We're in Revelation 14. The book of Revelation now, remember, as you look at your chart, the charts that you have, first of all, we need to review a couple of things. We live in the church age. If you'll turn to this side of your chart where the cross is. This is the church age period. You can see that it says church age right there. And it says grace. And you can see the cross. That means Christ will die. Okay? Well, we're right somewhere toward the end of the church age. How do we know that we're at the end of the church age? Who remembers how we know that's where we are? What tells you, what indicator tells you that we're at the end of the Turchage? We're at the end of the time of Maryland? That's right. The Jewish people have gone back to the homeland. If you look down here in the green area, at the beginning of the Turchage, we have the dispersion of Israel, and then the Lord told us, when we see certain things coming to be, He said, Lift up your eyes for your redemption draws near or nigh. Alright? So, the regathering of Israel is Ezekiel 36, 20-24. And if you'll take this chart and look at these verses in here, and as you go, and you'll find out the different scriptures in the Bible. The book of Revelation does not stand alone. Every other book in the Bible agrees. One book does not disagree with the other one. Every book in the Bible teaches us basically the same thing. It talks about the end of time and many, many books. And then your other chart here, the Tribulation chart that you have. Now, in the 14th chapter of Revelation, Every chapter, it does not continue. The Book of Revelation doesn't say 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and down here at the end, 22, that's the end of the tribulation period. What it does is it shows you different aspects of what's going on all during here. In the first half, what happened there, and in the second half, what took place here. And it'll jump back and forth. It'll just declarify, in a better way, Now, we're going to go and find that out in just a minute. Revelation, the fourteenth chapter. Now, the end of the thirteenth chapter, verses sixteen through eighteen, what was that? Did any of you mark in the Bible what that was? Remember, that was the mark of the beast. Remember that? The mark of the beast. And actually, the mark of the beast, when did the mark of the beast actually take place? According to this Tribulation Act, when did that mark of the beast actually take place? All right, right up here at the beginning of the Tribulation, when the Antichrist took over. All right? And you had to have the mark of the beast before you could work on any job or buy and sell or anything. You couldn't buy any food. You couldn't buy any object without money. It's not good there. Gold and silver isn't any good. And there's going to be two classes of people. There is going to be the princes and the paupers. That's all there's going to be. The princes, the very high ruling class, and there will be the slaves, basically, of society. And the workman's wages will be what? What was Merkel? What? Just enough to feed yourself. We know that the mother, the father, and all the children are going to have to work. It's going to go back just like it did in the 1800s in America and for the rest of Europe and how it is in many countries today. Children have to work. As soon as they can get up and walk around and everything, they have to start working to help feed themselves by the heart. No, it takes place in the beginning. That's how he sets up his whole system. Now it doesn't come, the 13th chapter of Revelation that we studied, some of that is taking place in the middle of the week. But the last part of the chapter, verses 16 through 18, that tells about what happened back over in the beginning. And how he had total control over society and all the countries. Now how many of you remember what countries are going to take, what divisions in the world are there at this period of time? Remember what kind of divisions? Politically? Where is the Antichrist? What nations is he going to be on? The western nations. All the western nations. With Israel as the head. America won't be the head at that time. It will probably be part of the western nations, I'm sure. But Israel will be the head of those western nations. And then what other nations are going to be against him? the East, the China, and then the African, and what we call basically the Islamic world. Alright? So we see those divisions. Alright? And they are there today, aren't they? Now when the Lord said, as I began the class, He said, when you see all these things begin to take place, keep on looking up! or your redemption draws nigh. I don't want to be in that tribulation period, people. How do you get in the tribulation period, by the way? Brother Bill, do you know how you're going to get in there? Yeah, how do you get in the tribulation period? How do you get left behind? You're not saved when it takes place. You're going to get left behind. There was a series left behind. Now, Revelation, the fourteenth chapter. Now we have, it's showing us a picture of people that are saved during the tribulation period, and we see the glory of the Lamb of God. And it's kind of, there's some judgments in here. And Revelation 14, verse 1. Who has that? Revelation 14, verse 1. You have it, Randy? All right. And I look, and lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion. and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand having his father's name written in their foreheads." Alright, now hold on just there. Now we just, the 16th through the 18th chapter just, or Revelation 13, 16 through 