The End Times Scenario - Session 4 - Chuck Missler

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Well, I want to welcome you to session

four of the program. And uh let's uh do

something radical, especially after

lunch. Let's bow our hearts for a word

of prayer. Father, we thank you for the

day. We thank you for the blessings of

this day. And we pray, Father, that

you'd open our hearts and lives to your

word. And we seek your presence, Father,

in the person of the Holy Spirit to just

illuminate what you would have for us in

the days that remain as we commit

ourselves into your hands in the name of

Yeshua, our Lord, our King, our

Redeemer. Amen.

Okay. Well, we are in session four and

we're going to talk about a couple of

events that clearly are prior to the

Armageddon, but exactly when they take

place is a little ambiguous. one is

Babylon and we will talk about that. We

want to talk about the kings of the east

and each one of these are a study in

themselves but we're just primarily

working worrying about sequencing here.

But then of course we'll talk about a

thing called Armageddon

and uh we'll talk about the refuge in

Edom that may come as a surprise to many

and the sequence of events. Does he come

back on the Mount of Olives or does he

come back in Bazra or Petra? Those are

issues. And then of course it the big

thing is the second coming and we'll

talk about the kingdom. And it may be

astonishing to discover that there's

probably I'm guessing one maybe one

church in 10 that understands that the

kingdom is for real not just an

allegory. So we'll deal with that as we

go. The destiny of Babylon though there

are many books written many good

scholars that have various views about

that. We don't believe that Babylon is

the United States.

We don't think that Babylon is the

Vatican per se. We'll talk a little bit

about that. But I'm going to give you an

assignment that I want you to do when

you can do it in one sitting. I want you

to read six chapters of the Bible at one

sitting sometime. And I want you to read

Isaiah 13 and 14. I want you to read

Jeremiah 50 and 51. And those are fairly

large chapters. And I want you to read

Revelation 17 and 18.

All these will probably be familiar to

you if you have a serious Bible reading

pattern, but take a session where you

know it probably take an hour, but when

you can read them all at one sitting,

please do because you're going to make

some discoveries when you do that, but I

don't want you to copy mine. I want you

to do your own. But I want you to talk

about these Isaiah 13-14,

Jeremiah 50 and 51 and is and Revelation

17:18.

You'll discover that these passages

involve many nations attacking. Not a

single nation, many nations attacking.

That's true of of uh many of those

chapters. You'll discover if you're

reading perceptibly that this is a time

when Israel is in the land and it's

apparently forgiven, whatever that

means.

Both Isaiah and Jeremiah use a unusual

phrase. They say that this city called

Babylon will be destroyed suddenly. Um

they each use a term like Sodom and

Gomorrah. They use that phrase. How was

Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed?

Two things you know about it. Suddenly

in one hour as the expression goes and

secondly never to be rebuilt.

You can't find Sodom and Gomorra.

There's some theories about where it

might have been, but those are it's it's

conspicuous by its absence.

Apparently, Babylon, whatever it is, is

a city on the banks of the Euphrates

that's destroyed the same way according

to Isaiah and Jeremiah.

In fact, Isaiah and Jeremiah both

emphasize something else very

surprising, very critical. Once it's

destroyed, it is never again to be

rebuilt. In fact, even the bricks will

never be reused.

Now, the first thing you recognize is

that's not true today. The Babylon

that's been partially rebuilt there in

Iraq is used the old stuff. Later on,

we'll have one, one of the bricks there

in our display case. When we get the

display case set just outside this room,

we're going to have that on display.

This also is associated with the day of

the Lord, whatever that means.

And uh you get to uh and we're talking

about a literal Calaldian,

the pride of the Calaldian's excellency

on the banks of the Euphrates.

And um both Jeremiah and the book of

Revelation tie this to king's

fornication that they're drunk with

wine. They both use that phrase. And the

idea of scarlet and purple and the

golden cup are idioms that are used both

by Jeremiah and the book of Revelation.

So one of the things you'll encounter

when you read those passages together,

they somehow tie together.

So there is a sense in which the

revelation passage clearly has overtones

of the Vatican and Catholicism and all

of that. That's some many writers have

had a field day with that. Dave Hunt's

done a classic book called The Woman

That Rides the Beast, distinguishing the

woman from the beast that it's writing.

And his book is outstanding piece of

scholarship.

And if you're of Catholic background,

you're in for a shock because he really

has done his homework and it's well

documented. Woman rides the beast.

And uh when he presented his manuscript

to the priesthood study group, the group

had me do the rebuttal paper because

they assumed that I would have just the

opposite view that Dave Hunt did. And I

surprised everybody by saying both are

true. And I'll show you why I said that

before this is over here. But the doom

of Babylon, I want to focus on the fall

of Babylon back in 539 BC is a fact of

history. But it was conquered by the

Persians without a battle. Cyrus brags

about that. So yes, they conquered it.

They didn't destroy it. It was a

secondary capital for the Persian Empire

for years. It became Alexander's

uh capital when they conquered it from

the Persians. Babylon was a prominent.

It was captured but it was a wasn't

destroyed. Get that's a very many people

presume it was destroyed. No, it wasn't

destroyed. It was just conquered.

Now over the centuries it atrophies

as late as 75 A not BC AD the merchants

were still trying to make a go of it but

barely making it. It atrophied because

after Alexander made it his capital and

he dies, another city gets more

prominent and so it the Babylon starts

to decay gradually. Wasn't destroyed.

That's very important now. And it's

presently being rebuilt. Saddam Hussein

has spent millions of dollars in

archaeologists and and rebuilt part of

it. If you can go visit it today if you

make arrangement with the Marine Corps

that's guarding it. And there's a whole

thing about that by the way. Now that's

the fall of Babylon. Don't confuse the

fall of Babylon with the destruction of

Babylon described especially by Isaiah

and Jeremiah

because it never to be inhabited after

it's destroyed. That's obviously never

happened.

The judgment of Isaiah and Jeremiah has

never happened and it's dramatic enough

to be very noteworthy and it hasn't

happened. The building material is never

reused is what the passage requires.

The rebuilding that's been going on is

using the old bricks and stuff and

making a thing of it.

like Sodom and Gomorrah suddenly and

completely. That's what the scripture

calls for. The question in your heart

and mind is,

is that going to happen?

Isaiah and Jeremiah detail it. So, it's

yet future. That's the point. So, that

leaves us with an enigma because if

Babylon is going to be destroyed the way

the scripture describes it, it has to

reemerge in in history because it's not.

It's it's a relative system ruins that

tourists visit right now.

That's got to change.

So, I want you to be sensitive to that

because that's a sign that's not on a

horizon yet.

And it's also a sign that won't be

sudden.

It may just be destroyed suddenly, but

it's got to rise to power. And that

usually doesn't happen quickly. That

happens over the con, you know,

confluence of political and geopolitical

events of some kind. Okay?

and mystery Babylon and Revelation is a

whole another can of peas because it

obviously deals with some ecclesiastical

issues

and when I was called upon to do the

rebuttal Dave Hunt the rebuttal of Dave

Hunts thing we're both good friends but

I was the guy picked they always do that

they have someone present a paper and

then somebody else do a they expected me

to because they knew I had a literal

Bablin orientation and I surprised

everybody by pointing out that I agree

with everything that Dave Hunt has laid

out in his book except he's so fixated

on the Vatican aspect, he's blind in a

sense to what I call the literal aspect.

And I think they're both true.

Okay. So, the the link that ties them

together,

I believe, is a vision that occurs in

Zechariah chapter 5. There's a very

strange vision there, unexplained. It's

just there and about the woman and Epha.

And Zechariah is full of these little

tidbits. They're uh incredible little

things.

