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Episode 38 Revelation Part 4 Jesus Revealed to The Seven Churches

• Introduction to the seven letters to the seven churches in Asia Minor
  1. There are different theories on the implication of the letters to the seven Churches.
     • One of the most popular theories is that the seven churches represent 7 ages of the Church.
       • I don’t believe this is a good interpretation primarily because all of the characteristics of these Churches can be seen globally at any time.

1. First and foremost, each letter was written from Jesus to a specific Church in Asia minor in the first century.
   • However, at the conclusion of each letter Jesus writes “He who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the seven Churches”. This is a clear invitation to apply the understanding of these seven letters to all churches of all ages.
2. I believe the healthy way to approach these letters is to do personal evaluation of the context of the letters and community evaluation of your church community through the context of these letters. This is truly and evaluation tool that the Lord has given us to get right and get ready for what He is wanting to do through the Church in the earth at the time that we are living, and in context to the totality of the book of Revelation, what He wants to do through the Church in tribulation at the end of the age.

• We are going to work through the prologs of each letter and the warning of each letter before we go back and look at the “meat of each letter”. The reason I like to study these letters this way is because highlights what Jesus is revealing about Himself, which is the center focus of the book!
  1. The Church of Ephesus “He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks among the seven lampstands”.
     • So Jesus holds the seven stars, or the seven angels of the seven churches in His right hand.
       • There are some different interpretations of the seven stars. We know that they are referred to “angels” here which means “messengers”. Many interpret the angels as bishops of leaders over the Church bodies in the given region. I think that makes the most since here. I say that because, it doesn’t make since to me that Jesus would give this information to an angel, to give to John so that he could right a book to give it to another angel that would then give it to the Church in the region. It makes more since to me that John is writing these letter through the Spirit of God to disperse them to Church leaders in the given regions.
     • He walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands. Jesus is alive and active in His Church. He walks in the midst of His Church!

• The warning to the Church in Ephesus; “remember from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.”
  • The significands here on an individual level is remembering that state of being when you first believe! The reality of God in your heart at that first time of repentance.
  • On a Church level the warning is to remember the call of your church plant or ministry. The reality of the burden God put on you as a community of believers. Over time, through growth, and through influence it’s easy to stray from the heart of your calling.
  • The need here is to repent, ultimately, we should live a life of repentance. Truly daily repentance, walking in the Spirit in relation to the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

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Episode 36 Revelation Part 2 chapter 1:1-8 Everyone who hears

• My thoughts on the Israel war with Humas 10/08/2023
  • The first thing to define is not what does the war mean, but rather how should the Church respond.
  • This war is bringing to the surface global antisemitism, which ultimately is a good thing (not antisemitism, but the revealing of it). The Church must be ready to identify with Israel.
  • At the time of this recording I believe this is a birth pain. We will see how it escalates.
  • I believe there will be a war with Israel, led by Iran that will ultimately result in a false peace in the middle east setting the stage for the end of the age. It’s way to early in this conflict to know if this is that conflict.
• Introduction
  • Review ch. 1 verse1-3
  • The book of revelation was given from the Father through the Son to the church, not anyone else.
• Revelation ch. 1:1-8
  • Verse 1-3 review
    • The book is first and foremost a revelation of Jesus Christ and that should be the filter in which the book should be seen.
    • There is a blessing for all who;
      1. Read the words of the book
      2. Hear (learn and understand) the book
      3. Keep the book
    • Verses 4&5 This book was a prophecy/vision from the triune God to John so he could record it and give it to the 7 churches.
      • The book was first and foremost given to the 7 churches in Asia minor which is modern day Turkey.
      • Jesus was the first born from the dead. He died on the cross and was resurrected as the first born from the dead. We will receive our resurrected bodies and Join Jesus in His state at His return.
      • The seven spirits who are before His throne (the Holy Spirit).
      • The triune God is mentioned here by the; Him who is who was and is to come (the Father), Jesus Christ (the Son),
    • Verse 5&6
      • By the blood of Jesus we were made priests. This is important. We have been given direct access to Yaweh thought the blood of Jesus. Shame on us if we don’t take advantage of that!
    • Verse 7
      • Jesus’ return is not in secret! He is only coming one more time and ALL will see Him. Including Israel (those who pierced him) and they will be saved at His coming.
    • Verse 8
      • This book is from the Highest one, the creator of all things, and He is giving it to the gentile Church that was grafted into the Holy covenant by the Jewish Messiah for a purpose!

