes of course we have, and I even included Job as He is tested with sores, though not in the category of the beast followers, but inflicted by him.
We also note the many cases of boils bursting out on those who oppose the LORD, and cannot discount this as part of the first sign.
Egypt is inflicted with boils as one of the signs, and Jerimiah will write about the curse itself too.
Third: The Rivers and the Seas turned to Blood, and again we need to be honest, and ask HAVE we seen this before, the answer is of course YES, and again the Plagues of Egypt come to mind as we will remember the waters of Egypt, NOT just the Nile are turned to Blood, and remember the narrative as even the puddles.
Fourth: In the next sign we see the Sun and Fire Scorching the earth, as a Punishment on the Blaspheming, and this we need to be careful of, as ALL Mankind could be wiped away as Sodom & Gomorra, but that said the LORD did indeed throw Fire and Brimstone down at the hand of HIS Angels.
We will also not the drying up of the rivers and the six months without rain during the Prophet Elijah’s ministry, and yes the Rivers Did dry up.
Fifth: They Gather At A Place Called “Har-Magedon” the Hebrew pronunciation or “Armageddon” The Greek understanding of the Hebrew name so in other words Both are correct we see this in the Immanuel the direct Hebrew and Emmanuel the Greek Translation of GOD With Us and again both are correct.
But back to our gathering as this is perhaps the most imperative point to understand and see, and we indeed ask the HOLY SPIRIT for clarity, as,
Who are going to clash at this battlefield?
Yes the Forces of Evil (ALL of Us) and GOOD, and we should by now know the ONLY ONE GOOD, is Christ alone as It must be HIM on the Battlefield representing as HE alone can!
We will also walk the signs of this Battle, and I as we walk through them it seems hard to suggest they are to come as they ALL occurred on the First Good Friday.
We will need All Four Gospels in front of us as we see the signs are spread across all four, that actually sets up a quick sidebar as we see these non-carbon copy gospels as a true proof of the honesty and authentic, necessary individual narrative of each Gospel.
We will note that one of the tips Detectives understand and pick up on when the suspects have the exact same story. They quickly deduce the suspects have rehearsed their stories as NO two people remember an occurrence exactly the same.
I actually did this as a Sunday School experiment and it worked to perfection, so try it, as I sat the students in separate parts of the classroom, read Romans Chapter 1 to them, and gave them time to write a paragraph on what was most important on what they each heard, and yes Not one matched.
But back to the signs, and it is imperative we be honest here as it will render shelves of “End Times” Books on the shelves at Christian Book story to what they really are, rubbish.
A: Matthew remembers that there was unparalleled Darkness and at Noon (Sixth hour marked from Sunrise on 6:00 AM) lasting until 3:00PM (Ninth Hour using the same time scale).
B: Earthquake that shook the City, tearing the Curtain of the Temple separating the Holy of Holies from we sinners in two, and as only Jesus righteousness could provide direct access to the throne of the FATHER.
We also remember that this great earthquake as Matthew recalls split Tombs, the Saints to rise from their Graves, and these were witnessed. (we will address the Earthquake of the Resurrection in a bit)
C: As remembered by The Pronouncement by Jesus on the cursed tree that “It is Accomplished” or “It Is Finished” both accurate translations, as Christ had indeed paid completely the Price for our worthless and undeserving souls, so great is HIS love.
D: The City Split into Three, and this actually has indeed Happen post the close of the Cannon as in 600’s Islam would be the third religion to split and fight over Jerusalem and to this day it is in three distinct camps, Jewish, Christian, and Islam.
Summary:
I hope our walk through these sign helped, and perhaps opened your eyes to the War that was fought that First Good Friday, and how our inability to see how Evil we all truly are actually deceives us into understand how cataclysmic that collision between GOOD, and Evil really was and that it ALWAYS Was Jesus plan to rescue us from the beginning of time because HE wrote the plan.
By the Mercy of our FATHER in Heaven through the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT, and to this Very Collision, Jesus can the Work be seen, and this struggle to see is real, and YES the HOLY SPIRIT Alone can open our eyes, as I was scolded by my Romans Professor Jono, who said “You have a terrible habit of saying that we are all evil” and yes He said that as He graded my paper a C, but why could my Professor be so wrong?