18 just told us something. It told us that Satan had marked his people. Alright? That tells us here that God has marked his people. Alright? Everybody's marked with either Satan's mark or with God's mark. And, but, there are, now these that are marked by God here is Maximalism. This is the nation, these are Jewish people, okay? Because God, the whole purpose of the tribulation period is to bring Israel back to God. And we're not talking about save people. Because in that period, in this thing, there are three groups of people in the world. There is Israel. Alright? There is the Antichrist and those that are starving to death and being killed for the truth. Those are God's people, but those are the ones that aren't marked either, are they? They have not taken the mark of the beast and of course they are not marked by God because they are not in Nationalism. So there are Gentiles that are being saved during that period of time. How many of you knew that? Anybody know that? How many of you didn't know that? Alright, good deal. So I thought we would bring that one up. I read that in a series, a Matthew 9 series and it says that if everybody was marked by that they could see God's mark on them. Only other people could see that mark. Is that true? That's just the story. I know that the series was made after the Bible and everything else, but all of it is guessing, really. We have certain things that we find from the Word of God, but a lot of that is writing. You have to realize that's just prolific writing. But a lot of it's based on things. All right, now God said that here, Brandy read that and he said that The name of his father are written on their foreheads, alright? And Mount Zion, where is Mount Zion? Huh? It's in Israel, alright, but where is Mount Zion? How many of you know, have you ever heard of Mount Zion? How many of you have been to Israel? Well, it's in Jerusalem, alright. One of the first Christian churches that was ever built was built on Mount Zion. It is one mountaintop that's in the city of Jerusalem. The Mount of Moriah, and not very far from Mount Moriah where the Mosque of Omar is, is Zion. Sometimes the word term Zion is used for Jerusalem. It's used as a synonym for Jerusalem. Go ahead Brother Randy. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. And they sung, as it were, a new song for the throne, and before the four beasts. Okay, now hold on. The four beasts there should be four living beings. Those beings are created by God. King James translated beasts, but they're actually living beings. They're not monstrosities or monsters or anything. They're creatures, living beings. Okay, go ahead, Brother Andy. Let me tell you something else here. There are more than 144,000 Jews that are saved during this period of time, but God marked a certain amount of these Jews, and he protected them especially, and they are from the twelve tribes of Israel. Name how many? 12,000 each from each tribe. And God marked these for a special purpose in the end times. Verse number four. Brother Norm, have you got that? These are they which follow the Lamb wherever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits of God unto the Lamb. Okay. Now, let's go back and look at verse number four a little bit. This isn't talking about celibacy as a close way of being to God, even though the Apostle Paul, when you get married, You have to please your mate, don't you? And Paul says, I'd rather be not married because I can put all of my energy to serving God. Because if I have a mate, then I have to please her also. But right now, I only please the Lord. But I know that the Catholic Church talks about celibacy and many cults and isms. celibacy in the months of all kinds, and that's a closer way to God. But God made mankind and made womankind to want to be with each other. That's a normal thing. And being together as husband and wife is not sin, as some of these religions say. These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are celibates. Now, there are two great women talked about in the book of Revelation. Two, I shouldn't say great women, but there are two women that are talked about in the book of Revelation that are very famous, all right, because it says that over and over again. One of them is the harlot, and that's the bride of Satan, which is the world system. It is the economical system that the antichrist uses. It's when the church and the state become one again. All right? Baptists have always stood for one thing, separation of church and state. They have stood for that since the Sea of Galilee. Well, in the last days, the church and state become one again. All right? And it's a state religion, and the state is also the ruling order of that time. Now, these people have not been defiled religiously or spiritually. Now, there's one other woman in the Bible that Paul talks about in the book of Ephesians and several other places. What is it? The Church, the Bride of Christ is also there. Well, this is talking about being defiled with the great harlot. That's what it's talking about. They have kept away from her. And in the middle of the tribulation period, as you look at this chart here, right in the middle of the tribulation period, that's when the Antichrist stands up in Jerusalem and declares himself to be the Messiah of Israel and also demands that they worship him as God. Now, many are going to do it, but there is a certain elected group of Israel that will not. When he does that, then they'll know who he is and they'll flee from him. And that's when God protects them. Alright? Let's go on a little bit further. In verse 5, Brother Norm. Okay, what makes a person without