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Episode 35 Revelation Part 1 Introduction

• Introduction
  • The foundation on how to approach the book of Revelation.
    • What scripture shouts we shout, what scripture whispers we whisper, and where scripture is silent, we are silent.
    • This book is the revelation of Jesus Christ first and foremost and that must be the gage in which we filter all passages through.
    • This book is to show servants or Jesus Christ what shortly must take place.
    • The book is broken up into 4 parts.
      • John’s commissioning ch. 1
      • The seven letters to the seven churches ch.2&3
      • The Throne room ch.4&5
      • The transition from the great tribulation to the age to come ch.6-22
    • The book of Revelation is given in sequential and parenthetical style.
      • The five sections or ways of judgement that come on the earth.
        • Sequentially THE SEAL JUDGEMENTS ch.6
          • Parenthetically THE PROTECTION OF THE ELECT REMNANT OF ISAEAL AND THE PARELLED MYRTED CHURCH. Ch.7
        • Sequentially THE TRUMPET JUDGEMENTS ch.8-9
          • Parenthetically PROPHETIC LEADERSHIP GIVEN ch.10-11
        • Sequentially THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS BEGINS ch.11:15-19
          • Parenthetically SATANS FINAL RAGE TO DESTROY THE HOLY PEOPLE OF THE HOLY COVENANT. Ch.12-14
        • Sequentially THE BOWL JUDGEMENTS ch.15-16
          • Parenthetically THE SUDDUCTION OF HARLOT BABYLON ch.17-18
        • Sequentially THE TIUMPHET ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM ch.19:11-21:8
          • Parenthetically THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS ch.21:9-22:5

• The Seven Major Symbols In Revelation;
  • The dragon=Satan
  • The women with a male child=The Elect Remnant of Ethnic Israel
  • The Beast=The Antichrist
  • The Second Beast=The False Prophet
  • Harlot Babylon=The Global Religious and Economical System
  • The Seven Heads=Seven Historical and Yet One Future Empires that Have Persecuted Ethnic Israel
  • Ten Horns=A 10 Nation Coalition of Middle Eastern Countries.
• The beginning and the end
  • Revelation 1:1-3
    • Verse 1 What the book is about, first and foremost Jesus Christ, second the things that are going to take place.
    • Verse 2 The author of the book, the beloved Apostle John
    • Verse 3 The blessing for reading, hearing and keeping
      • Taking the time to engage in the book, understand the book, and obey the book.
    • Revelation 22:18&19
      • Verse 18 if we add any of our own narratives without a scriptural foundation, we are subject to the plagues in the book.
      • Verse 19 If we take away any of the truths in this book, we are subject to our names being taken away from the book of life.
    • This should be a sobering reality that forces us to read and engage in this book humbly, relying on prayer and fasting to hear from GOD on the truths and not relying on the teachers or the commentaries, including my teachings. We must allow the scriptures and our prayer life to dictate our understanding of the end of the age because our salvation itself is on the line.

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Episode 34 Ezekiel 38 & 39 part 3 The Conquering King and His Coming Kingdom on Earth

• Ezekiel 39:1-29
• Introduction
  • Ezekiel 39:1-10 The fall of Gog
  • Ezekiel 39:17-29 outline King Jesus as the conquer of Gog or the “seed of Satan” (the antichrist figure) and the events taking place as he consummates the end of this age and the setting up of His kingdom on earth!
• Verses 1-2 Yahweh is against Gog, but He is the one who brings Him against Israel. It is important that we understand how God uses the enemies of His people to bring judgement and chastisement against His people and ultimately destroys the enemies of His people and brings restoration.
• Verses 1-6 The prophetic promise of the destruction of the antichrist by the returning Messiah!
• Verses 7-8 This is important, it is through the destruction of the enemies of Israel by Jesus at His return that make known to Israel that Jesus is in fact Yahweh incarnate, their true Messiah. “This is the day of which I have spoken” The day of the Lord and the day that all the remnant of Israel are saved in fullness, the fulfilment of the everlasting covenant!
• Verses 9-10 The purging of the earth after this 7 year period of tribulation begins.
• Verse 11 I believe that this verse speaks to a literal burial ground for Gog and his armies and will be left as a memorial throughout the millennium. The location being east of the Jordan in Transjordan (the other side of the Jordan river from Israel), and this allows Israel to be free of defilement.
• Verse 12-16 The first 7 months of the millennium reign of Christ will consist of a cleansing of the land, purging the land from the dead enemies of Israel, even down to the last bone!
• Verses 17-20 This outlines a feast for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, a sacrificial feast of the enemies of Israel that have been slain by the King.
• Verse 21-22 Here lays the true purpose of the great tribulation that will come upon the earth, that all the nations will know that Jesus is Yahweh, all of Israel will acknowledge that Jesus is Lord, and the nations will know that Israel is Yahweh’s chosen people.
• Verse 23-24 This is important, at the coming of Jesus and the conclusion of the great tribulation, the Nations as well as Israel will acknowledges that God is just in his dealing with Israel and the nations. In other words Israel will take responsibility for the just punishment that has come upon them and be in a place of repentance not self-assurance.
• Verse 25 There will be global pilgrimage of the Jewish people back to Jerusalem, and there will be a total, full restoration of every descendant of Jacob that remains on the earth.
• Verse 26-29 God reiterates that there will be a total and complete restoration of all of Israel, but only after they recognize their iniquity and acknowledge that the calamity that has come upon them was God’s just judgement. The promise is complete Yahweh will never again hide His face from them, but they will always be His!
• Conclusion The great tribulation period is brought on by God to break the will of His chosen people. The ultimate purpose is to bring Israel to place of true repentance and acknowledgement of Jesus as Yahweh and to bring the nations into the revelation of Jesus as Yahweh and that Yahweh is the true Most High God, and as a result Israel is restored and the everlasting covenant between Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is fulfilled!

