Revelation, Book of, Study, Chapter 1

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Book of Revelation Study, Part 1
June 22, 2024

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Amen. We, all of us, wherever you may be, should already be standing, all the time and anytime that we are in the worship services, in the music part of the worship ceremony.
But if you're not standing yet, you need to stand now so that we can go into prayer in reverence to our King.
Let's pray.
 Lord Heavenly Father, Almighty Father, Almighty God, the Alpha, the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending, the author and finisher of our faith.
Praise Your Holy Name. Thank You, Lord, for getting us through this week. Thank You, Father, for getting us through yesterday, last night and thus far today.
And You are faithful to steer us through to the end, past the finish line and into eternity.
You are ever-present, ever-loving, ever-curing. You are compassionate, forgiving and merciful.
And Your arm is stretched out all day long until after the door is closed to a disobedient, rebellious people, including ourselves.
Thank You, Father, for second chances. Thank You, Father, for a fresh chance, a fresh opportunity every day when we wake up that it is a new day, a new beginning, a new opportunity to be committed to You more, to become more and more in the center of Your will, to seek Your voice, to seek the filling of Your presence.
We ask You, Lord, for this. Please help us to feel Your presence and hear Your voice, to recognize Your voice more now than ever before.
Help us to humble ourselves. Look at the faults of others less and pay attention to our own relationship with You.
We ask You, Lord, for peace of mind. We ask You, Father, to help us to truly repent, to truly come into the center of Your will, whatever that might mean for each individual.
We ourselves clean out the beam out of our own eyes, get our own lives straightened up, have the right priorities, trust You, believe in You, believe Your Word, believe Your faithfulness and follow You.
We ask, Lord, for Your help as this ministry begins a new journey, a new change, a new direction for the church, a new direction for this ministry, a new focus, that Your anointing and blessing and presence and guidance and leadership be strong and present in this new direction, that Your Spirit will lead Your presence to be with Him, and that there will be much fruit for Your kingdom to come from this new direction that we're going to take to the ministry.
Your people, Your church. We pray that this Laodicean church become Philadelphia because of this new direction.
We pray that we will become pleasing in Your eyes, into Your heart, into Your mind, into Your presence.
We accept it. We accept the direction that You have laid for us, the direction You have pointed.
We accept Your anointing, Your help, Your presence, Your leadership and direction in this.
We trust You, Father. We lay it in Your hands. Please speak through me today and each and every week, every sermon. Use my mouth, my tongue, my voice box, my throat, my body, mind, spirit and soul as a willing vessel of Your voice, presence, Your Word, Your Spirit and Your will.
We accept it. In the name of Jesus, so be it. Amen. Praise Jesus. Amen. Praise God.

Let's turn to the book of Revelation now. 
The book of Revelation, chapter 1.
And as we turn to Revelation, chapter 1, I remind everybody, as well as for new listeners that may not know this yet, that I sent out in the newsletter yesterday or the day before, whichever the case it might be, I sent out the newsletter and posted on all the social media channels that we're going to take a new direction.
That for the next few months, that the church will have a prophetic focus. That for the next few months, we will be studying the book of Revelation and other prophetic books and prophetic subjects and topics.
Prophecy will become our focus for the next several months. There are several reasons for this and I definitely know, recognize a knowledge and accept and feel the anointing for this direction.
I know that this is not of my own will, my own thinking, my own decision, but I know that this is definitely the spirit of Christ Jesus working in my mind, body and heart and soul and my thoughts to bring about this new direction for the church internationally around the world.
God's true church. The book of Revelation, chapter 3, as we read recently, says that we are the Laodicean church.
We are. If we are true Christians, if we are truly saved, living in the end time generation, we are the Laodicean church according to scripture.
That's not my opinion. That's thus say of the Lord. Amen. The problem is most people don't understand scripture and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
They think that Laodicean church was a single congregation 2,000 years ago dead and buried or in their thinking, in heaven, which of course is not biblical.
For the scripture says very clearly that no man has ascended up to heaven except for Christ Jesus or the Son of Man that came down from there. Amen.
The problem is people don't know scripture. They've been taught by the Babylonian church, which the Bible calls the sinner God of Satan.
Revelation 12, verse 9 says that Satan has deceived the entire world, not just the majority, not just a fraction or a portion or just half, but the entire world.
That includes every church, every denomination, every organization, every group, every family, every household, the entire world.
You can choose to believe what the Bible says or you can choose to not believe what the Bible says. Amen.
It says the whole world is deceived and all churches and religions are really segments and denominations of the mother church, the Roman Catholic Church, also known as Islam, and the Roman Empire, which comes from the descendancy of the Assyrian and Egyptian pagan empires, pagan religions. Amen.
Because they are deceived, they don't know scripture and the people that think they are saved and people that think they're serving God are in ignorance and are blind and being led by the blind.
The pastors are blind and the pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing and they are lost and blind and undone.
But the true church, the people that are truly saved, are not the church of Babylon and we have knowledge of the truth and we serve God in the truth, but we're hypocrites and complacent and do not have our priorities straight.
The church of Laodicea being the seventh church is symbolic and representative, as well as being literal of 2,000 years ago, being primarily symbolic of the end time church age.
And as we go from Revelation chapter 3 of the letter to the seven churches, it then goes into the prophecies and the judgments and chastisements that shall come upon the world and upon the Laodicean church. Amen.
There's no coincidence of the timing of the writing, the outline of the book of Revelation, going from the church of Laodicea, the end time church, directly into the prophecies, what's going to happen to that last end time seventh church. Amen.