Then the angel that talked with me he

says went forth and said unto me lift up

now thine eyes and see what it is that

goeth forth. Now this if you're familiar

with your Bible very often you lift up

your eyes is sort of a prelude to

something important. When Abraham lifted

up his eyes or whoever lift up that's

always sort of a prelude to something

significant coming. Well here Zechariah

the angel talked with me. He said lift

up now thine eyes Zechariah and see what

is that's coming forth. And I said what

is it? And he said, "This is an epha

that goeth forth." And he said,

"Moreover, this is the resemblance

through all the earth." Now, this is a

vision. Okay? An epha is a large

commercial volumetric measure, roughly a

bushel. So, just visualize a big tub,

but it's a standard unit commercially in

that culture. Picture it like just a

great big jar, so to speak, large enough

to be in fact large enough to hold a

person put into it. Okay? And behold,

there was lifted up a talent of lead.

Now, a talent was the basic unit of

weight, roughly almost 100 pounds, about

97 pounds in the English system. I don't

know what it is in kilograms, but we'll

I won't show my ignorance there right

now. Now, behold, there was lifted up a

town of lead, and this is a woman that

sitth in the midst of the epha.

So, the image that's being presented in

this vision is this large jar.

A woman is put into it that has a name.

She's called wickedness.

And they take a large lead

top and seal her in there.

Weird, right? It gets weirder in a

minute. Okay. And the the angel says,

"This is wickedness." And he cast it

into the midst of the epha, that is the

woman. And he cast the weight of lead

upon the mouth thereof. So this woman is

sealed up in this epha.

Well, that's pretty weird, but let's

see. This is a vision. Understand? Okay.

And then I lifted up mine eyes, and I

looked, and behold,

there came out two women, and the wind

was in their wings, for they had wings

like the wings of a stork. Now,

remember, this is Jewish, and a stork is

an unclean bird. So, let's keep that

flavoring is going on here. This is

these aren't angels. There's two women

comes out. They're going to carry this

thing away. Let's watch this. I lifted

up my eyes and looked, and behold, there

came out two women. The wind was in

their wings. For they had wings like the

wings of a stork. And they lifted up the

epha between the earth and heaven.

Okay, I can understand why Zechariah is

a little puzzled by all this. Okay, had

wings like that. That's a clue that this

is occultic. This is dark. This is not

good.

Then said I to the angel that talked

with me, "Whi do they bear the epha?"

They're carrying. They're picking this

thing up in between earth and heaven.

They're going to carry it somewhere. And

here's the key to the whole thing.

And he said unto me, to build it an

house in the land of Shinar, and it

shall be established, and set there upon

her own base.

Wow.

Now, to understand history a little bit,

um, you need to have some history.

You discover when you study idolatry

that all idolatry had its origins in

Babylon. Babel formed by Nimrod. Uh all

the sinister stuff that is false worship

had its origin in Babylon.

Babylon ultimately gets overrun

um by the Persians and subsequently by

the Greeks and then by the Romans.

The priests always follow the money. So

when Babylon is taken over by the

Persians that priesthood and this is a

matter of history picks up and moves to

Procepilus in Persia.

Okay. And it and when they get conquered

by the Greeks and the Romans that power

center gets moved to Rome.

When you study pagan Rome it is the

Babylonian system with Latin names. All

the idols and stuff that were in Babylon

go to Pepilus then there to to to Rome.

That's the staging. In fact, uh

Pergamus, I should say that's a

precipus. I'm saying Pergamus is where

they go to. And Pergamus is described in

the later seven churches as where

Satan's throne is. So if you visualize

the seed of idolatry as being Babylon,

it moves to Pergamus

and it ultimately moves from there to

Rome. So, pagan Rome is simply a

repackaging of the Babylonian mysteries,

but in with Latin names. Are you with

me? Well, here now we have an image in

which wickedness, whatever that means,

is sealed in a container and two

creatures, whatever they are, these two

women with wings of a stork, pick it up

and take it where it all started. They

go, Shenar is the plane where Babylon

sits. If Babylon's a city, Shenar is the

is the county so to speak. Okay. So the

these the vision is that the system

which has left Babylon apparently gone

to Pergamus and then to Rome is going to

go back be picked up and somehow migrate

back to where it all started to build it

a house in the land of Shenar. It shall

be established and set there up on her

own base. So it's a return to origins if

you will. That's my that's my premise.

And what's interesting is if I

understand mystery Babylon as being that

system, as we now associate it with um

the the Vatican and all of that, somehow

that power center is destined to go back

to where it all started. Okay, so that's

the the woman in the Epha. The epha is

the woman called wickedness is put

inside sealed in with a talent of lead

carried by two women with the wings of a

stok between earth and heaven to build a

house in the land of Shenar and it shall

be established and set there upon her

own base.

So I I love this scenario I'm about to s

suggest to you because I build it

entirely from my perception of what the

text says not what not the current news

clips. I do not believe that Babylon

refers to the United States or New York

or Hollywood or any of that nonsense.

What I suspect is going to happen is the

power center in a global sense is going

to migrate back to Babylon where it

started and the religious system will

recenter itself there also to receive

the judgments not only that Isaiah and

Jeremiah talk about but the judgments

that revelation talks about mystery

Babylon. mother of all harlots.

It's the origin of all false worship.

So, u now

changing the subject, that's the Babylon

thing. Um um before before I uh let me

do something here. If I I'm going to

cheat here a little bit. Um

we're this is supposed to be a scenario

uh end time scenario, not a update on

trends. But I'm going to just insert a

parenthetical comment that you can dig

into if you like.

There is a highly classified project we

happen to know about to connect all the

main fiber optic

uh communication from the east with that

of Europe. And that hub is being

installed in Iraq.

And um you would think that with a 115

acre embassy being built in Baghdad,

with all the communications that an

embassy like that would have, especially

in time of war, you would think that a

communication hub would be more

naturally put next door to that so we

can take advantage of it. No. It turns

out that the hub that's being built is

highly classified for reasons I don't

want to get into, but that hub is being

built 55 miles to the south of Baghdad,

not where the embassy is. It's built

being built in a place called guess

what? Babylon.

There's no reason for it to be there.

That's obvious. And it's a mystery to

many as why is it going on there? We

don't know. But it is going on. It's

been confirmed by some vendors and some

other things. Um, that means somebody

has a plan. There's some reason it's

there, not where it would be convenient

to be more convenient to put it to

connect as a master hub between Asia and

Europe. And it's going to be apparently

done there. So, I mentioned that in

passing

because there are white papers being

circulated in the beltway in the US

studying the possibility of moving the

UN. The UN believes they have to get out

of New York because there's no more

space. They're out of space. They've got

to expand. They're frustrated. They want

to move. There's discussions in that

regard. The New Yorkers would love to

get them out of town because it's a

nightmare to try to run a city with

several hundred diplomats that are

immune to arrests. It's a nightmare. It

really is. The the the glory is gone.

It's just a headache. The New Yorkers

would like him out. The Americans would

like them out of to have them out of the

US. Where do you move the If you had to

move the UN, where would you do it? You

wouldn't go to Paris, Rome, or London

because they're competitors.

The European Union is a competitor to

the UN for global influence.

If you were going to move the UN, you

would ask yourself, okay, what's the

biggest challenge to mankind over the

next 50 years? The answer is probably

energy.

Why not replant the UN right in the

middle of the oil patch? And there's

studies going on about the possibility

of moving into Iraq to stabilize Iraq.

have UN troops replace the Americans

that are there and uh that they would be

the hero to the Muslims. They would

consider it a trophy. The Americans

would applaud it to get it out of town

for their reasons. It's sort of a

win-winwin in the minds of some people.

There's just talk, nothing official.

If you see in the newspaper

that there's serious talk of moving the

UN there, our phones will probably ring

off the wall because we've been selling

this for a couple of years and there's

no evidence of it yet other than a few

things I've told you. So, we'll just

watch that with fascination as it goes

on. Let's change the subject.

There is some reference to some people

in the Bible.