fault before God? The blood of Jesus Christ. And it keeps saying this over and over again. These people are believers You know, since Adam, people have only been saved one way, and that's by repenting of their sins and calling upon God and trusting Him for your salvation. That's how people are saved. Okay, go ahead, Brother Norm, number six. And I saw another angel flying from the midst of heaven, having everlasting gospel, and preaching to him that dwelleth in the earth, and every nation, and country, and tongue, and people. All right. Now, during the tribulation period again, The church and all the saints have been raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period. See over here where it says, the rapture of the saints and the arrows going up? All right. The Lord comes back and resurrects all the saints. They're resurrected first, those that are dead. And then, what it actually says in Greek, it says, one flap of a mass wing. That's what it literally says. The difference in time between the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the resurrection of the live is like one flap of a match swing. How many of you ever had a match fly in your ear? It goes... I mean, your head is doing that. Well, one flap of a match swing is what it says. That's the Greek term. That's the difference. One split. One flap of a... twinkling of an eye, but actually it's the flap of a mass wheel. Well, they're up. They're up in heaven. So, during the church age that we live in today, who has the administration of God's kingdom on earth? Who has the administration of God's kingdom on earth? God's kingdom. The church that is the administrator of God's kingdom. All true New Testament churches, we have the authority to preach the gospel to all mankind. It is our job to do that. There's a lot of people out doing other things with the name of churches, but true churches are out, and they're the ones that have the responsibility. Well, all the same, when they're raptured and taken up to be with God, that administration is over. And we talked about two witnesses that stood up and that were killed and everything. Now that happens to us. We read that in the 12th and 13th chapter. We read 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th chapter. We read all that. And that takes place actually toward the end of the tribulation period. But it's going back and it's telling us what happens all during this time right here now. Okay? When God took his churches out of the way and all was saved, Then who on earth has got the administration of the kingdom? The Bible tells us. No. God's kingdom over. Satan is going to be alive and well and really get with it on earth at this time. But God always had an administrator and an administration in His kingdom. He always has representatives to speak for Him. First of all, we see the two witnesses that stand up. And who in the world ever those two witnesses are, I do not know. They could be John, they could be Daniel, they could be Elijah, they could be Enoch, Moses. All right, and it could be two different people, I don't know. But there are going to be two witnesses stand up during that period of time. And then it says here that that's not only the ones going to be preaching the everlasting gospel. And I told you a minute ago, people have only been saved one way in God's kingdom. And that's by repenting and believing in Jesus Christ. And the Bible and the book of Galatians tells us, Paul tells us in the book of Galatians, that God preached the gospel to Abraham. Abraham understood about it. Adam in the garden understood about the gospel. Every time they ever sacrificed a lamb, every year for their sins, that innocent lamb had to die for that one which was guilty. And that's what the lambs all stood for in the Old Testament. Sacrifice, or whatever sacrifice, was a type of Jesus Christ. Well now, we have an angel flying through the heavens, and he's preaching in everybody's language, or everybody that, wherever he goes, they're hearing the gospel in their own specific language, their own dialect. If you're Oakey, you speak in an Oakey. If you're Scottish or whatever you are, you're going to understand exactly what this dude said. In your very own dialect from where you were, you're going to hear it just like that. I saw another angel flying in midheaven having the eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth and every nation and tribe and tongue and people. And verse number seven now, verse number seven. Tony, have you got that there? Have you? You're right there by the camera, so you'd be right in there. Okay, now who made heavens and the earth? We're going to find out this on Wednesday night on S22. That's where we are. They moved us out of here on S22 on Wednesday night. We're going to start the book of Colossians. And what does the first chapter of Colossians tell us? Who created the heavens and the earth? It was God the Son. It was Jehovah that created the heavens and the earth. It tells us that not one thing was made without his name. He was the actor. He was the one that made it. So who are we supposed to worship here? Jesus. He's the same. He was the Lamb, too, wasn't he? Behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, him 144,000, and his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. Who is this? This is God, all right? All right, now let's look back again. Look at our chart. It's talking about what's happened all during the Tribulation period, but when does Babylon fall? When does Babylon fall? When does this great economical system set up by the Antichrist, when does it fall? At the end of the tribulation period, that's