This ministry must take on the new direction of proclaiming to God's own church, his own people, his own sons and daughters, what is going to befall us and to the world, to the lost, to both groups.
People on the right, people on the left, because we have all been rebellious and the whole world has forsaken God.
God searched the entire earth to find one righteous man, the preacher of righteousness, the preacher Noah, the prophet Noah, and nothing is any different from that today.
In the end time it shall be as it was in Noah's day, in many different forms and ways that statement is so very true and accurate.
God's church is extremely small and rare to find anyone that is truly saved and even when they're truly saved they're still not in God's will and that is the condition of the church today.
In the time of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the prophets of God and prophets that are not even written of in the Bible, they saw the sword coming and it was their duty, their responsibility and their calling.
They were born for that mission to unfortunately proclaim the destruction of their own people, of their own nation, their own cities and their own families and Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet for a very good reason.
He cried for his own people. He did not want to see the destruction of his own nation, his own brothers and sisters through Adam and Eve, his own community, his own neighborhood, the church, the temple.
He did not want to see the destruction of any of these things but he did know it was going to occur and that he must blow the trumpet. Amen.
As we approach the beginning of the great tribulation, this must become my duty more than ever before.

In 2006, this ministry started primarily on prophecies that God was speaking to me, given to me, laying on my heart and showing to me and to others as we came into agreement with other people as God was confirming things even through other men that he was working with at the time.
Those men since then have all fallen away and I'm the last man standing among those men of 2006, 2008, 2009.
We must see, realize, seriousness of the matter that the great fallen away has been occurring for an extremely long time.
Brother Robert and I have seen and even before Robert, my wife and I have seen so many people that God definitely revealed the truth to them, brought them into God's true truth and revealed great things to them and did great things for them.
They saw miracles and then they fell away because they could only tolerate only so much truth that they couldn't take all of God's truth.
And they could not accept coming out under the authority of God. They could not accept that there is an administration of God's church.
Rather, they wanted to go their own way, their own will and the same is what we're seeing today in those that even remain and have endured and persevered for several months or years.
Although they remain in God's church, they're still following their own will. Prophet Jeremiah and the other prophets of old recognized the sins of their own people and proclaimed those sins and the judgment to come as hard as it was to swallow, as difficult as it was to eye witness the heads do their duty and responsibility.
I must blow the trumpet. For years we have included prophecy and proclaimed many wonderful revelations of the Lord.
But I have also greatly spent much time on how to walk in the center of God's will in vain, in vain.
They went in one ear and out the other. So I will rarely speak of that now in sermons anymore because I'm just talking to deaf ears.
I will now pretty much for the most part only, only speak of the punishment that we are going to receive.
Of course, as we read scripture and as time goes along, I cannot ignore teaching of how to live for God, but for the majority, in general, the focus would be very heavily upon the chastisements.
And I believe that this will help to wake some people up, it might be only one or two people, but I believe in the fruits that come from following God's will and I know that this is God's will to go in this direction.
As the time of the great tribulation is very near, then this is an impending judgment at the door and therefore it is of great necessity to take on this focus and this priority since we are running out of time.
The message of the prophet must be of the impending doom, but with the purpose, the goal, the heart that the people would repent even if they don't.
But that must be my heart and your heart that repentance will come because that is the heart of God.
He doesn't spank us and hit us and smack us around because he wants to, because he enjoys it, because he wants to laugh at us while he does it.
He doesn't take great joy in the spanking. He doesn't want to spank his own people.
But he sees the necessity and he does it because he loves us and because he's a good father, the best father ever. Amen.