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Episode 33 Ezekiel 38 & 39 part 2 The Rise and Fall of the Antichrist

• Ezekiel 38:9-39:16
• Introduction
  • Ezekiel 38 & 39 are called the oracle of the battle of Gog of Magog
  • These chapters bring in more detail of the military conquest of the antichrist figure at the end of the age.
  • There is controversy on who Gog pertains to, where he comes from, and when he exists.
  • These chapters also speak to the fall of the antichrist and the inauguration of the millennial reign of Christ.
• Ezekiel 38:8-23
  • Verse 8-9 Ezekiel is prophesying of the coming invasion of Israel by the antichrist and his armies.
  • Verse 10 I believe this is aligning with revealing of the antichrist leading up to the abomination of desolation.
  • Verse 11-12 his plan to invade Israel that is dwelling in the safety of covenant with its enemies.
  • Verse 13 these people groups seemed to be in Saudi Arabia. They are descendants of ham, they may stretch a little south into Yemen and the UAE, but is safe to say the are on the Arabian Peninsula (The people groups spoken of in verse 2 are Japhethian peoples)
  • Verses 14-17 God will bring the antichrist and his armies against Israel in a time when they feal safe. The sovereignty of God in this end time event is to make Himself known not only to Israel but also to the nations.
  • Verses 18-20 God will avenge His people Israel and will come to their rescue. We know from several other passages that their will be a massive earthquake at the time of Jesus’ return. “Mountains being thrown down and steep places falling” is speaking to the fall and dismantling of the principalities of the air that are in rebellion to Yahweh and are influencing inhabitants of the earth.
  • Verses 21-22 As we will see in the book of revelation, the Lord will be releasing many judgement events on the earth that will be targeted towards the antichrist and his military conquest.
  • Verse 23 The result of the events of the last 3 ½ years leading up to the return of Jesus is that everyone will know when He returns that He is Lord, both His followers and enemies!

Conclusion

Gog or the antichrist will used by God to bring judgement on Israel and to ultimately set up a climactic end when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will return and openly conquer the enemies of Israel and all who dwell on the earth will know that Jesus is Yahweh!

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Episode 32 Ezekiel 38 & 39 part 1 Who is Gog and Where Does He Come From?