Behold, these come from afar. below

these from the north and these from the

west and these which are the only ones

left of the east from the land of Sinnim

and that's a term that antidates China

and u uh revelation 16:12 and the sixth

angel poured out his vial upon the great

river Euphrates and the water thereof

was dried up that the way of the kings

of the east might be prepared

and we read in the prophetic scriptures

that the antichrist is right in the

middle of his shenanigans in Daniel 11

and then trembles because the kings of

the east are entering into the fray. So

that uh is an issue and one of the

things I don't want to get into the

details here except just a broad

perspective. Asia is moving to become a

global power shift. Of course, you know,

it's interesting how the ancient empires

start from Mesopotamia and they migrate

westward

from from Babylon to Persia to Greece

and then to Rome and uh and then to the

north northern Europe. Each of the

nations had their shot at it. The Dutch

had their shot, Spain with her armada,

France with Napoleon, you name it,

England as mistress of the seas. Each

one of those had their day in the sun

for a while, but obviously that power

shift m continues to migrate westward

and clearly the 20 19th and 20th century

as Henry Loose so well said is the the

20th century was the American century

and indeed it was but that was the

previous century a previous millennium

actually and so it continues to move

westward and clearly any observer

recognized today that the future future

of the planet earth in the 21st century

will be the Asian century. They are

predicting that India and China together

will accom

more than 50% of the gross domestic

product of the planet earth by the year

n what is it 2020 those are different

estimates right in that range but the

point is it isn't going to stop there

okay we I believe it's going to continue

to migrate where to back where it all

started the final kingdom is going to be

established where it all started and

that's what Nebuchadnezzar has in his

name. We'll take a look at that. But in

any case, he gathered them together in a

place called in the Hebrew tongue

Harmageddon. Har is a mount. Megiddo is

a place that's an actual location of the

planet. It's become an idiom in

literature. Armageddon is sort of the

final crash of some kind. No, it's a

literal place on the planet Earth. And

there literally is a confrontation

there. And where is it? Okay. Well,

we have um kings of the south somehow,

whoever they are, precipitate a series

of events. There's a king of the north

who's coming in. And just about the time

the antichrist is getting nervous. Oh,

by the way, there's also many maps in

prophecy books have a European

Confederacy, which is based on a

misunderstanding of Daniel 9:27, but

we'll move on out of there. But then the

kings of the east show up as part of

this drama in Daniel 11. and you can

look at that but recognizes European

Confederacy doesn't show up in the text.

It's a contrivance by some prophecy

writers who assumed that somehow the

European Union is going to be a player

here and it's not clear that the text

doesn't mention it and we look at the

shambles that is that the European Union

is going into. It may come grace is

obviously unravel going to unravel and

Spain right behind them. So it's a mess.

So that may or may not be a factor.

Daniel 11 speaks of kings of the south

precipitating king of the north

responding and kings of the east coming

in terrifying the antichrist himself

with their presence and u so and the

people of the prince shall come shall

destroy the city and sanctuary and

that's where I want to point out this

idea of a western European confederacy

derives from misunderstanding

the people of the prince that shall come

as being they're Assyrians they're not

Romans they're not European necessarily

because they were conscripts And so,

okay, so

that this all brings us to the climax in

Revelation 19. And John says, "I fell at

his feet to worship him, and he said to

me, see thou do it not. I am thy fellow

servant and of thy brethren that have

testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the

testimony of Jesus is a spirit of

prophecy." And uh so that is so heavens

opened and and I saw heaven open and

behold a white horse and he that sat on

him was called faithful and true and in

righteousness he doth judge and make

war. It's amazing how many commentaries

on the book of Revelation misunderstand

the first horseman because he's wearing

a white horse and they mistake him for

the for the Christ. No, that's the

point. He is an he's a false Christ

because he's riding in bad company.

death and hell follows with him and so

forth. And and and I don't get into all

that here, but anyway. Um so, uh

heaven's opened here. He saw heaven open

just like it was at his baptism. And so

now he's not they here. He's not coming

in the air to take his people home.

That's in 1 Thessalonians 4 as you

recall. But he's coming to the earth

with his people to conquer his enemies

and establish his kingdom. Different

different agenda here. And uh so may

recall when Jesus opened his ministry in

the synagogue at Nazareth, he read from

Isaiah very formally. And what he read

was Isaiah 61.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me

because the Lord hath anointed me to

preach good thing good tidings to the

meek. He hath sent me to bind up the

brokenhearted. He proclaimed liberty to

the captives and the opening of the

prison to them that are bound and to

proclaim the acceptable year of the

Lord. What finishes? What comes right

after the word Lord there?

a comma, not a period.

But that's where Jesus stopped reading,

closed the book, and said, "This day is

this prophecy fulfilled in your ears."

Now, he didn't read the whole thing. The

part that he didn't read is significant.

And the day of vengeance of our God,

that comma has lasted 2,000 years. This

is what he's finishing. He started

2,000 years ago, but he's going to

finish it here shortly.

This scripture is f this day is this

this day is the scripture fulfilled in

your ears. So now he's competing the

mandate here and that comma as I say

lasted has lasted 2,000 years

and the day of vengeance of our god.

That's what this is all about. And uh so

his eyes was a flame of fire, his head

were many crowns, and he had a name

written that no man knew but he himself.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped

in blood. That's not his blood. It's the

blood of his enemies. And it name is

called, what's his name? The word of

God. It's fascinating how often John

uses that phrase. He even opens his

gospel with that phrase. I think he

learned it from here.

But he doesn't come back to the Mount of

Olives. We all are taught that he comes

back to the Mount of Olives. Mount of

Olives splits. Indeed, it does, but not

yet. There's something else he's going

to do. We know from the scripture that

the remnant of believers that are there

at this time take refuge in Bazra in

place called Petra in the in the Greek

Bazer and the other. And uh so these the

forces there is no battle of Armageddon

by the way. That's where the forces

gather. He gathers them in a place

called Armageddon. That's the plane of

Jezrael.

Megiddo has the relationship Jerusalem

that England had to the Normandy

invasion. It was a gathering place for

the troops. They cross the channel and

they land. And you know the you know the

story of World War II. The analogy is

that Armageddon isn't the the battle

actually. It's the gathering place, the

target of the forces. theoretically is

Jerusalem except they discover that the

remnant has split to Bazra. So it shifts

and you'll see this in the scripture.

The remnants fled to Petra in the Greek

or Bazra and that is the as Satan's

primary target. And so the Lord's return

is initially there in Petra.

That's not a contrivance by some

prophecy writer. That's what Isaiah

tells you in Isaiah chapter 63. Let's

take a look at it.

Who is this that cometh from Edom with

dyed garments from Bazra? This that is

glorious in his apparel traveling in the

greatness of his strength. I that speak

in righteousness mighty to save. Who is

in righteousness and mighty to save? Our

Messiah.

Wherefore, and as if he turns to him,

wherefore art thou red in thine apparel

and thy garments like him that treadth

in the wine fat? Jesus is appearing, but

he's covered with blood and it's not his

blood.

Strange. I have troden the wine press

alone, and of the people there was none

with me. I will tread them in mine anger

and trample them in my fury, and their

blood shall be sprinkled upon my

garments, and I will stain all my

reignmenment. For the day of vengeance

is in mine heart, and the year of my

redeemed has come.

Wow, Isaiah. Heavy stuff. Heavy stuff.

But he goes on, "And I looked, and there

was none to help, and I wondered that

there was none to uphold. Therefore,

mine own arm brought salvation unto me,

and my fury it upheld me. And I will

tread down the people in mine anger, and

make them drunk in my fury, and I will

bring down their strength to the earth."

My goodness.

See, back to Revelation 14. And the wine

press was trotten without the city, and

the blood came out of the wine press,

even unto the horse's bridles.

Wow, that's 4 foot deep, huh? By the

space of 1,600

furlongs.

What on earth is that about?

You know, a furlong is a is about 600,

forget English and all that. The point

is, 1600 furongs turns out to be 176

miles. Okay. And what does that have to

do with then? See, a furlong is about

600 feet itself. Okay. And uh so

well if you measure the distance between

Megiddo or Meageddon and Petra, guess

how far it is? It's 176 miles.