Please join us now as we begin the study of the book of Revelation. Many people say that the book of Revelation is confusing and it is confusing to them because of the millions of different voices of the blind leading the blind.
The word Babylon itself means confusion and if you're listening to Babylon, then you will be confused. Amen.
That may your eyes and ears be open to the voice of God today. May those with ears hear what the Spirit says to the church. 

Revelation chapter one.
Well, first of all, we've got to change that immediately, brother Robert. It's “the apocalypse”. You have to overlook me. I'm a southern hillbilly redneck so I can't speak English. I can only speak hillbilly.
I'm still learning English. The apocalypse of Jesus is what it should say rather than Revelation.
And the word apocalypse, that word does not mean destruction as people think it means, but it means the revealing, the revelation. Amen.
It is a revelation. Something that must be revealed and the purpose of the revealing is to let you know in advance what is about to occur. Amen.
Because God is good to give us a heads up. To let us know in advance what is to occur so that we can repent and so that we can prepare and be ready.
So that we can leave Babylon, all the profusion religious false teachers, and not partake of her sins and her plagues. Amen.

In verse one it says the apocalypse of Jesus, the revealing of Jesus the Christ, which means the Messiah, which means God in the flesh.
Which the Theos, which is the pale Hebrew word for the alpha and the omega. Many rulers and kings throughout time have claimed to be the Theos.
But the word theos was originally applied only to the true Theos and it meant the alpha and the omega.
You break it down the and o meaning alpha and omega. In the Greek classes they say Theos, but that's modern corruption.
It's actually Theos, O being the Omega. Theos. Which the Theos gave him to show to his born servants, calling us slaves. Paul said himself that he was a slave of the Lord and a prisoner of the Lord.
We are willing, monetary slaves that refuse to leave our master because we love our master and we know that his commandments are righteous.
That our master is great and deserves to be served. And we seek to know the will of our master in advance.
Without him even speaking forth the commandment we already know why he likes to eat, why he likes to drink, what time he's going to eat.
And we can read his mind of when he is thirsty and needs a drink and we bring it to him.
He never has to ask for food or water or drink because we know his heart, we know his mind, we know his habits, what he likes, what he doesn't like.
And we are his willing bond servants. Amen. The things which must come to pass quickly, or quickly doesn't mean soon, but swiftly. Amen.
And I would rather put that as swiftly, brother Robert. If you keep track of all these I won't even have a piece of paper to write on. But change quickly to swiftly.

Now for people listening for the first time, the reason I say change is we're not changing the scripture.
We can't do that because scripture was already written in stone two thousand years ago. Amen.
And we don't want to lose our life, our salvation. We don't want to bring the curses of the Lord upon us. We can't change scripture.
But what we can do is to restore scripture. To bring it back to its original means, but in a way that the modern English illiterate regularly can understand. Amen.
Society has been, for no better word, dumbed down through fluoride in the water, soy and everything you eat, television, music, society, rap music.
The list is endless of the things that have dumbed down society. And there's nothing wrong at all but changing words to meet the vocabulary and the understanding and the IQ of this generation.
Even as being done throughout time, translation and translation after translation after translation, bringing the language into the modern time of what people understand.
And not only understand, but understand it better of what it actually means. So we are continuing to edit, update and improve the Alpha and Omega Bible.
The AOB, as you can find at isawthelightministries.com, the Alpha and Omega Bible. So we can cut swiftly because people will understand that better that it's not talking about soon, necessarily, because this was written two thousand years ago.