Or as the Pastor I interned under in Florida who asked me, in fact directed me NOT to teach on the Difference Between Jacob & Esau being Nothing, and scolded me by asking “Are you saying Mother Theresa and Hitler are equal sinners”, well I was stunned, and as I got back to my apartment, the shock wearing off, I said to myself, YES They are a we are, it is only by the Grace of GOD we are not all Hitlers!
So why too can a Pastor for so many years be so wrong as well?
Because if the HOLY SPIRIT does NOT open our eyes we too will NOT see the depravity of our true estate, and to what end and extent the Love of Jesus is.
Psalm 14:1 ¶ <<For the choir director. A Psalm of David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.Judges 2:11 Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals,
Psalm 53:1 ¶ <<For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.
Matthew 7:11 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 12:34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Romans 3:10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
This truly is the Struggle of the Church, Synagogue, and Mosque (though Islam does promote self-salvation based on works)as the leadership in each tend to be predisposed to the blindness of self-righteousness, when in fact we are fully sinful, and for all three, the rescuer is Jesus Christ alone.
So sorry Jono, and Pastor Paterson We are the depth of Evil, and it is from that estate Jesus really rescues us, as we truly were Eph 2:1 ¶ And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Col 2:13 ¶ When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
I hope this lesson helped us to see that indeed the Great Battle of the First Good Friday was Armageddon, and Easter Sunday Starting with another Earthquake was the shout of Jesus Christ Full victory, and YES HE will indeed return, Acts 1:11 They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."
As HE is and Always Has Been KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS.
We will finish up with part Four as we look to what has been done what is happening and what will come in a lesson we call “Total Victory Proven and Secured on that First Easter Sunday”
John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
Joh 15:26 ¶ "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,
Joh 16:7 ¶ "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
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We should notice something important in the First Seal Re 6:1 ¶ Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come."
2 I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
We note that the RIDER is on a White Horse who is being sent out to Conquer us, and viewing the parallel in Re 19:11 ¶ And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself.
13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
As the KING of Kings is mounted on what?
True Question, so please answer X_______________________________________
Yes a White Horse, and these TWO Look alike as I am convinced the RIDER in the First Seal is the Sending out of the HOLY SPIRIT, and the Second RIDER is indeed who we all know HE is Jesus Christ HIMSELF.
You see the TWO members of the Triune GODHEAD would Naturally look alike as THEY are the ONLY TRUE GOD, and these are beautiful examples of TWO of THEIR THREE PERSONS.
Now let’s walk through each Sign Leading Up To The First Good Friday
Revelation 16:1 ¶ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
A) Have we seen sores brought up the earth?
Yes of course we have, and I even included Job as He is tested with sores, though not in the category of the beast followers, but inflicted by him.
We also note the many cases of boils bursting out on those who oppose the LORD, and cannot discount this as part of the first sign.
Deuteronomy 28:35 "The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Job 2:7 ¶ Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Jeremiah 30:13 'There is no one to plead your cause; No healing for your sore, No recovery for you.
Exodus 9:8 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 "It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt."
1st Samuel 5:8 So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" And they said, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath." And they brought the ark of the God of Israel around.
9 After they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city with very great confusion; and He smote the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors (Hebrew boils or Lemuroids) broke out on them.
You are welcome to add verses, and even argue with the list, but argue ONLY with Scripture, and NOT, “The Highly Regarded Theologian Says This” as only Scripture is our standard.
Third: This one really is a low hanging fruit of the signs, The Rivers and the Seas turned to Blood, and again we need to be honest, and ask HAVE we seen this before, the answer is of course YES, and again the Plagues of Egypt come to mind as we will remember the waters of Egypt, NOT just the Nile are turned to Blood, and remember the narrative as even the puddles.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
Exodus 7:19 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
20 So Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
21 The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;
6 for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
7 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."
Again this is not only a fulfilled text as well as us understanding this as a being fulfilled and to be fulfilled text.
Third & Fourth What might come to mind here?
Fourth: In the next sign we see the Sun and Fire Scorching the earth, as a Punishment on the Blaspheming, and this we need to be careful of, as ALL Mankind could be wiped away as Sodom & Gomorra, but that said the LORD did indeed throw Fire and Brimstone down at the hand of HIS Angels.
We will also not the drying up of the rivers and the six months without rain during the Prophet Elijah’s ministry, and yes the Rivers Did dry up.