So that's kind of interesting to me.

I'll let you chew on that one and put

that in your notes and see what you make

of that because that's where he comes

back first. He makes his appearance

there to for the sake of the remnant to

fight their enemies and then returns to

Jerusalem in a victory. uh approach to

the Mount of Olives where it splits in

two and all that stuff. So he leaves

heaven to come to the earth for the last

battle

and he warned them of this when he was

under oath before the high priest.

Matthew 26:64

and uh and even at Pentecost when the

church was born, Peter makes reference

to this day. And uh so

and as angels that we know from Matthew

13 and other places that the angels are

with them, but also we are with them

according to 1 Thessalonians 3 and 2

Thessalonians 1 and Hebrews 2 and number

other passages. And the armies which

were in heaven followed him upon white

horses clothed in fine linen, white and

clean. And uh and out of his mouth goeth

a sharp sword

that with it he should smite the

nations. He shall rule them with a rod

of iron. Boy, that identity is all over

the place. And he treadth the wine press

of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty

God. You and I can't imagine. We can't

imagine

the fierceness and wrath of an almighty

God. that is just goes beyond our

horizon here. And so

this isn't the rapture, but is the

apocalypse, the unveiling of Christ, the

revelation. It's not in the air, but

it's in the on the earth. It's not for

the saints. It's with the saints. It's

not to comfort, but to conquer. Big

difference. Not to protect us in heaven,

but to rule with us on the earth. That's

what's at stake here. We need to

understand that.

And so, and he had on his vesture and on

his thigh a name written, King of Kings

and Lord of Lords.

So, there's no doubt about who the rider

of the white horse in Revelation 19 is,

but it's a warrior image here. This I

saw an angel standing in the sun. He

cried with a loud voice, saying to all

the fowls that fly in the midst of

heaven, come and gather yourselves

together unto the great to supper of the

great God, that you may eat the flesh of

kings, and the flesh of captains, the

flesh of mighty men, the flesh of

horses, and of them that sit on them,

and the flesh of all men, both free and

bond, and small and great. Wow, heavy

stuff here. And uh and I saw the beast

as of Revelation 13 and the kings of the

earth and their armies gathered together

to make war against him that sat on the

horse and against his army. You know,

that is flabbergasting.

You and I can understand why people

don't believe in God. Don't condone it,

but understand it. I find it

unimaginable that people would take up

arms, knowingly take up arms against

God. You got to be kidding. Denying him

is one thing. Paying up arms against him

in an organized deliberate manner is

beyond our imagining in my mind at

least.

To make war against him that sat on the

horse. And yet that's in Psalm 2. We're

going to take Psalm 2 apart as we go

here because I think it's it's

fundamental about all this stuff. And u

see the coming world later is going to

go forward with great fury. We know from

Daniel 11 and Joel 2 and Daniel in

Isaiah 24 and what have you there's

going to be a great motorized army

according to Nahhem 3 a raid in red

incidentally Nahhem 2 and uh we'll swing

into the area a prerequisite to the

second coming is a petition by the

remnant taking refuge in the east

according to Hosea 5

and by the way there's not any mention

of any struggle Jesus just takes care of

it and so let's take a look at Psalm two

Psalm Psalm 2 is one of the most

overlooked prophet prophecy passages in

the Bible. Psalm 2 opens up. Why do the

heathen rage and the people imagine a

vain thing?

The kings of the earth set themselves

and the rulers take counsel together

against who? The Lord and against his

anointed, saying, "Let us break their

bands under and cast away their cords

from us." You got to be kidding.

What chords are they talking about? What

kinds of bands of sunder are they

talking about? Okay, that's an

interesting question. What bands or

chords?

Marriage.

That's what that was instituted by God

in Genesis chapter 3. And today it's

under attack by the world.

Really?

That would heterosexuality is an issue

here. the Ten Commandments.

These are all chords that people want to

get rid of. The rule of law,

even in the United States, they have

abandoned the the Bill of Rights. It was

their cherished background.

Psalm two, we're going to take a look at

the voice of the nations. The first

three verses are the voice of the

nations. Then we're going to hear the

voice of the Father, then the voice of

the Son, and then the voice of the Holy

Spirit. the father son. We have the the

trinity there in front of us. So, we've

heard the voice of the nations. I've

just read those to you. Let's take a

look at the next couple of verses, which

is the voice of the father in response

to like the world is going to take up

arms against God. You got to be kidding.

Let's see what happens here. He that

siteth in the heavens shall laugh.

The Lord shall have them in derision.

Then shall he speak unto them in his

wrath, and vex them in his sore

displeasure. Yay. Yet have I set my king

upon the holy hill of Zion. Wow. Okay.

By the way, that's another reputation of

millennialism.

What do you do with this? Tell ye and

bring them near. Yay, let them take

counsel together. Who hath declared this

from ancient time? Who hath told it from

that time? This is Isaiah. I'm sorry.

Isaiah 45. Have not I the Lord? And

there is no God else beside me. A just

God and a Savior. There is none beside

me. Look unto me and be ye saved all the

ends of the earth. For I am God and

there is none else. So that's Isaiah's

response. He's not finished. He has

more. I have sworn by myself. The word

has gone out of my mouth in

righteousness and shall not return. That

unto me every knee shall bow and every

tongue shall swear. Surely shall one say

in the Lord have I righteousness and

strength. Even to him shall men come and

all that are incensed against him shall

be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the

seed of Israel be justified and shall

glory. Every knee shall bow, every

tongue can shall swear. In Philippians,

we have the inverse of all of this. Let

this mind be in you which is also in

Christ Jesus. Who being the form of God

thought it not something to be grasped

to be equal with God, but made himself

of no reputation but took him on him the

form of a servant was made like men. and

being found in fashion as a man, he

humbled himself and became obedient unto

death, even the death of the cross. But

he continues, "Wherefore God hath highly

exalted him, and given him a name which

is above every name, that at the name of

who? Yeshua or Jesus, every knee shall

bow of things in heaven and of things in

earth, and things under the earth." Boy,

that's an interesting grouping.

And every tongue should confess that

Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God

the Father. And we'll be talking more

about that in session six. The name of

Jesus, every knee should bow. Well,

let's go back at Psalm two here and

we're going to take we've been looking

at the voice of the father and the son

and the voice of the spirit. Let's take

let's see what the son says in verse 7

to9. And uh so

now the son is quoting the father here.

I will declare the decree. The lord hath

said unto me, thou art my son. This day

have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I

shall give thee the heathen for thine

inheritance, and the uttermost parts of

the earth for thy possession. And thou

shalt break them with a rod of iron, and

thou shalt dash them in pieces like a

potter's vessel. Boy, that doesn't sound

very delicate, does it? And with a rod

of iron again, there we go again. That

rod of iron shows up everywhere in the

letter seven churches. He shall rule

them with a rod of iron and the as the

vessels of potter, they shall be broken

into shivers even as I received of my

father. That's an identity piece in

among the letters of seven churches. And

uh so we find we find that everywhere.

And uh so

brought forth a manchild who is to rule

all the nations. That's in Revelation

12. We find that rod of iron thing all

through the scripture. Out of his mouth

go a sharp sword that it shall be shall

smite the nations. He shall rule them

again with a rod of iron. Again and

again and again we find that. So let's

go on here. And u so we have the voice

of the nations, the voice of the father.

And uh so let's we'll have take a look

at the voice of the Holy Spirit responds

to all of us telling us what to do about

this conversation in effect. And so he

the Holy Spirit says be wise now

therefore ye kings be instructed ye

judges of the earth.

Serve the Lord with fear

and rejoice with trembling.

I'm doing I'm researching a briefing

pack in the whole area of the beginning

of wisdom or the fear of God.

I hear many pastors say, "Well, the fear

of God, that's just, you know,

reverence. Awesome reverence." No. The

word, there's 18 of them in Hebrew in

the Old Testament. They involve

trembling

and take him to take God seriously.