But that means things will happen swiftly. And once the great tribulation begins, it will be swiftly.
One, two, three, four, bam, bam, bam, bam. One thing after another, one thing after another.
Things will be occurring swiftly. Amen. And he sent and communicated and praised God for communication. I wish people would learn how to do that.
But he sent and communicated because he is the great communicator by the manifestation of Christ to his servant, his slave, John. Amen.
John was truly a slave of God, willing to be thrown in prison in jail. And he wrote this while he was in jail on the island of Patmos in the Mediterranean Sea, which I forgot to bring my Book of Revelation Bible study outline.
It's probably on my desk if you want to get it real quick. I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much. But if I remember right from that, I think it was like maybe three miles, the island size, three miles by four miles, something like that.
Maybe smaller than that, once I get my notes here. But very small island, relatively small, of prison colony. Amen.
And he was willing to go there because he was willing to do what it took, whatever it took, to proclaim the truth and the judgments to come and the true word of God, the commandments, including the Sabbath, the biblical holy days.
And the Roman Catholic Church hated this and they hated the name of Jesus. Even as they do today, more and more, everybody is abandoning and forsaking and hating, inspiring in the name of Jesus and turning everybody to the Assyrian names, Yahshua, Yahweh, Jehovah, which are not Hebrew at all, but Assyrian, as we have proven over and over and over with solid truth, solid, solid documentation, undeniable of this fact at isawthelightministries.com.
Brother Robert's brought me my notes and the island of Patmos in the Manchurian Sea off the coast of Turkey was four miles by eight miles.
So the island served as his prison. As we continue here, John, servant of the Lord, slave to God, verse two, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ to all that he saw.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and care to listen and obey the things which are written in that for the time is near.
Now John, Peter, Paul, Jeremiah, all the prophets and apostles and disciples of old, they all believed that Jesus would return in their lifetime, every one of them.
Every one of them believed firmly, unshakable faith and belief that Christ would return in their lifetime.
There was wrong about that, but they were still truly saved, truly called, true prophets of the Lord.
And yet today, if we're all by one year or two years or eight years about the coming of the Lord or the beginning of the great tribulation, then we are automatically called false prophets and they always want to pull out those Bible verses that says if a prophet says something and it does not come true, then I did not send him.
Do not listen to him, do not fear him. Try using that same verse for the apostle Paul that said that Christ is at him, that the day of his coming is at him.
And all the other prophets, and even John right here, that thought that it was impending in their lifetime, that they were about to see it any day.
Use the Bible verse against them because they made the same mistake. Amen. The Bible verse that I mentioned, others like it, are specific to the false prophets and mostly the prophets of peace.
That was proclaiming that you don't have to listen to Jeremiah because we're not going to be invaded, but rather we will be blessed and prosperous and God will bless America again.
And “God will bring Trump back in to save us.” “God bless America and let's fall down and worship Trump and let's kiss his feet and let's suck his cock because he is our savior and our master. Trump, the almighty!” 
   That's your average Christian. That's your average Christian in America today. It really is.

I'm just being honest and straightforward. Let's not beat around the block. Let's just acknowledge what we're seeing and observing in the world. Amen. Amen.
Let's move forward. But the blessings are for those that obey. Not just reading, but to obey for the times is near.
Well now it is. Amen. Finally. Now the footnote here in the Alpha and Omega Bible says that John's letters to the seven church congregations and seven eras, Jesus told John to write to these seven groups of saints.
The entire book of Revelation was written to these seven churches, not just the individual letters according to Revelation 22 verse 16.

These seven churches have several meanings. One, seven congregations that existed during John's lifetime.
They were located in what is now Turkey. Two, seven time eras of a true church, not Babylon, but seven time eras of a true church from John's lifetime until the return of Jesus.
And three, the seven spiritual conditions of individuals and congregations. A person or a congregation can have the spiritual characteristics of any of these seven branches of the menorah.
Verse four. John to the seven congregations or seven eras of the Ekklesia, the called out ones of God, that are in Asia, (but in a sense) we are in Asia today.
“Grace to you and peace from him who He is and who loves and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne.” 
The seven spirits according to the book of Tobit chapter 12 verse 15 are seven angels.
God does not have seven spirits. Come on now! Of course if you talk to a Trinity believer that's not too far fetched for him to have seven spirits.
If He has three, then He might as well have four and He might as well have seven and He might as well have a million.
If you want to believe the Greek, pagan, Egyptian, Assyrian mythology of a three headed God, then you might as well believe in a seven headed God.
But these are seven angels. 