• Ezekiel 38:1-8
• Introduction
  • Ezekiel 38 & 39 are called the oracle of Gog of Magog
  • These chapters bring in more detail of the military conquest of the antichrist figure at the end of the age.
  • There is controversy on who Gog pertains to, where he comes from, and when he exists.
• Ezekeil 38:1-3
  • Gog is of the land of Magog, and he is the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
    • We need build a foundation for this passage
    • Genisus 3:14-15
      • Protoevangelium, the fall man, the curse, and the coming redemption.
    • Numbers 24
      • Balak is the king of the Moabites and Balak is getting nervous because the Israelites are encroaching on his kingdom so he hires Balaam to curse the Hebrews, but Balaam says he will only speak what he is given and he sees that it pleases the Lord to bless Israel.
    • Verse 1 Balaam could hear the spirit of God as well as other spirits.
    • Verse 2 He was speaking through the Spirit of God
    • Verse 3-4 Balaam self-exhortation (which was common in those who tapped into the spiritual rehlm).
    • Verse 5-6 He describes the beauty of Israel and their being those of Yahweh.
    • Verse 7 his seed, being the seed of Israel, the same seed spoken of in Genisus chapter 3. His king, the seed of Israel, shall be higher than “Agag”.
      • My bible beside Agag says or “Gog”. The Masoretic text says Agag, the Septuagint says “Gog”. I believe “Gog” is the accurate translation.
    • Ezekeil 38
      • Verse 2 Gog always represents the antichrist in the Old Testament, he represents the seed of Satan that will be crushed by the seed of the woman. So Gog is the antichrist, he comes from Magog and is the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
      • Verse 3-4 The seed of the woman, the Messiah will crush the antichrist.
      • Verse 5 Persia=modern day Iran, Ethiopia=modern day Sudan, Libya=western North Africa.
      • Verse 6 Gomar and Tagarmah=Turkey.
        • Because of the phraise the “Far North” many modern schollars and teachers contribute the place where the antichrist will come out of as Russia. Why? The hermeneutic they use is tracing the names of this oracle through their blood line to their current location. The problem here is they only do that for Magog, the rest of the names they use their location from Ezekiel’s time. This is an improper hermeneutic! We have to do one or the other, either track all the names to their current locations or interpret them as they are from Ezekiel’s day. If we where to track all these names to their current locations the antichrist would come out of yes Russia but would be the chief prince of northern Europe and the Americas. This makes absolutely no sense to the story of the bible! If we look at the names from verse 2 in Ezekiel’s day they all come out of Asia minor or modern day Turkey. As we have discussed before, many or even most of modern western scholars teach that the antichrist comes out of revived Roman empire so using these names as they are in Ezekiel’s time would not fit that narrative. So they take one and change the hermeneutic to fit in their narrative.
      • Verse 7-8 The phrase latter days is key word that this is the end times, verse 8 is awesome because Ezekiel is prophesying about the time in which we live now. For the first time in 2000 years the people of Israel have been brought out of the nations and back to their land and they dwell safely!
    • Conclusion: Gog is always referred to as the seed of the snake from Genisus 3 or we would call him the antichrist. A consistent hermeneutic of using the locations mentioned in this oracle would teach us that Gog (the antichrist) will come out of Turkey. The locations of verse 2 are all Asia minor or modern-day Turkey, the locations of verse 5 are Iran, Sudan, Libya. The nations form verse 6 are both Turkey. So 9 locations ALL middle eastern that are under the control of Gog and are prepared for battle.

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Episode 31 Daniel Part 12 The Great Tribulation and The Restoration of ALL Things

• Daniel 11:36-12:13
• Introduction and review
  • 11:21-11: is the rise of the antichrist
  • 11:31-45 The conquest during tribulation
  • 12:1-3 Israels restoration and the resurrection from the dead
  • 12:4-13 Details about the tribulation
  • Verse 36 grammatically is the same person as verse 21
• Verse 36 grammatically this is the same person as verse 21. There is no interpretive language that separates this man from the man inverse 21. To have a changes here is to take pour hermeneutic liberties. And again its birthed out of a presupposition of a revived Roman empire.
• Verses 37-39 after the abomination of desolation the antichrist introduces himself as the God above all Gods. In essents introduces a new religion and breaks away from the religion of his fathers.
• Verses 40-45 military conquests of the antichrist.
• 12:1-3 Micheal the protecting angel of Israel will stand up in protection of Israel and leading to the great tribulation and the restoration of Israel and the resurrection of the dead in Christ. The maskileam will rise and fulfill the purpose of God and will be the Church in splendor at the end of the age.
• Verse 4 proof text that the man and the events that we are reading about are the end time antichrist and that this prophecy is for those on the earth at the end of the age. As more people engage in these prophecies there will become more and more understanding.
• Verses 5-7 The angels giving interpretive timing factors for us to understand the timing of the tribulation and be able connect future text to the events of this prophecy. The power of the Jewish people will be shattered under the correction of almighty God, breaking their will, so they will acknowledge Him and He will then usher in, through the holy people, everlasting righteousness.
• Verse 8 Daniel is asking for more clarity.
• Verse 9 the words of this prophecy are for those at the end of the age.
• Verse 10 The maskileam who have understanding will be the Church that is purified and made white at the end of the age for the return of Jesus, those who don’t have understanding are subject to falling away to the wickedness of the time of the end.
• Verses 11-12 The mysterious 30 and 45 day periods.
  • We can only speculate what will be happening in this time period, I speculate that this has to do with the procession that is outlined in Isiah 63 and other passages, that Jesus will be coming up from Siani and into Jerusalem destroying His enemies. Gathering His Holy people and the nations to Jerusalem to go into judgement and setting up the end time feasts.
• Verse 13 we will see Daniel ourselves at the resurrection of the dead and he will have his part in the millennial Kingdom.