God's not our buddy. He's God. He's our

savior. Praise God. And he's a God of

grace. Praise God. But we should serve

the Lord with fear. And even our rejoice

should be with trembling.

do homage to the son lest he be angry

and ye perish from the way when his

wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed

are all they that put their trust in

him. Wow. So that's a

there's another prophecy by the way.

It's the oldest prophecy in the Bible.

It's a prophecy that was before the

flood of Noah.

A prophecy by a guy by the name of

Enoch.

And u Enoch also the seventh from Adam

prophesied of these things saying behold

notice the prophecy. This is the oldest

prophecy in the Bible.

Behold the Lord cometh with 10,000 of

his saints.

Really? And behold the Lord the prophecy

of the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Okay. And uh it's uttered before the

flood of Noah. I want to sink in. That's

astonishing.

and to to execute judgment upon all, and

to convince all that are ungodly among

them, of all their ungodly deeds which

they have ungodly committed, and of all

their hard speeches which ungodly

sinners have spoken against him. He's

got ungodly there what three or four

times. It seems like he has a vocabulary

problem. You think there'd be some

synonyms he'd be using, but um the

second coming appears to focus on the

widespread ungodliness, apostate and

otherwise. So, we are in the Leodysian

period. This doesn't surprise me.

There's four times he uses that term.

So, we know that the Lord's coming is

sure. We know who will accompany him.

And we know the purpose of his coming.

And we know the result of his coming.

This is all in Enoch's prophecy. He lays

it out for us.

And we know his coming is sure. We have

the assurance of the use of the past

tense just like in Revelation 19. And

like history, nothing can change it. The

reason prophecy is always in the past

tense is to underscore that it's

unchangeable even though it hasn't

happened yet. Interesting. He's able to

subdue all things to himself. Paul warns

us. And so secondly, we know who'll

accompany him. He'll accompany with his

holy myriads, his holy thousands. And

Moses says 10 thousands of holy ones in

in in some of his passages. And Christ

return all the holy angels. Matthew 25

and believers also in Colossians 3 and 1

Thessalonians 3. So there's a crowd

coming and in fact Jesus we're told that

we shall judge angels. Imagine that and

and we know the purpose of his coming.

The first and last prophecy given

through man focuses on his second coming

and judgment. The first one who was in

Enoch we've just read. The other one is

Revelation 22:20 just before the end of

the book.

Even so come Lord Jesus. Huh? He will

come to bring judgment or crisis is the

Greek the Greek term the crisis of Sm

that that term is used all through the

scripture and that's what judge and no

believer will ever come to crisis

according to John five a different word

is used and that's bema and we'll look

at that in section six that's the one

we're concerned with and who will be the

judge okay well the father judgeth no

man but committh all judgment to whom

his son

he's in charge

according to truth deed needs my gospel,

he says. And so

we know the result of all of this, of

his coming. The ungodly will be

convicted of all their works of

ungodliness. Praise God for that.

And one of the last words, "Depart from

me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire."

Wow. Heavy stuff. The books are open and

they're judged according to their works.

I don't want to be judged by white

works.

I want to be judged by his purchase of

me and his work, his righteousness.

No, I don't want to I don't want to

stand on my righteousness by any means.

Heavens and earth are reserved under

fire. Second Peter warns us which they

have ungodly wrought. And he looks at

God of course looks at the heart. And so

every every idle word that men speak,

they all have to give accountants for.

So who's going to be judged? Everybody.

Ouch. Really? He cometh to judge the

earth. Psalm 96. all nations according

to Joel 3 and Matthew 25 with their

cities in Matthew 11 and 12 every man

living or dead according to a number of

passages and fallen angels and so forth

in Isaiah 24 and and the demons in ma

Matthew 8. So

and the beast was taken and with him the

false prophet that wrought miracles

before him with which he deceived them

that had received the mark of the beast

and them that worshiped his image. These

both were cast alive into the lake of

fire that burns with brimstone. That's

not Hades, that's Gehenna, permanent.

Satan doesn't join them yet. He gets

incarcerated for a thousand years and

then released and he ultimately ends up

with them. And a thousand years later,

when Satan does join them, they're still

there burning. They're not consumed.

These are idioms for things we can't

imagine. We cannot imagine being

separated from God.

So

see these two are cast alive into the

Gehenna and there's two that are taken

alive into he heaven Moses and Elijah

later that's Revelation 11 but let's

move here and the remnant were slain

with the sword of him that set upon the

horse which sword proceeded out of his

mouth and all the fowls were filled with

their flesh and on it goes. Well then we

get of course to Zechariah 14 which is

familiar to most of you. I will gather

all the nations against Jerusalem to

battle. That's where they originally

gathered. They get diverted of course to

Bazer. And the city shall be taken, the

houses rifled, the women ravished, and

half the city shall go forth into

captivity, and the residue of the people

shall not be cut off from the city. Then

shall the Lord go forth and fight

against those nations, even as when he

fought in the day of battle.

Well, now there is an interesting final

exam question.

As when he fought in the day of battle,

when did Jesus fight in the day of

battle?

This is yet future, right? How the

Lord's going to fight in in Zechariah

14. When did he fight in the battle

previously?

Joshua 5.

He fought the battle of Jericho. Most

people don't realize that despite what

the song says. No, you need to read the

last few verses of chapter 5. You'll

discover that Joshua finds this guy with

a drawn drawn sword. He challenges him

like a sentry.

And the guy says, "Take off your shoes.

You're on hollow ground." And I and and

Joshua worship. Who is it? It's the Lord

Jesus Christ.

And the battle of Jericho violates every

rule in the Torah.

They're not supposed to have the ark go

to war. It leads the parade.

And they they're not supposed to do it

on Shabbat. On Shabbat, they do it seven

times, keeping silence until the last.

And the book of Joshua turns out to be a

model of the book of Revelation. If you

outline them both, you'll be in for some

very big surprises.

But anyway, let's go on here and

speaking of Jesus in Zechariah 14. And

his feet shall stand in that day upon

the Mount of Olives, which is before

Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of

Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof

toward the east and toward the west. And

there shall be a very great valley, and

half of the mountain shall move remove

toward the north and half of it to the

south. And it's my understanding on the

Mount of Olives is a very conspicuous

hotel, the Seven Arches. It used to be

the the

Pan-Americanowned

uh building hotel there. And when they

were building it, they discovered it was

a fault line they had to deal with.

There's a fault line goes right through

the Mount of Olives. Now, whether that

has to do with this or not is

speculation, but it's kind of

interesting. So, where are we now? Are

we gone through Armageddon? We're going

to talk about the kingdom. Now, the

kingdom. What on earth is the kingdom?

Well, when you read, when you do the

Lord's Prayer, you encounter Matthew

chapter 6:10.

In the Lord's Prayer, the Lord says,

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on

earth as it is in heaven."

What on earth are you praying for? I'm

going to suggest that probably one

Christian in 10 has any idea what he's

praying for when he does the Lord's

Prayer.

Thy kingdom come. What are you talking

about? If you're a millennial, you got a

big problem. Well, the kingdom of he

rules in our heart. Show me where.

Nonsense. No. Thy kingdom come. Thy will

be done on the earth. Nothing in heaven

or earth is more certain than that

prayer coming true. What is it talking

about?

the return of Christ to rule on the

earth. As I mentioned before, 1845

references in the Old Testament, 17

books he promised to it, 318 references

in the New Testament. And I've been we

this is a review thing. Okay.

I want you to be sensitive to the

covenants in your Bible. And there are

four of them that are unconditional.

There are some covenants that are

conditional. I'm not dealing with those.

I'm dealing with four that are

distinctive because they are

unconditional.

One of them is the Abrahamic covenant in

Genesis 12.

It's unconditional. There's no way you

can forfeit it. That's the Abrahamic

covenant. You're familiar with that, I'm

sure. There's the land covenant. Some

study Bibles call it the Palestinian

covenant. That's a tragic label because

that's using the label of their enemies.