8 ¶ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.
12 ¶ The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")
16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.
Matthew 23:29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
30 and say, 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31 "So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
34 ¶ "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
38 "Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!
39 "For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"
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Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.
60 They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,
17 ¶ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done."
John 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, "I am thirsty."
29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.
30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
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Fifth: They Gather At A Place Called “Har-Magedon” the Hebrew pronunciation or “Armageddon” The Greek understanding of the Hebrew name so in other words Both are correct we see this in the Immanuel the direct Hebrew and Emmanuel the Greek Translation of GOD With Us and again both are correct.
But back to our gathering as this is perhaps the most imperative point to understand and see, and we indeed ask the HOLY SPIRIT for clarity, as,
Who are going to clash at this battlefield?
Yes the Forces of Evil (ALL of Us) and GOOD, and we should by now know the ONLY ONE GOOD, is Christ alone as It must be HIM on the Battlefield representing as HE alone can!
We will also walk the signs of this Battle, and I as we walk through them it seems hard to suggest they are to come as they ALL occurred on the First Good Friday.
We will need All Four Gospels in front of us as we see the signs are spread across all four, that actually sets up a quick sidebar as we see these non-carbon copy gospels as a true proof of the honesty and authentic, necessary individual narrative of each Gospel.
We will note that one of the tips Detectives understand and pick up on when the suspects have the exact same story. They quickly deduce the suspects have rehearsed their stories as NO two people remember an occurrence exactly the same.
I actually did this as a Sunday School experiment and it worked to perfection, so try it, as I sat the students in separate parts of the classroom, read Romans Chapter 1 to them, and gave them time to write a paragraph on what was most important on what they each heard, and yes Not one matched.
But back to the signs, and it is imperative we be honest here as it will render shelves of “End Times” Books on the shelves at Christian Book story to what they really are, rubbish.
A: Matthew remembers that there was unparalleled Darkness and at Noon (Sixth hour marked from Sunrise on 6:00 AM) lasting until 3:00PM (Ninth Hour using the same time scale).
B: Earthquake that shook the City, tearing the Curtain of the Temple separating the Holy of Holies from we sinners in two, and as only Jesus righteousness could provide direct access to the throne of the FATHER.
We also remember that this great earthquake as Matthew recalls split Tombs, the Saints to rise from their Graves, and these were witnessed. (we will address the Earthquake of the Resurrection in a bit)
C: As remembered by The Pronouncement by Jesus on the cursed tree that “It is Accomplished” or “It Is Finished” both accurate translations, as Christ had indeed paid completely the Price for our worthless and undeserving souls, so great is HIS love.
D: The City Split into Three, and this actually has indeed Happen post the close of the Cannon as in 600’s Islam would be the third religion to split and fight over Jerusalem and to this day it is in three distinct camps, Jewish, Christian, and Islam.
Mt 27:50 ¶ And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.
52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
Mt 27:54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
Mt 28:2 And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rear view Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Not Seeing Armageddon In The Rear view Mirror , might just be our denial of what Happened on Good Friday.
Part Four Total Victory Proven and Secured on that First Easter Sunday
Part Four Total Victory Proven and Secured on that First Easter Sunday
As we walk into our final lesson in this series I would hope we have been encouraged to keep digging, keep exploring this topic of see Armageddon as a true Happened, Happening, and Future event and that the Armageddon Battle has been waged and won by Cross, and that the Major Battle occurred on that First Good Friday thru Easter Battle field.
Today our focus takes us to the victory of Easter Sunday, and we will be looking at;
1) Just How Bad ARE We
2) All Out War
3) Total Victory, Needed Total Price Paid, Total Purchase of our Souls, Total Cleansing Of Our Sins
Please promise me that we both will continue to look at and honestly see the already fulfilled signs of Revelation.
1) Just How Bad ARE We;
During my thoughts on how we were going to finish up our lessons on this novel understanding that Armageddon may actually have already occurred, and that a proper reading of the Bible actually tells us such.
We also should always note that should the HOLY SPIRIT not open our Eyes, we too would never see or understand this.
As I write this lesson, in the Providence of GOD I have been listening, and Re-listening to the Genesis 18 & 19 Account of the Destruction of Sodom & Gomorra (Posted at the bottom of our lesson) and as you will see our understanding of this account perhaps is will explain whether the HOLY SPIRIT has opened our eyes to what really is going on here.