Verse five. “And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness to a man, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth, to him who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.
And he made us a kingdom, priests to his Theos and Father.”
We must realize that we are, if we are part of his true church, then we are also part of his true government, his kingdom.
And anytime you have a government you have laws and taxes which we call tithes in his kingdom.
www.isawthelightministries.com/tithes.html 
You can't have a kingdom without tithes, taxes. You cannot have a kingdom without law and commandments.
And you cannot have a kingdom without the requirement of reverence to the high king and obedience to his word. Amen.
We are his kingdom and praise to him. To him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. This is the truth.
The word amen means this is the truth. 
Verse seven. Behold he is coming in the clouds. The Jehovah's Witnesses said He arrived in the 1980s.
Evidently He didn't come in the clouds in the 1980s. And ever I will see him. However I did not see him in the 1980s. And how come millions of people blindly follow such a ridiculous, insane, stupid, ideology as the Jehovah's Witnesses of Jesus came to earth in the 1980s!
People have lost their mind and they deserve the judgment to come of what's about to come.

We're studying the book of Revelation and soon we'll get into those judgments that will come not only to the Jehovah's Witness cult but also to the Seven-Day Adventist feminist cult.
And the Baptist court. And the Pentecostal court. And the Apostolic cult. And the Catholic, (untranslated misunderstood word), Presbyterian and all the -isms cults.
Every religion you can name. They're all cults.

And every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, praise God, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him so as it should be.
This is the truth. They will mourn. They won't rejoice at the coming of the Lord. They will mourn.
The people don't really and truly want Jesus to come back because they would rather be slaves to the world.
They'd rather keep their gods, wood and silver, gold and silver, copper, stone and computer microchips.
They'd rather keep their gods of Trump and NFL, Hollywood, Disney World. They'd rather keep their gods rather than the true gods who return. Amen.
This is the truth. Verse 8, I am the Alpha. This is Jesus speaking. And I am the Omega who is and who was and who is to come, (whether you like it or not), the Almighty.
Many people say this is not Jesus speaking. They have no discernment or understanding of scripture whatsoever at all.

Verse 9, I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Jesus was on the island called Patmos because of the word of Theos and the testimony of Jesus.
It was because that he wasn't just preaching love but commandment. What you must do to be saved, what you must do to keep your salvation, what you must do in the name that you must preach in, the name you must believe in.
And there is only one name that man may be saved by and that is Jesus. Not Yahshua, not Yahweh, not Jehovah, not Yahuyayahpukah.
The only Jesus. (I wonder how the transcript is going to translate that. Probably pretty good.) Praise God.
God is so good. 
Verse 10, I was in the spirit in the era of the Lord and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet.
We got to pause that there because the traditional Roman church says that he was in the spirit on Sunday.
It doesn't say the first day of the week. The Bible never ever calls Sunday “the Day of the Lord”.
So anytime you hear anybody calling Sunday “the Day of the Lord”, you should call them out.
On the spot you should call them out. It doesn't matter who they are. You should call them out. “Show me a Bible verse where the scripture says the first day of the week is the day of the Lord.”
“Give me the Bible verse” and of course they want to twist it and of course they want to change the subject and have you to believe in the words of men and women.
But they cannot give you that Bible verse and therefore they're liars. The truth is not in them.
Praise God. Praise God. But John is in the end time.  He's in the spirit like a time traveler. He's in the spirit in our day. John, looking into our time. Wow. Amen. Better than sci-fi. Amen.

Because sci-fi doesn't believe in God! Sci-fi does not believe that Jesus is going to return. Sci-fi is a brain washing technique of the new world order, as much as I do love Star Trek, even though I've not watched it in many, many, many years because of this very fact.
Sci-fi is a government brain washing technique to make many people believe that we will be in the future of thousands of years in the future of all of this technology and God still hasn't returned.
Sci-fi is anti-Christ. It is. It is. We cannot ignore this fact once you think about it!

Of course, nobody ever thinks anymore. That's why they never heard this before in their life.
They never think. They never use their brain anymore because all you got to do is push a button.
That's all you got to do. That's all you got to do. The microwave society which also is part of Satan's new world order plot snare is if we can just get everybody to push a button and believe everything that you read on the internet, well it must be so, and you don't have to think.
You don't have to work with your hands. You can just sit on your ass all day and push buttons.
You don't have to dig a ditch. You don't have to know a real skill. You don't have to be a real man. You don't have to develop muscles or the duty and responsibility.
You don't have to get your hands dirty. You don't have to know how to change the oil in your car or how to do any work on your car whatsoever.
All you have to do is just pull in and give them some money because there's always more money available.
Money, money, money, money, money makes the world turns. It is their God and easy is their God.
Easy is their God. Everything is a snap of the finger. You don't have to do anything yourself. You don't have to work at it.
You don't have to obey but it's just automatic. Amen. But look, when John is in our time it says, I heard behind me a loud voice like of a trumpet, a wake-up call, a alarm clock, a trumpet blowing of impending doom.
Verse 11, stand right in a scroll what you see and stand to the seven congregations of called out ones, to Ephesus and Merits, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thayatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.
And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me and I haven't turned. I saw seven golden lampstands which is really a menorah is what he sees, a seven branch menorah.
The nine branch menorah is not biblical and I would never own one ever nor even share a picture of a nine branch menorah other than to expose it for what it is.
But the biblical menorah is always and forever and eternally seven branches. Verse 13, and in the middle of the lampstands as it was the son of mankind, clothed in a robe reached his feet and girded about his chest with a golden sash, a ribbon.
And head and hair was white like wool, like snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire.