I'm going to just call it the land

covenant in Genesis 15 and 17. And

there's a third covenant called the

Davidic covenant. It's unconditional

also in in 2 Samuel 7.

And then there's a fourth unconditional

covenant called the everlasting covenant

in Jeremiah 31:31. And that's the

covenant that gives the New Testament

its name. The new covenant, the New

Testament is named after Jeremiah 31:13.

So those are four covenants that are

unconditional.

Do you realize that three of those four

are under attack? Specifically,

who is attacking the Abrahamic covenant?

Answer: The world.

The world is very anti-semitic.

They're very against

um Abraham.

The United Nations

have over 60% of their resolutions are

against Israel.

There's 186 or whatever the number is

nations in the UN,

but 60% of the resolutions of the

General Assembly and about that same

percentage in the Security Council are

against Israel.

Clearly, Israel isn't that big an issue

compared to all the other issues before

the world. But you need to understand

how anti-semitic the UN actually is.

Well, there's a land covenant. Who is

challenging the land covenant?

Well, that's pretty obvious. Islam.

That Israel's right. The whole idea that

Israel is on their property is their

mentality.

They don't believe that God has uniquely

given that land to Israel as Genesis 15

and 17 underscore.

Okay. There's the Davidic covenant. And

this one will surprise you. Who is

challenging the Davidic covenant?

The church.

I would I'm guessing the statistics, but

I'd say about nine out of 10 churches

are a millennial. They don't believe in

a literal Davidic covenant. And we're

going to take a look at that because

that's so fundamental to you and me for

what's unfolding before us. Let's take a

look at the empowering passages here.

Now therefore, so shalt thou say unto my

servant David, thus sayith the Lord of

hosts, I took thee from the sheep coat,

from following the sheep to be ruler

over my people Israel, and I was with

thee, whethersoever thou wentest, and

have cut off all thine enemies out of

thy sight, and have made thee a great

name like unto the name of the great men

that are on the earth. Fair enough.

Moreover, I'll appoint a place for my

people Israel, and will plant them that

they may dwell in the place of their

own, and move no more. Neither shall the

children of wickedness afflict them

anymore as before time. And as since the

time that I have commanded the judges to

be over my people Israel, I've caused

thee to rest from all thine enemies,

also the Lord tellth thee that he will

make thee a make of thee a house a

house. And when thy days be fulfilled,

and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I

will set up thy seed after thee, which

shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I

will establish his kingdom. That's the

Davidic lineage of the Messiah. And he

shall build a house for my name and I

will establish the throne of his kingdom

forever. That's a long time.

I will be his father and he should be my

son. If you commit iniquity, I will

chasen him with rod of men and with

stripes of the children of men. But my

mercy shall not depart from him as I

took it from Saul whom I put away before

thee. And thine house and thy kingdom

shall be established for quite a few

years.

No, forever before thee. Thy throne

shall be established forever. Where is

it today? It's not around anywhere.

Interesting.

You get whenever around you get around

Christmas time, you always get Christmas

card. And you can always predict it.

Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and 7 are

always on make a great Christmas card.

For unto us a child is born. Unto us a

son is given. And the government shall

be upon his shoulder and his name shall

be called wonderful counselor, the

mighty God, the everlasting father, the

prince of peace. Familiar stuff, right?

Do you realize that a child is born and

a son is given is not synonymous?

A child is born is human.

A son is given is divine.

The child is born that occurred that

phrase occurred uh is distinct from a

son is given. A child is born occurred

in Bethlehem.

The son is given occurred in Goltha.

See, I'm always suspicious when

something looks like a synonym, but it

ain't. When you peel that onion, you

usually make a discovery. That's an

example. But let's go to the next verse.

Of the increase of his government peace,

there shall be no end. Upon the throne

of David, oo, what's that?

Upon his kingdom to order it and

establish it with judgment and with

justice, for henceforth, even forever

the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall

perform this.

Wow.

Where is that throne today?

My goodness.

These are Old Testament ideas. No,

they're not. They're in the New

Testament also. We find it at the

enunciation in Luke 1. We find it at the

ascension in Acts 1. We find it in the

council, the pivotal event of the count,

the book of Acts is called the council

of Jerusalem in Acts 15 and the kingdom

parables in Matthew 13. It goes on and

on. Let's take a look at few. Then the

millennium itself. Let's take a look at

the enunciation just quickly. Luke

1:31-33.

Ga Gabriel says to Mary, "Behold, thou

shalt conceive in thy womb and bring

forth a son, and shall call his name

Jesus. And he shall be called be great

and shall be called the son of the

highest. And the Lord God shall give

unto him what? The throne of his father

David. That's New Testament stuff. Did

the throne of David exist in that days?

No. Rome ran things. But that is that

going to happen? Absolutely. And he

shall reign over the house of Jacob

forever. And of his kingdom there shall

be no end. That's what we want to find

more about. Let's look at the ascension

book of Acts and uh he's resurrected and

so forth. And when they were all come

together, they ask of him. Here's the

Lord 40 days after his resurrection.

Lord, wil thou at this time restore

again the kingdom to Israel.

Notice what Jesus says. Everybody misses

this. And he said unto them, it is not

for you to know the times of the seasons

which the father hath put in his own

power. Do you realize what he's saying?

He's saying, he's confirming that he's

going to do it. He's just telling him

the timing is none of your business. But

that's a confirmation.

Wilt thou at this time restore again the

king of Israel? It's not for you to know

the times of the seasons.

It's not for the date setting issue that

he's chiding them over. Okay? Because

the God has put this in his own power.

He's going to do it when he's ready.

He's going to turn to the son one of

these days when the fullness of the

Gentiles is complete. He'll turn to his

son and say, "Go get him." And the

harpatu takes place and the final

scenario and takes off. Well, let's look

at the council of Jerusalem. This is a

big deal, pivotal in the book of Acts.

It's one of the most important

dispensational passages in the entire

New Testament according to Scoffield and

others.

They're meeting in Jerusalem

over two issues. The one issue is

obvious. They're meeting because their

concern over what does a gentile have to

do to become saved. That's a new thing

for them. They were up till then

primarily Jewish believers. Now Gentiles

are coming to faith and there's a big

debate going on. The sort of presumption

is it's like the old days. If you want

to get right with God, you be convert to

Jew Judaism and then accepted their

Messiah. And there and both Paul and

Peter and a group of others are

challenging that. They're having this

big to-do in the couch. And James, the

halfb brotherther of our Lord Jesus is

chairing it. And he quotes from Amos 9

to respond to them. But what many people

miss is there's two questions at issue.

The obvious question is what does a

gentile have to do to become saved? And

they answer that he does not have to

come he does not come under the law.

It's a very minimal thing. He doesn't

have to keep the Shabbat. Those are they

they they define the very minimalistic

thing. But that isn't the only issue.

There's another lurking issue. Okay, if

a Gentile doesn't have to become Jewish

to be saved, what's to become of Israel?

That's the lurking problem that James is

dealing with here in verse 15 and

following. And and so he says, "And to

this agree the words of the prophets as

is written." And then he's going to

quote from Amos 9 11 and 12. James

speaking. He says, "After this, I will

return and build again the tabernacle of

David, which has fallen down, and I will

build again the ruins thereof, and I

will set it up that the residue of men

might seek after the Lord, and all the

Gentiles upon whom my name is called,

sayeth the Lord, who doeth all these

things, and known unto God are all his

works from the beginning of the world."

He's quoting from Amos nine,

God speaking in Amos, saying, "After

this," there's another one of these,

"After this, I will return." Those

phrases fascinate me. there in the Old

Testament, God acknowledging that he's

going to return after having left him.

Apparently, after this, I'll return and

will build again the tabernacle of

David. That's not the temple of Solomon.

That's a palace of a king.

I will build again the tabernacle of

David, which has fallen down. Now, build

again the ruins thereof, will set it up.