What do I mean?
Well the Standard, Pastor in a Church, and Rabbi in a Synagogue will teach this lesson as the Destruction of evil Sodom & Gomorra for all of the Evil things they have done, and though they are partially right, it is only in a full reading of the account that we actually should be getting the truth between the eyes.
Let’s look at what is going on, as the ANGEL of the LORD, the pre-incarnate Christ HIMSELF will negotiate with Abraham for the Sake of the Righteous in Sodom & Gomorra, and we pick it up on Abraham asking the LORD not to Destroy The Cities for the Sake of 50, then 45, then 30, then 20 and gets down to 10, and The ANGEL of the LORD says to Abraham, HE will not destroy them even for the sake of 10 Righteous.
Well before I get to this point, I want you to be honest here, and I will be as well, if like me, we have heard over and over Rabbis and Pastors compare Cities like Las Vegas and San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, and others as being today’s Sodom & Gomorra, as they are so evil.
I actually swallowed this kind of (CRAP) teaching, it’s the Predominant teaching and WE ALL Know it and sadly I actually believed it to be true, and Yet it is fully it Bull S, and the Bible, Old and New Testament tells us it is Bull S, and yet because our Pastors and Rabbis are Religious Teachers (Pharisees) as I too was, as the Old Testament Psalm 53:2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there is anyone who understands, Who seeks after God.
3 Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one. Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. New Testament Romans 3:10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
Now back to the ANGEL of the LORD negotiating with Abraham for the sake of the Righteous in the Cities, what did Christ already know, and it could have been my Hometown of Hackettstown, New Jersey, Birth city of Montclair, New Jersey, or any town of City you insert the name, how many in any Town or City throughout the world have even one Righteous Person living there?
This was the point as the LORD could Have and still could destroy any of these cities, but Sodom & Gomorra are the two HE chose to use as HIS Righteous Example to rightfully destroy while mercifully sparing our Towns.
Please ask the HOLY SPIRIT to open our ears to hearing the very next time our Pastors, Rabbis and other religious teachers say “They are just like Sodom & Gomorra” we say, and mean it, as is our town.
We will address this issue in our next series, ”Is The Church Killing Christianity?” that will be a 3 to 4 part look at what has corrupted the Church and Synagogue.
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2) All Out War;
As you peruse the End Times Prophecy that is perhaps the largest section in so many “Christian” Book Stores, you will see the coming apocalypse, and as we have researched in this series, it’s only because of our complete failure to see what really occurred on the First Good Friday.
This will be our shortest point as it really is a review of what we have talked about in the previous as we by now we should know that weekend in Jerusalem, on that Holy Week leading up to that first Good Friday was all out War!
We looked at the undeniable signs that were in many ways supernatural and as such full proof that this was the COSMIC CRASH between PURE GOOD, and PURE EVIL (all of us not just Satan) and the Battle was to the Death just as Christ told us in Eden’s Garden when HE Said, I will Crush the Serpent, But I will Die In The Process.
Genesis 3:15 (DBY) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush HIS heel.
As today a Serpents bite was then, and can still be nonsurvivable, and as such Jesus really had to die on Good Friday at our Hand, and though on Paper we see Good Friday as Satan’s greatest moment, it was actually and I believe He knew it.
You see I think all the way up until Jesus said John 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
There was all the way up until Jesus actually finished HIS work and really Died, that there still was on the Evil side a chance of victory, but upon Jesus true death, did Satan actually see it was over and He was indeed Crushed by the SEED of the Woman, this is visually portrayed almost perfectly in the excellent movie “The Passion Of The Christ”.
We could go on, but I really want to get to the Third observation,
3) Total Victory, Needed Total Price Paid, Total Purchase of our Souls, Total Cleansing Of Our Sins;
When I go to the Nursing Homes on my Visitation, when I am asked to teach in a Church on Sunday Morning or explain the Gospel to co-workers when asked I like to start out by saying “we will stand before GOD and make a full accounting of our lives, and when the truck load of paper accounting for each sin pulls up the PROSECUTTER Starts to Read off our Name and then says;
“Here are the Charges, Well done my Good and Faithfull Servant, Enter my rest”
As we stand there Stunned, wondering about what just happened, our LORD Jesus Christ looks us in the Eyes, and says “Did I pay for some of your Sins or All of them? All of them LORD
Jesus then Asks, “Did I pay for some of your Soul, or All of it? And again we say All of them LORD.