And as I said a few months ago, the eyes as a flame of fire, now red eyes, when I think of red eyes I think of demons.
I've heard it said from a prophet of the Lord a long, long, long, long time ago, one of those I used to preach with and co-work with in the gospel, they have fallen away now.
But at the time when he still had some anointing of the Lord upon him he had said that, and I've heard other people say as well, that sometimes, of course this is not all the time by far, definitely not all the time, but sometimes you can tell a demon possessed person by red fire or red in their eyes, and I know that's accurate and true to some extent, but not always, definitely not always.
Sometimes you can see red only in their reflection or in the water or in a mirror, but even then sometimes it may not be present, but that is something that you can watch out for at certain times to reveal what's inside of the person sometimes as a possibility.
But I see this fire as being blue eyes, blue eyes. That's what came upon me as I was preaching months ago, that it was blue eyes, and I looked up and found out that blue fire is the hottest fire there is.
Some people claim whites, but that's not true, it's not accurate, it's not based on the truth.
The blue flame is hotter than the white flame, and it can vary, temperatures between both white and blue, but in general the blue is going to be hotter as a rule in general.
And of course since God is the lake of fire, hail is not a place underground. Jesus used the word Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom, when he spoke of the lake of fire.
And Gehenna, also known as the valley of Hinnom, is a physical location of a specific size inside Jerusalem that is a valley where they used to throw their trash in that day and time that he was speaking of.
It was kept on fire day and night, and they would throw diseased animals, sometimes prisoners, but mostly trash where they burnt their trash at, amen.
And that place is no longer burning today, but it has picnic tables, trees, green grass.
Hail is no longer burning today. If you want to believe the Bible of the actual word that came out of Jesus' mouth, Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom, but he was using that place that existed back then, still exists today but no longer burning, as a symbolism of a fire that will come to that place again and will devour the entire earth and will not be limited in size and will not be limited to a public park or a public dump, will not be limited to a portion of Jerusalem.
But it is a very consuming fire, as the Bible says, that God himself is a consuming fire, even as Moses repeatedly seen God as fire repeatedly, that here even in his eyes you see his fire.
The heart is fire over the blue flames, not a red devil with pitchforks, but the blue flame lake of fire, the very presence of God himself enveloping the entire earth and universe to reshape, reform, and recreate a new creation, eternity, paradise.
Paradise is not in heaven. Paradise is the garden of Eden that will be restored to the entire earth after God devours the thorns and the curse will no longer exist. Amen.
If you keep reading with us to the book of Revelation, it's going to take all year for us to get through this book. Amen.

But so be it, because people need to finally learn the truth. Flame of fire, verse 15, his feet as a furnished, burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, where he is hot on fire, and the voice like the sound of many waters, he is powerful and strong.
In his right hand he held seven stars, he made the stars, and the foot of the earth is his footstool, and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, this is symbolic, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength, and when I saw him I fell at his feet like a dead man, and he placed his right hand on me saying, Do not be afraid, for I am the first and the last, and the living one, and I was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of the grave.
Now we know that these keys are symbolic, there are not literal keys to the gate of hell, or to the gate of heaven, even one.
Contrary to traditional doctrine of Pentecostal churches and some Baptist and some others, maybe even the Catholic Church, that Jesus, during the three days and three nights that the Bible says that he was in the tomb, that he was traveling back and forth between heaven and hell, and rolling around on the ground, pulling the hair of Satan, wrestling around, punching each other in the eye, wrestling around on the ground with Satan, grappling for the keys to hell.
Bullshit. That's the biggest load of bullshit ever heard in my life, and people believe that crap.
But if people believe that crap, people are, I don't want to even say it right now, they believe God.