when it falls, okay? The great tribulation period, during that period of time. And what is it? It is a religious and economic social system of the Antichrist. He absolutely has the answer for everybody's problems. There won't be any ceiling at that time because you can't buy or sell anything with money. You can't be conned anything. I mean, here in Bexarstown, California, in the Sheriff's Department, they have every division of how people have been cheated and conned out of their money. Half of society is living off the other half of society by cheating that part of society by stealing. You have prisons that have blue collar crime workers. They do. And white collar crime workers. We have one woman this last week that just went to prison. That is a worldwide famous person. Yeah, Martha Stewart. They should have made her pay everybody back that she cost a dime. That should have been the first thing. That would have been real justice. But she went to jail. She went to jail because she's a white collar crime. Well, this is all crime, isn't it? Crime. We talked about the stock market. How many people in the last five years have been absolutely devastated by what those people did in the stock market? This is what we call white collar crime. Well, the Antichrist said this is never going to happen again. I'm going to have total control. I'm going to know what's going on everywhere, all the time. This isn't going to happen. I'm going to make everything you have safe and secure, except he's going to take it away. How it's going to be safe and secure, it's all going to be in his hands. OK, Babylon, the grave is fallen. And verse 9, "...who is your angel, follow them, saying, Look at our voice. If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, Go ahead. He himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation. Okay, now let me explain that just a little bit. It says mixed. How many of you make cake mixes and stuff? There's a certain amount of everything, all right? And there's vanilla extract. Some of it's pure vanilla extract. Some of it's cut down or whatever. Wrath of God is not diluted whatsoever. It has not been mixed. It has not been cut. It has not been diluted whatsoever. It is pure wrath. That's what it means. It's unmixed. A lot of the translations say mixed, but this is pure, undiluted. That's what it means. Go ahead, Tony. We shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. All right. This undiluted wrath, anger of God. All right? Now, verse 11. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast in his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." Alright, now this talks about even going into eternity. What happens even in eternity? These people that are condemned here, there is not going to be any second chance at the judgment or anything. It's done. It's over with. Once you make your decisions, it's done. I remember a story of a woman one time. She was going to be a missionary, and she was going to come out west, and she had lived in the east. And she had all the ambitions of getting out here, and she wasn't afraid of anything. And people kept saying, you know, the West is a very wild place. Well, she got on a train in East and she rode on the train as far as she could go and she just figured she could ride on the train all the way there. And she'd get off and she'd be out in Colorado or someplace. Well, she ended up the train and then she had to start riding in stagecoaches. And then she, in the very beginning when she got off the train, she met people and they said, watch out when you run into cowboys. They were terrible people. No woman is safe in the presence of a cowboy. Except they're just horrible, and they do not have any respect for any woman or female whatsoever in this world. Well, she got on the stagecoaches, and once she got on the stagecoaches and she saw no more civilization and everything, all of her courage began to wane away. And she got out there, and nobody rode on the stagecoach with her, and they'd stop and try to get her to eat and sleep, and she was so afraid that she couldn't eat and sleep. She was starving to death because of fear. All right, well that's some kind of a, this is fear. How would you like to be in hell and know that there is absolutely no hope from that point of time onward? Well, this woman, she rode in this stagecoach. She finally got out to about 500 miles. You know, stagecoaches don't go 70 miles an hour on the freeway. She's bouncing around all of the time. And out, and she'd ridden alone for herself a long time, and finally she said, this great big man was a Buffalo rowboat. She had a Buffalo coach. Came in, and she was setting On the back side of the stagecoach and he came in and sat right beside her and he had this big pistol in his belt and another one on and he had his rifle and he set his rifle down there. And he just threw his rope right over her. Just like that. And she just sat there and shuddered. She never said a word. They rolled for many, many, many miles and she was absolutely, her heart pounded all the time. She was scared to death that this man was going to violate her or in some way So she heard no decent woman is safe in the presence of the cowboys. He finally said, are you thirsty? He said, I have some water in my canteen. Would you like to have a drink? And she just, your teeth were shattering. She couldn't say anything, so he just got the thing out and he undid it and gave her a drink like this. And they were under the buffalo robes because it was so cold. And she was afraid to say anything back to him. They started trying to talk to her. He said, what are you going to do when you