Why? That the residue of men might seek

after the Lord, and all the Gentiles

upon whom my name is called, sayith the

Lord, who doeth all these things. Big

deal. Again, we've got the tabernacle of

David sitting here. It's fallen down and

built again and so forth. And that

echoes, if you will, the Hosea 5:15

thing. I will go and return to my place

till they acknowledge their offense and

seek my face. And in their affliction,

they will seek me earnestly. And so,

we've had that key along the way. Well,

let's go to the kingdom parables in

Matthew 13. Piv Matthew 12 is pivotal.

That's where the nation rejects him. So

from that day on, he never speaks in

public except in parables. So they won't

understand, not so they'll communicate,

so they'll hide the truth. Very strange.

Check it out. Read Matthew 13 carefully.

But it's interesting in Matthew 13,

Jesus answered and said to them,

"Because it is given unto you to know

the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,

but to them it is not given." Now, here

is a very strange phrase, mysteries of

the kingdom of heaven.

And 99 out of a hundred commentaries

will tell you that kingdom of heaven and

kingdom of God are synonymous. No,

they're not. We're going to prove that

here in a minute. This term in the New

Testament, it re it refers to truths not

revealed in the Old Testament, but which

are now made known to those that are

instructed. But I want to talk about

resolving power for a moment. You buy a

cheap telescope, go out of the night

sky, and you look at a star, and you see

a bright spot. Big deal. You go back to

that same store and spend a lot of money

and get a really, really good telescope

and look at that same star and you

discover it's really two stars.

There's a property in optics called

resolving power. Optics that are really

good can discern two things that are

very close together but not exactly the

same. They call that resolving power.

Same thing's true in language. There are

things that are almost synonymous but

not quite. And we'll take an example of

that.

There's a term used by Matthew, excuse

me, by Mark, Luke, and John called the

kingdom of God.

In passages that are very similar to

those, Matthew uses a term kingdom of

heaven.

And most commentators presume that those

two terms are synonymous.

And I'm going to show you that they're

not.

The kingdom of God of course is all in

all uh all inclusive. Everything outside

God himself. The angels were created

before the universe and the universe all

those everything created by God is the

kingdom of God. No problem. Within that

there's a subset called the kingdom of

heaven that Matthew uniquely talks

about. And it's interesting only Matthew

uses that term kingdom of heaven. He

uses it 33 times. And most commenters,

well, that's just his choice of words

because he's Jewish. Well, wait a

minute, guys. Five times he doesn't use

that term. He used kingdom of God. In

fact, one on one occasions he uses the

term adjacent

verses that are adjacent to each other.

One guy says that proves they're

synonymous. No, it proves they're not.

One is more specific than the other.

Kingdom of heaven is within the kingdom

of God. But Matthew is being more

definitive, okay? because he's using

that 33 times. Now, it's interesting in

Hebrew and in German, the word of and

from are identical.

If I say I'm Chuck of Idaho or I say I'm

Chuck from Idaho, you understand where

I'm it's it's a genative of source, not

a genative of apposition. And that's

exactly what Matthew is doing here. The

kingdom from heaven. If I say it's the

kingdom from heaven, that's clear. It's

a kingdom from heaven. If I say kingdom

of heaven, you get confused. Is that a

fuzzy fuzzy thing up in the clouds? What

is it? No, it's a kingdom on the earth

from heaven. It's what we call a

genative of source, not a genative of

opposition or equivalence. If if I say

I'm Chuck from Idaho, you know that

Idaho is my source. There's no

equivalence between me and Idaho. I'm

not part Idaho and it's not part of me.

You follow me? That's a genative of

apposition where they're

equivalency. No, that's what we're

talking about. talking about a source.

The king that came from heaven and

that's what he's talking about. And so

now the whole point of all of this is

let's go back and remember Daniel 2.

Remember the many metal image that dream

that Nebuchadnezzar had where he had

this metal head of gold, arm and chest

of silver and the belly and thighs of

brass and the legs of iron and the iron

mixed with clay. The stone cut without

hands smites the image and that stone

grows to be a mountain that fills the

whole earth. Not just Nebuchadnezzar's

place, but the entire world.

And that's a that's that is a fifth

kingdom. There are the four kingdoms of

the gold, silver, bronze, and the gold,

uh, silver, bronze, and iron. But

there's a fourth a fifth one. That's a

that's a kingdom.

And it's interesting as you look

through, you got Babylon and you got

Persia and you got Greece and you got

Rome in two phases and you have

apparently uh each one of these is

conquered by the previous one. But who

conquered Rome? No one did it. Broke

into pieces and those pieces are going

to reassemble apparently. But I want you

to notice verse 44.

You might mark verse 43 because we're

going to talk about that after dinner.

But let's talk about verse 44 here. And

in the days of these kings shall the God

of heaven set up a kingdom. Now wait a

minute. We've just been through four

kingdoms. Those kingdoms have geography.

They have a king and they have subjects.

We've got a fifth one being talked about

here. In the days of these kings, shall

the God of heaven set up a kingdom which

shall never be destroyed. A kingdom that

shall not be left to other people, but

it shall break in pieces and consume all

these kingdoms, and it shall stand

forever. That's a kingdom on the earth.

That is a king that has geography and

has subjects.

A kingdom that shall never be destroyed.

And for as much as thou sawest that the

stone cut without hand, the mountain

without hands, and it break in pieces,

the iron, the brass, the clay, the

silver, and the gold, the great God hath

made known to the king, what shall come

to pass hereafter. The dream is certain,

and the interpretation thereof is sure.

So that's what we're talking about. Need

to understand that there are a lot of

churches that deny this reality for

whatever reason. We're supposed to

rightly divide the word of truth. We're

told well the kingdom of God that's

beyond visibility consists of angels and

cherubim and it began prior to the earth

being formed because the angels cheered

when the angel when the earth was

formed. It's in the term kingdom of god

is inclusive of all creation.

Now the kingdom of heaven is something

else again it's physical has locality

mankind only. It's earthly. It's a

political institution from Daniel 2:44.

It has a capital in Jerusalem. it was

usurped and then destined to be regained

according to Matthew 11. So it's more

definitive. It's sort of more precise in

if you're in the information sciences,

the sh theory of of meaning under

Shannon the the meaning a word has

meaning to the extent it excludes part

of the universe. If I tell you I live in

the United States, I've told you

something. If I tell you I live in the

state of Idaho, I've told you more

because it's narrower. You follow me? If

I give you the street address, it's even

more meaningful. See, the meaning is

defined by the amount of the universe.

It excludes. Okay? So, if I say kingdom

of God, that's everything outside God

himself. If I say the kingdom from

heaven, oh, that's a subset, a small

part of that, so to speak. What's

interesting however, you know, you never

notice sevens in the book of Revelation

or in the Bible, anywhere. Book of

sevens are everywhere, right? You're

going to discover something else that's

kind of surprising. And there's a thing

called twelves. The kingdom of heaven of

heaven is always twelves.

The there are 12 tribes in Israel.

Okay? There are 12 apostles who are

going to rule over the 12 tribes. We're

told in Matthew 19 and Luke 22.

That's why Paul was not one of them. He

wasn't one of the original apostles.

That's why Matias was legitimate. That's

another whole debate going on. And u

there are 12 kingdom of heaven parables.

There are 12 kingdom mysteries. There

are 12,000 sealed from each of the 12

tribes in Revelation 7. And there are

the new Jerusalem consists of 12 gates

and 12 foundation stones and 12,000

furongs cubed if you will. 12 is somehow

identifying the kingdom as a subset if

you will more precise.

12 kingdom mysteries. The mystery of the

kingdom of God, the mystery of the

kingdom of heaven, the mystery of the

manifestation of the flesh. These are

mysteries defined in the scripture.

They're in your notes. You can check

each one out. Mystery of the ultimate

unity. The mystery of the Gentiles in

the same body. The mystery of the bride

of Christ. That's a mystery, by the way,

that's still unresolved among most

scholars. Is the is the bride of Christ,

the body of Christ synonymous? I don't

think so. But that's very controversial.