Verse 19, Therefore write the things which ye have seen, and the things which are, and the things which are going to take place after these things.
As for the mystery of the seven stars, which ye saw in my right hand, there are seven voting lampstands, they are the menorah.
Seven stars are the messengers, that is the pastors, of the seven congregations of called out ones, and the seven lampstands are the seven congregations of called out ones.
In other words, the church being seven flames of fire. We are not our flesh. We are in our flesh. We are in these bowls.
We are in these vessels. We are in these cups. We are in this pottery, but we are not our flesh. We are seven flames of fire.
We are a flame of fire. Each and every one of us, we are plasma, we are spirit, we are little gods.
Jesus himself quoted the scripture that says that have I not called you gods. People hate that doctrine.
People hate that novel verse. People hate the words of Christ. I'm just telling you exactly what Christ said and how he quoted scripture himself and he believed in that scripture and he taught that scripture, but lo and behold, God, how dare I say that this is the truth. Amen.
I'm sorry I get angry, but it's just so ridiculous that no one wants to believe the Bible, but they want to stay ignorant of scripture, unbelieving of scripture, and believing of the false doctrines, false teachings, that men and women, they themselves are ignorant of scripture, are teachers, ignorant teaching, ignorant teachers, wolves in sheep's clothing — for even Satan himself turns himself into an angel of light. Amen.

I thank you for listening today. This is the first chapter of the book of Revelation. It's going to take a long time to get through this book, but we'll do it one step at a time.
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Brother Jared, would you like to share anything with us today? That's a good ending point because I wanted to take a response to one of the verses which Jesus himself told you where he says, the Lord said to my Lord, he stated saying, you're God, basically.
Think of the promise which God made to Abraham which is that you, your seed, your progeny, your descendants, will be as the stars of the sky, or as the grains of sand on the shore, uncountable.
Very good. The promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, as you descend, it should be as the stars.
Really talking about it in number, but there is a symbolism there because the Bible does say in another place that we will shine as brightly as the stars.
And in the book of Daniel when the angel is revealing understanding of the prophecy, even in the same time frame of Revelation. He says that the righteous will shine as the stars.
Then Jesus himself says: "Even like the sun."
And you can see His face shining like the sun in the book of Revelation. Amen.

Good connections. Good connections. We're not going to look like we look today.
We're going to look like gods because we are gods. We're going to look like stars.
We're going to look like sons of God. We're going to look like a shining sun, balls of fire.
We're not literally going to be wearing white roads. That's just symbolism. The Bible says it's symbolism. The Bible says that these white roads are the righteousness.
They're righteous. They're righteous works. It doesn't say it is cotton, but rather these are we're not going to be wearing clothes in the kingdom because we won't be having penises and so forth and buttholes in the kingdom.
We won't have that in the kingdom because we won't have the need to regurgitate and digest and do all these different things that the animals do.
We're gods. Amen. And we shall rule and we shall be inheritors of the entire universe. I believe in one city.
Others will be given five cities. Others will be given ten cities. And God owns more than just cities but also nations and planets and solar systems. Amen.

A.J. says thanks to the Lord Jesus for empowering me to repent and to find my passion even if it's just a little bit a day. Amen.
Seek a little bit more of the Lord every day. Amen. Every day with prayer. Pray all day long. And don't forget reading of the scripture. And don't forget worship. Raising your hands.
Getting on your knees. Praising God and being thankful and actually literally thinking Him for everything.
For the house you live in. For everything. For health. For every penny you find on the ground.
If you can walk. If you're not in the hospital today. If you feel one little bit better today than yesterday. Praise God for everything.
John says who is similar to putting on the armor of God. Amen. And brother Hugh in South Africa, thank you Jesus for everything and for always making a way and for helping me to grow more and more. Amen.