get out west and how far are you going? What's a girl like you going out here for? Don't you know it's dangerous? And she says, I want to work in an orphanage. I heard there's an orphanage in Colorado where many people's children are orphans and I want to go work in an orphanage and I want to help women and I want to help build a church out there and all this kind of stuff. And then she started getting more brave. You know, this guy was a great big guy, but he seemed like he was, he, and she asked him, she said, uh, uh, uh, uh, are you a cowboy? He swallowed, yeah, I'm a cowboy. What are you going to do to me? He said, uh, nothing. Like this. Finally, after she got her courage up, she says, uh, Where did you come from? He said, so and so and so and so. Well, how about your mother and your father? What do they think about you coming out west? Well, I haven't talked to them in a long time, and I heard that my father had died, but my mother is still alive. But I haven't wrote her or anything in many, many years. And she said, you know, your mother is probably scared to death and worried about you. You need to write a letter to your mother. And he said, oh, I will. She said, I'll pray for your mother and all this kind of stuff, and I'll pray for you. So she starts witnessing to this By the way, at the end of the trip, he had promised to ride his mother and everything else, and he was even going to go to church. Well, these people here in the tribulation period that have taken the heart of the beast, there is no hope for them at all. That little old gal rode across the United States from the stage, scared to death, and every moment was like hell itself, especially when the cowboy got in there and threw his robe over her. She finally found out in the end he wasn't such a bad guy after all. But there's no hope for these here. Now verse 12, verse 12, I told them to go over that. Here is the patience of the saints. Here are those who keep the commandments of God in the faith of Jesus. All right. Commandments of God in the faith of Jesus. Now, there are going to be people, even at this period of time, that are going to give their lives for the gospel and for the truth of Jesus Christ. Rita, are you right there, too, in the same place? Verse 13. All right, blessed, happy are the dead. Happy are people that are getting killed. Happy are people that are being killed. Now that's weird, isn't it? Go ahead, Rita. All right. These are people saved during the tribulation period. All right. These are the ones that are saved in the tribulation period. I've heard many people and preachers at different times say nobody's going to be saved in the tribulation period. Yes, they are. It just keeps saying over and over again. Go ahead, read your verse fourteen. Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud's edge, orange, like the blood of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. Now here we have God weeping. All right? This is weeping. This is what it's all about, weeping. Go ahead, Rita. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him, and shed on the cloud. Thrust in your sickle and weep, for the time has come for you to weep, when the harvest of the earth is ripe. Go ahead, verse seventeen. 19 and 20. So the angel pressed the sickle and spear together to bind the deer and threw it into the great winecrest of the wrath of God. And the winecrest was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winecrest, up to the horse's bridle, for one thousand six hundred furloughs." What? Two hundred miles long? What in the world is he talking about here? This is talking about the very end of this period of time called the Battle of Armageddon. That's what it's talking about. How many of you have heard of the Battle of Armageddon? They have movies called Armageddon and different things like that. This is the period of time when there's going to be a great amount of death and blood is going to be flowing all over this battlefield. We find out that this battlefield is going to be created. It doesn't even exist yet. Did you know that? This battlefield, there's going to be an earthquake, and it's going to open up. There's going to be a valley 200 miles long, exactly from one point to the other point, if you measure them, it's 200 miles long. It's exactly like the Book of Revelation. And guess what the scientists have now figured out? There's an earthquake fault that runs exactly right through that area. What do you think about that? Do you think that's a chance? Created everything. I mean, it's there. It's waiting. Things are ready to happen. Chapter 15 now. Chapter 15. I told you we studied sometimes more than one chapter. Brother Joe, are you right there? Chapter 15 and verse 1. And I saw another sign in the heavens, great and marvelous. and because in them the wrath of God is finished. that's going to be created. It's 200 miles long and 75 miles wide. Okay, if you want to write that down somewhere. It's 200 miles long and 75 miles wide, and if you look and study the seismology of the area, there is where it's going to be, right exactly where it says between these two points. Alright? And then verse 2, love y'all. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come out victorious from the deep, and from this image, and from the number of his name standing in the sea of glass, holding hearts of God. Okay, now the sea of glass. Where did we study about the sea of glass? Where is the sea of glass? Around the throne of God. Alright. Around the throne of God. And what in the world is a sea of glass? What does that mean? It's a precious stone. Alright. And what color is this stone? It's sapphire. It's blue. It's a sapphire. And what it is, it is a beautiful polished stone pavement all around the throne of God. This is a polished stone pavement, a sapphire stone, one solid sapphire stone that is around the throne of God. And these people are singing praises to God around this beautiful, beautiful rainbow throne. What does rainbow stand for? Yeah, these are the saints that are saved. Now as they're being killed, they're going up into heaven and they're standing around praising God for His glory. You know, they had already rejected God before the tribulation period. And so during the tribulation period, these people believe and they die for the gospel during that period of time. How are they going to be killed, by the way? The Bible talks about how these people, they're going to be beheaded. They're going to be public beheadings and they're going to be televised all over the world. That's what it says. We've got 144,000 students. Now we've got the saints that were being saved and beheaded and shed their own blood. So all of this is taking place right here. It's all taking place. Tell us about it right here. Here is the tribulation period, all right? Here is when it starts at the end of the church days. The church goes up, okay? And all that happens, we've got two groups here. We've got Israel, and then we've got the Sages that are Gentiles, and then we have the Marks of Satan, all right? These are people who are marked by Satan. So we have Israel and we have the saved people that's talking about right here. Now Israel, the people of Israel are going to be alive on the earth. These are going to be killed, alright? These saved people during the tribulation period are all going to die for the testimony of God. Israel is going to be protected, alright? And these people are going to be the army of Satan. They're going to be alive and they're going to be protected. They aren't going to die. No, they're going to live on the earth. Because when they go into the millennial reign of God, which starts over here, this millennial reign, this thousand year reign, people on the earth are going to go into the millennial reign in their physical living bodies. And the earth will be repopulated for 1,000 years, and Israel will be leading out as the administrator of God's kingdom on earth. Of course, the Lord and all his people are going to be like the sun shining above the earth in New Jerusalem. All right, let's go on and look at that some more. Who was reading? Go ahead. And they sang a psalm of Moses and the blessing of God, and the songs of the Lamb sang, great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty, righteous and true, thy way, thou King of the nations. Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone is holy. For all the nations will come and worship before thee. For thy righteous acts have been revealed." All right. And, say, Brother Bill, are you there on that page? Chapter five. It starts out with Metatoptic. That's what it says in Greek. All right. Let's look at that now. Go ahead, brother. All right, now here we have a beautiful scene going on in heaven. The God from heaven, He's sending out judgments. Now, it's said that the temple was filled with the smoke from the glory of God and from His power. Now, on the earth, go back in time, in your chart here, as you look back, And you come up here, on one side it starts like this and on the other side it starts like this. Back here we have the promise of God. The promise of God was made to Abraham. And God told Abraham to go into Canaan land. You know, God is able to look from eternity past and look all the way through time and tell everything that's going to happen in time. He is omniscient. He knows everything. And he's omnipotent. He's able to make everything happen like he wants it to happen. And he can allow evil, vicious acts to bring about his eternal work. Why did Israel want to go back to the Promised Land, to the land of Canaan, to Palestine? Why did they want to go back? And, you know, they were scattered out. The Bible also talks about over here the dispersion of Israel during the church age. Why did they want to come back when they were thrown out through all the world? In Germany, in Europe, all over. Why did they want to go back to that little piece of land over there in Palestine? Wherever they were, they were persecuted. Not without cause. The whole world, if you talk to people today about Jewish people, so many times when they talk about them, they spit. Because they're angry. Germany hated the Jewish people. After World War I, the Jewish people got control of much of the banking and the monetary system in Europe. And boy, they were mad. When Hitler came on the scene, he just put into force what Luther and Calvin had preached before that. Luther called for every Jew to be put in a concentration camp, and every man to be neutered, and every woman worked to death until they died. They were going to exterminate this terrible race of people. Because of what they did to Christ, alright? Luther thought they should be destroyed. Well, you know something? God got a plan for these people. Didn't he read where the regathering of Ezekiel? But he spiritualized it away in wrong theology and applied the church to the national Israel. God didn't do that. Luther and Calvin didn't, alright? We're still fighting that today, even today. Back in time, when God established Israel, the nation of Israel, through his prophet that was called Moses. Remember Moses? Moses, first of all, he built a tabernacle that was like dwelling place of God in heaven, like what they call a eutyphic vision or paradise in heaven. And in the