And the mystery of the harpato, of

course, we talked about that enough. And

the mystery of iniquity, all it does

already work, we're told. Mystery of the

seven churches, the mystery of Israel's

blindness. And then the mystery Babylon

that we talked about and in Revelation

rather chapter 10:7 the mysteries are

then finished. That's interesting.

There's 12 of them and now they're

finished somehow.

So there again, there's 12 kingdom

issues. Now I've taught a lot about the

seven kingdom parables in Matthew 13.

And I was I've had to revise my Matthew

commentary several times as I've learned

more in recent years

because there aren't just seven kingdom

parables. There are 12. There are those

seven of course which Jesus focuses on

in a very special way but we discover of

those seven you add five others in

Matthew 18 2022 25 the handful of them

there's 12 kingdom parables and that

startled me to realize there's something

significant about 12 that we're missing

here several of these also speak of the

darkness outside and I'll talk about

that when we get to the the millennial

temple but let's get move out here for a

minute the order of events we of course

have the inner interval in the 70th

week. We've talked about that. And of

course, the harpato occurs prior to the

70th week. By some distance, it might be

an hour. It might be over 30 years. In

the middle of that, of course, we have

domination of desolation. And we have

these two halves, three and a half

years, 42 months, 12, 60 days. This is

old news to you now. Of course, the

great tribulation is the label for the

last three and a half years. We're on to

that thing. Armageddon is climax of all

that. And it's interrupted by the second

coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praise

God. We're together so far on this

sequence here, right? That kicks off the

millennium. Satan is bound at the

beginning and released at the end. There

are two periods of time that nobody

knows what they've been for. There's

1290 days and then 1335 days. And no

one's quite sure. There's no clue as to

what they're really about. There's

speculation. They may have something to

do with the establishment of the kingdom

and or the judgment of the sheep and

goats. But that's speculation.

hard as you try, you can't justify.

There's all kinds of conjectures. Don't

misunderstand me, but they're not

supported.

At least I don't see them supported.

What does happen after that? Well,

there's the sheep and goat judgment. And

the more you study about that, the more

questions it raises because they're

mortals judged by works.

And it's a and it's three groups of

people.

It's the the Jews that were protected

during the trouble tri tribulation. And

it's the people that helped them. there

are the sheep. The ones that didn't are

the goats and the goats get it. They're

done. And uh so it's an interesting

bizarre piece of thing. And then there's

the marriage supper of the lamb. Don't

confuse the marriage supper with the

wedding itself. Many of us have made

that mistake. And I'm indebted to Arnold

Fuckenbomb who really who's unraveled

that for us. And then of course at the

end of the thousand years Satan is

released. There's another Mog incident

that occurs and then he's put out for

good and we have the great right throne

judgment and then we have a new heavens

and a new earth and we have the new

Jerusalem

come down from heaven

and so that's the picture there now

these judgments you need to study

individually the beimma seat of Christ

we will deal with primarily in session

six because that's the most important

thing for you and me it deals with

records and crowns and our assignments

and what have you. And that's where the

kingdom parables get in there, the

talents and the verb. We have all kinds

of interesting questions to deal with

there. And the call of the bride to the

marriage of the lamb occurs from that

on the earth as the as the um kingdom

set up. We have the sheep and goat

judgment in Matthew 25. This occurs on

the earth. Three separate parties are

involved. Mortals are judged on the

basis of works, amazingly enough. And

then the final one at the end of the

millennium, of course, the great white

throne. And that's where the unsaved

dead are all raised and judged. And it's

the end at the end of the millennium.

And after that, we have a new heavens,

new earth, and the new Jerusalem, and so

forth. Now, as I've told you before, if

I know your hermeneutics, I know your

esquetology. And so, we've been through

all of this. This is by way of review,

but that's why if I know your

hermeneutics, I know your esquetology.

There is an epistemological cycle. If I

know your hermeneutics, I know your

esquetology.

If I know your esquetology,

I can make a from from that that chart

as I told you. If I know your

esquetology, I can predict your

ecclesiology.

Most of your debates in esquetology will

have to do with the nature of the church

in its mystical. So your your your

vanguard your your

challenge is to understand the nature of

the church not church as we think of it

as an institution or as a building. No

no I'm talking about the mystical

church. So if I know your esquetology I

can predict what you believe about the

church.

And if I know what you believe about

ecclesiology

that also allows me to predict your

humanities. It closes the loop and it

spirals. The more literal you are, the

more your esquetology will clarify. The

more your esquetology clarifies, the

more you'll understand the church and

its destiny and its role. The more you

understand that, the more it will impact

your hermeneutics. And that will spiral

you in the direction of being having a

higher and higher respect for the text.

So you with me? And so that that's when

you get from the KGV or the

international standard version which is

on the Dead Sea Scrolls or whatever you

it'll impact your hermeneutics

obviously. In any case, they'll always

always always point to Christ. He's the

key to it all on every page, every

detail. Every hidden little subtle thing

underneath the text always Christc

centered. So, so your challenge, by the

way,

I'm going to put something on the screen

which if you accept, you flunk the

course.

I believe that you and I are being

plunged into a period of time about

which the Bible says more than it does

about any other period of time in

history. And that's why you're in this

conference to learn more about what it

says because it says more about it does

in any other period of time, including

the time that Jesus was on the walked

the shores of Galilee or climbed the

mountains of Judea. Now, that's a

preposterous statement

and I I don't want you to accept it. If

you accept it, you flunk. I want you to

challenge that statement. To do that,

you got to do two things.

You got to find out what the Bible says.

Not what Chuck Mistler says or anyone

else. It's too important to delegate.

You can't delegate this to others. Now,

our unique environment gives you more

help than anyone's ever had in the past.

You can go to the original text with a

click of your mouse. And uh we have

these advanced information appliances.

Many people carry half a dozen Bibles in

their phone or their iPad, what have

you. And internet, all of man's

knowledge is a couple of keystrokes

away. You can find out anything about

anything if you know how to use the

resource. And um the role of small

group, I've been a Christian for 65

years. And the place I have seen people

grow invariably is in a small group. 6

to 12 people. That's what Jesus used.

a small enough group that you can ask

questions about embarrassment. Small

enough to hold each other accountable.

And if you're not in a small group, find

one. If you can't find one, start one.

You do not have to be a teacher to lead

a small group. Not today. You invite a

few friends over for coffee and donuts

and whatever or scones or whatever your

style is. Pop a DVD in the player and

discuss it. You don't have to do

anything but lead the discussion. Don't

let one person dominate and just have

some and the Holy Spirit will take over.

Watch what happens.

And now the second that's only part one.

Find out what the Bible says. Part two

is a little more difficult. Find out

what's going on and you won't on the

10:00 news because you in the in America

and here and everywhere you go is being

managed by the governments. The role of

the press, the free press in a in a

democracy is to inform the electorate.

Unfortunately, most press organizations

have been prostituted.

But you have to find out what's going

on. And you can today there resources.

Pilot so cynically said, "What is

truth?" That's your challenge. Find out

what's really true. We live in the age

of deceit. You need to be toolled with

the tools to cut through that and not be

conned.

Now, as you know, we have two ministries

under our trust. Coin House is the

publisher, been around for three or four

decades. Coin institute is a think tank

that you can be part of different

website different set of resources. In

the institute you got three avenues of

study. The bin which is the word of God

which is the primary thing. You also

have the Issachar which understand the

times like the sons of Issachar and the

coinos which is to train ambassadors.

The third commandment thou shalt not

take the name of the Lord thy God in

vain is a call to ambassadorship. You're

going to be his ambassador. You need to

be prepared to represent him

competently. and um faithfully. In any

case, let's have a closing word of

prayer. Father, we thank you for the day

and we pray, Father, that through your

Holy Spirit and through your word, you

would guide us. Help us to understand

more clearly what it is you would have

of us in response to all these things

that we might grow in grace and the

knowledge of our savior and that we

might be more pleasing in your sight, oh

Lord, our strength and our redeemer

indeed. Amen.

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