You had made a comment to me either yesterday or the day before about how this specific analogy, how many lost people who are being deceived, a lot of them are like sheep.
Yes. And slaughtered and before that I am the dragon and I need no new dragon. Exactly. As a church the Bible calls us sheep and it does say that sheep are slaughtered every day.
So we have to be careful about those wolves, those false teachers, false Christians and other snares that the devil lays out to catch and snare the sheep.
We shouldn't be stupid but we are. Sheep are very stupid but they can also be very intelligent if they apply themselves.
So you can choose to be stupid or you can choose to be intelligent because sheep have both capacity.
They really do have both capacity and have the capacity to know the voice of their master and to not follow the voice of a stranger that you have to apply yourself to do that and people don't.
People just simply don't. But hopefully you will more and more and more. We are the church of Laodicea and the congregation. I can't really see anyone that is really where they need to be in the Lord yet but you know what?
The great tribulation is ordained for our time. There is no coincidence in that. The great tribulation is going to come to the worst time era of God's own people and you look back in scripture.
God brought the chastisement, the invasion, the slavery and martyrdom of His own kingdom, of His own people, of His own nation, the Israelites, the Hebrews.
He brought it upon them because He loved them and the Bible says that the Father that loves His child, He disciplines His child, He chastises His child because He loves them and if He didn't do so then we would be bastards.
But we are not bastards. God will chastise us and this is why I chastise you because I love you. Amen.
And I just read a statement similar to what you had said just prior, a very rare statement to see in print.

Great. Praise God for that. I praise God for brother Robert. Amen. Well, I've been having a very severe prostate infection that was extremely severe but just about every bit of that is known now.
I would say probably only 1% of the infection remains would be a good estimate and so I'm doing a lot better.
Brother Robert was having a lot of problems last night with schizophrenia and we seek your prayers on that.
He's doing very well today, doing very well today and I praise God for getting us through the night.
We all have struggles with our health. We all have struggles because we're in these vessels of play and play is fragile and weak.
But each day if we keep our eyes on the Lord we'll look in more and more and be empowered to look, act, feel the presence of the Lord and be mirrors of the Lord on this earth and be empowered as we continue to seek Him diligently.
And the Bible says to seek Him with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your soul.

And I cannot say that you're doing that if you're working on God's Holy Sabbath day or if you're continuing to go to the Sunday churches or if you continue to endorse them, listen to them, watch them, propitiate with them.
Then you cannot say to yourself that you're serving the Lord and that you have denied yourself and that you have taken up your cross to follow Him as the Bible says and commands us to do.
You cannot say, Manasseh in India, that you're serving God, that you're saved, that you are in His will.
You cannot say that you are my brother if you are working for Satan's church on God's Holy Sabbath day.
You can't say that you are my brother and you cannot say that you are a follower of Christ.
If you really had faith and if you really wanted to believe God and trust God and live for God, you would quit that job today.
You would quit immediately, trusting God to provide for you. To make a way for you, to help you get a job.
You would quit that job in the name of Jesus and you would tell them exactly why you quit them because they are the church of Satan and then you would go out and be a man and find a lawn to mow, a ditch to dig, some dishes to wash, a cow to milk, a goat to slaughter.
Whatever it took, you would go out and you would search and you would work. You would knock door to door and you would apply, in other words, you would apply yourself to finding a job and you would work at finding a job and you would not come home until you came home with a job, doing more than just praying.

But put your faith to action because you are leaving the house and I will not come back to my house until I have a job in my hand and I believe you for it and go out there and do it and then God would bless it because you are obeying Him and you are being a man and you are doing what you are supposed to do.

But as long as you keep working for the church of Satan and just praying about it and just saying, “Lord I believe you are going to bring me a job” and you keep working for Satan and keep calling me your “brother”, you hypocrite!
You are never going to serve God when you stay in that complacency, that lukewarmness.
You are never going to follow God if you continue to think that God is your magical genie.
Wrongfully thinking that He is just going to bring it to you out of magic, out of thin air without you working to bring it about.

People are babies in Baby-lon. I just say it straight out because if I don't if I don't say it just straight out then I can't see that you would actually truly repent unless I just say it straight out then maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe you will repent that what I have seen from the last several moves you are never going to repent. Ever.
And I will not tolerate your presence but now so much longer time is already clicking on you before I delete you from my life forever.
I'm not going to tolerate you much longer. Our focus is going to turn to a judgment because the people are not going to repent.
It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Manasseh will not quit working for the church and saying it's just not going to happen, it's not going to happen.
And the women are not going to be obedient to the men. It's just not going to happen.
The wives are not going to be submissive to the men. It's just not going to happen.
The women will not keep their mouths shut to their husbands. It's not going to happen.
The church will not repent, even as the world itself will not repent. It's not going to happen.
I must speak to the judgments. And people are not going to move. And people are not going to follow the Lord. I hate to end on this sour note but it's the reality, and therefore I must proclaim the judgment is going to come on every one of you. 
Every one of you. Everybody listening. Everyone of you. It's coming. The end.

[The trumpet sounds.] 

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