Now you understand Good Friday and Easter better don’t you, as this total War had to be fought and the Victory secured.
If we really believe the Bible, and that NO one can stand before the FATHER with even one sin un paid for, then we need to see that Jesus indeed paid for all of our Soul Past Present and Future, and that HE really paid for ALL of our sins Past Present and Future, as HIS Blood and Atonement was perfect and Spotless, as it only could be, and provided TOTAL Victory as it only could.
You see the predominant Teaching of the Church & Synagogue that guilt’s you into the seat each week falsely portrays us as able to choose of our own.
I want you to really gasp this, and as such I ask, HOLY SPIRIT, In Jesus name by the will of our FATHER in Heaven, please make this point very clear.
I want you to think of the last viewing you went to, and I want you to honestly ask yourself, Did you expect the deceased to rise from the Casket, and enter into the conversation?
Did you think that that the deceased would be able to help you choose in a matter?
Of course not, and yet the Bible tells us John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
25 "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Ephesians 2:1 ¶ And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Colossians 2:13 ¶ When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
And NO this not just a New Testament understanding;
Psalm 51:1 ¶ <<For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>> Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
7 ¶ Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Isaiah 53:4 ¶ Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
So let us get this straight, Easter Sunday HAD TO PROVIDE IN JESUS CHRIST Full Purchase, Total Victory, Needed Total Price Paid, Total Purchase of our Souls, Total Cleansing Of Our Sins;
And only Jesus could. and Did!
Good Friday’s Earthquake, Blackened Sun, Rising Souls, Torn Temple Curtain, and Easter’s Earthquake and Angels guarding the KINGS Empty Tomb, have us ask the very point this lesson was asking,
As We Await Armageddon To Come, Exactly What Signs Are You Waiting For, As Perhaps It Really Is Mostly In The Rear View Mirror.
Again our Next Series, we be a 3 to 4 Part Series “Is The Church Killing Christianity?”
New Testament Lesson
Revelation 16
1 ¶ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;
6 for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
7 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."
8 ¶ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.
12 ¶ The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;
14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")
16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.
17 ¶ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is done."
18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
(NAS95)
This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Old Testament Lesson
Ho 1:1 ¶ The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 ¶ When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD."
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the LORD said to him, "Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 "On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.
7 "But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen."
8 ¶ When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.
9 And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God."
10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not My people," It will be said to them, "You are the sons of the living God."
11 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, And they will appoint for themselves one leader, And they will go up from the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel.
(NAS95)
Daniel 9
1 ¶ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
3 So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
4 ¶ I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.
6 "Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.
7 "Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.
8 "Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9 "To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
10 nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
11 "Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.
12 "Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.
13 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.
14 "Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
15 "And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked.
16 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
17 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.
18 "O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.
19 "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."
20 ¶ Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,
21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.
22 He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
23 "At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
(NAS95)
This Is The WORD Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Genesis 18:1 ¶ Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
2 When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,
3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
4 "Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;
5 and I will bring a piece of bread, that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant." And they said, "So do, as you have said."
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes."
7 Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.
8 He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.
9 ¶ Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "There, in the tent."
10 He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
12 Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
13 And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?'
14 "Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."
15 Sarah denied it however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh."
16 ¶ Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.
17 The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
19 "For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him."
20 And the LORD said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
21 "I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."
22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
23 ¶ Abraham came near and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24 "Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
25 "Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"
26 So the LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account."
27 And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.
28 "Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?" And He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
29 He spoke to Him yet again and said, "Suppose forty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do it on account of the forty."
30 Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose thirty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
31 And he said, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it on account of the twenty."
32 Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it on account of the ten."
33 As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham the LORD departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19:1 ¶ Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend the night in the square."
3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 ¶ Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
5 and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them."
6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
7 and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
8 "Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof."
9 But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.
10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
12 ¶ Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
13 for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
15 ¶ When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."
16 But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
17 When they had brought them outside, one said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away."
18 But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords!
19 "Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;
20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved."
21 He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.
22 "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.
23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24 ¶ Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26 ¶ But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 ¶ Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.
29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
30 ¶ Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.
32 "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father."
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
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This is the WORD of the LORD
Thanks Be To GOD
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