middle of that paradise, according to everything that we see here, is the Ark of the Covenant or the very presence of God. And the Ark of the Covenant, they built this golden box. It was made out of wood, but it was covered with gold. And gold stands for what? Metallically in the Bible. Deity. Wood stands for what? Humanity. box that was put in the middle of it, this Ark of the Covenant, and inside of the Ark of the Covenant was manna, alright? It was an unbroken law, and it was also Aaron's rod, which budded. We see these things that were put in the Ark of the Covenant. But who does this Ark of the Covenant, who does it stand for? Jesus Himself, because God, deity, gold, became humanity, John 1.14, John 1.1, and lived among mankind so he could redeem them back. And this is the Ark of the Covenant stood for Christ. God wanted to dwell among his people, and that Ark of the Covenant stood for him. And the mercy seat in 1 John 2.2, it says to us there, The Apostle writing in 1 John says that he is our propitiation, that he is our mercy seat. He is the mercy seat. He is the one that sprinkled his... there at that mercy seat, and he said that the smoke and the glory of God was so great, the Shekinah glory of God, that they couldn't even see where they were going. And here we have this again. Then after the tabernacle was done away with and the Temple of Solomon was built by Solomon, David's son, They built the temple, and then they took the Ark of the Covenant and put it in there. And by the way, that's the only temple that ever had the presence of God in it. None of the rest of them did. All right? It's the only one. Well, when they had it built, when it was dedicated, the Chicane glory of God came upon that temple, and they could not minister for the presence of God, the Chicane glory of God. Now, here in heaven, we see that type of presence again. All right? In the great city. Alright. Where do we end up there? In 16 and what? Where? Where? 16 verse 1. Go and pour out the bowls of wrath of God and the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth and it became a loathsome malignant sore upon men who had the mark of the beast who worshipped his image. So there is where we are going to finish for today. All of this furthermore. But that happened back in the dark ages, didn't it? This was the time, and what happened in the Dark Ages was just exactly like this. You know, there was a period of time when Baptists could not live. They went out. How many of you ever heard of the Amish? And the Mennonites, they live in these little colonies and everything else all over. Those are all Baptists. They have never changed, because back at that period of time, they had to run and they had to hide and live in hidden communities, and they lived like this. And they had to live, because they wouldn't live... First of all, if you had a child, the Catholic Church said that if it wasn't baptized in so many days, many times they would kill the child. And they killed the parents, too. Well, you couldn't work, you couldn't do anything unless you became a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. That happened in history, that really happened. So we have a type of what took place back then. Many people were killed, people that would not conform because they preached the word of God and the truth. They would not conform to that system and they were killed. So we see that. Thousands and thousands. You know that between 50 and 100 million people died during the Dark Ages at the hands of the Roman Church? Between 50 and 100 million people. That's a lot of people. Well, that was just a typo. That's what happened in the last days. That was only just a preview of coming attractions. That's all. And every one of us You know, we need to preach God's Word to our families. We need to tell them about what's happening, and that's why I'm teaching this class. Well, the Amish people, there are some weird things about them. If you look in Baptists, in what they call the Anabaptists, well, all during time, they had to stay out by themselves. They had to hide. The churches of the valley of the Piedmont are what's called the Waldenses, and I told some of you about this before. But they lived up in the Alps, and they hid out in valleys, what they call the valleys of the Piedmont up in there. They were a secretive group. They made their own clothes, their own furniture and everything else. And they didn't ever go to town hardly at all. But one of them went to town one time and they traced him and followed him back through the different passages where he went. And the Catholic Church found out about him. And they went in there, they followed him in, and they killed all those people. They put them in caves and they burned them. They suffocated them. They chopped them up into little pieces. And there's a book called The History of the Churches. The Ecclesiastical History of the Churches of the Valleys of the Piedmont that was written by the Church of England. And the Church of England exposed at that time what the Catholic Church had done in the Valleys of the Piedmont. That is a book. One of my friends found that when he was in England. He's dead now, Dr. Conrad Nathan Glover. And I have a copy of it. You can get a copy of it that tells all the families' names and everything and where they lived. This really happened in history. Well, it's going to happen again. These kind of things are going to happen again, but it's going to be to a greater, greater scale than ever before. Brother Art, I want you to come up, and thank you for your attention today. If you want any of these guys on tape, just call and we'll get them.