The Book of Revelation. What is the Book of Revelation? What does that mean? What? Unveiling? Uncovering. It uncovers something. It uncovers what? Prophecy. Prophecy. Now, if you believe that, The book of Revelation is really very simple if you interpret the book of Revelation like you do all of the other books of the Bible. But when you take a license to try to make the book of Revelation teach something besides what it teaches, you're arresting the Scriptures. One of the first men to do this was Augustine or Augustine, however you want to say his name. The Catholic Church canonized him as St. Augustine or St. Augustine. And he began his idea of an interpretation of the scriptures, he became very famous, but he took a license to try to make a spiritual meaning of everything physical in the Bible, which is really not the way we interpret the book of Revelation or any of the other books in the Bible. What are the three basic rules of interpretation when you're interpreting scriptures? Who's speaking? Who's speaking? Who's he speaking to? What's the subject? That's the three basic rules. You can say, is there a figure of study involved in it, or a custom, or whatever. There are three basic rules of interpretation. It's who's speaking, who's he speaking to, and what is the subject. That's real simple, isn't it? That is the basic. foundational rules of all biblical interpretation. Not only that, that is the basic foundation rules of all grammar for medical study. It is. You can't diagram a sentence without figuring that one out. Okay? It is the basic foundational study of mathematics. Sure is. Plus one, plus one. That equals what? Two. Here we have this. Basically, same thing. You have to have these three elements. Something plus something equals something. All right? Basic rules of interpretation. Now, we talk about the different ideas that people have of interpreting the Book of Revelation. In the beginning, The book of Revelation was taught like any other book in the Bible. It was a book of prophecy. Okay? These things were going to happen. Finally, Augustine shows up and others, and it just snowballs down in church history until we come to the Reformation. And the Reformers really balled it up with Augustine's ideas and just totally destroyed the pervading views of the book of Revelation. Of course, there were Baptist churches and two New Testament churches all the way down through the ages, weren't there? They were always teaching the book of Revelation was to be understood like any other book of the Bible, even though it was real scary. Some of them thought the Antichrist was on the scene. They talked about the papacy and everything during the Dark Ages that happened to these Christians. And if you would have lived back then and you studied the great harlot and the antichrist and everything else, maybe you would have thought he was on your tail and after you, too. But a lot of those things have not come to pass yet. You know that Isaiah, when he wrote the book of Isaiah, did not understand everything he wrote. Isaiah the 53rd chapter is prophecy of what? Isaiah 53, what is the prophecy of what? Of the coming and the abuse by mankind of the Lord Jesus Christ, have been crucified and were called. Psalm 22. Do you think David wrote Psalm number 22? Okay, what is Psalm 22 concerning? The same thing. Read it. Do you think David understood everything that he wrote? Do you think Isaiah understood everything that he wrote? Do you think John the Revelator understood everything that he wrote? Even though he saw it, he did his best to write it down so we could understand it today. Now let's go look at the Preterist view. Preterist. Preterist. P-R-E-T-E-R-I-S-T view. P-R-E-T-E-R-I-S-T view. V-I-E-W. Preterist view. Number one, predestined view. Just because it's number one, that don't mean it's right, because it's wrong. All right? It's ridiculous. All right? The predestined view of interpreting the book of Revelation says that the events and visions described belong to the past, John said. That he was supposed to understand, and everything that was happening in John's lifetime was talking about especially the Roman Empire. This view teaches that all of these things belong in a symbolic nature. John was cryptically hiding. But the book of Revelation is not cryptically hiding things, it's doing what? It's uncovering things. So the very title of the book denounces this one. All right. It shoots it down right there. John was trying to hide the real meaning. from the general public. They say that the purpose of the book of Revelation was that believers would have encouragement. And that John was saying that someday God will win. Someday everything's going to be better. We're talking about the four interpretations of the book of Revelation, by the way. The first one was the heretical prejudice view. Now we're going to talk about the heretical number two view. All right? The historical The historists, historicists, are historical. View of the book of Revelation. All right. This view simply teaches that the book of Revelation was a panoramic view between the first and the second coming of Christ, and they believed basically that all of this took place in history already. Everything in the book of Revelation was symbolically, the book of Revelation was a book of symbols, teaching spiritual lessons of what was going to happen, and again, that good will win out in the future. Okay? Now, historically, has everything happened in the book of Revelation that we have studied so far? Not in our dimension. Not right here. Not now. First of all, let's recap something again. The book of Revelation is what? A book of what? Prophecy. And it's unveiling of prophecy. What is prophecy? What does prophecy mean? Saying something before it happens, that means to say before, literally to say something before. The book of Isaiah was prophecy. The Psalms, some of that was prophecy. Many of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, many of the Old Testament books contain prophecy. The book of Revelation is a prophetic book. To say that it is not a prophetic book, if you say that you believe in a prayerist's view, or a historicist's view, what have you done? You've done away with the book of Revelation, the book of prophecy, haven't you? You've just denied. And remember, how do you interpret scripture? Who's speaking? Who's he speaking to? What's the subject? When you get those things down, will the historic The Historicist's view of the Book of Revelation. Will it walk on all fours? No, it can't. Well, those two are pretty much alike. Actually, the first three are a lot alike. Okay, number three is the symbolic view. Alright? The symbolic view. And number three is the symbolic view. The symbolic. Symbolic view portrays the conflict of good and evil, and that good will someday weigh out over bad, and that the book is to give comfort to the good because the good will triumph in the end. Now, the second view, the historicist view and the symbolic view are closely tied with Calvin's idea of the book, of the interpretation of the book of Revelation, which is closely tied to Augustine's or Augustine's views. All right? The symbolic views. What do you take? Well, you take something and then you just Give yourself a license to sit down and to say, well, this great horror in the book of Revelation was so-and-so and so-and-so, and it already happened in the past, and God is going to overcome evil, and the seven churches are something else besides what they were. They just take it and just make believe, and they'll take history, and they'll try to prove that all of it already happened, and just take a total license. Now, if you, anybody could do that to the Book of Revelation, but would you be interpreting the Scriptures according to the rules, the basic rules of interpretation? No. Not at all. Now, the correct view is the futuristic view, and the futuristic view simply means the prophetic view. The futuristic view of the Book of Revelation that, first of all, the Book of Revelation equals prophecy. The Book of Revelation is prophecy. Do we believe that? I think any genuine Bible scholar will have to agree that the Book of Revelation is prophecy. It is prophecy. It is a literal, we believe in literally interpreting the Book of Revelation. John was really on the Isle of Patmos when he wrote it. When he wrote, there were really seven churches of Asia that he wrote to. Remember the seven churches of Asia? These really churches really existed, they were not a symbol of something, but these churches really existed. And that the first few chapters of the book of Revelation, chapters 1 deals with the past, talking about history, alright. Chapters 2 and 3 tells us about things that were present at the time of the writing of the book. And chapters 4 through 24 are prophecy. Also, when it talks about the seven churches of Asia, those typify a church age, the things that would happen prophetically to churches that lived during vicious periods of time in history. Alright? That's what would happen to those churches in periods of time. You can go down through there and figure it out pretty easy. It's not real hard to do. Basic Bible scholars have done that. The book of Revelation. Alright, chapter 4 through 10, 22 tells us things that are to follow the church age and the second coming of Christ. The book of Revelation is a book of prophecy. Simple as that. We kind of erased the other ones, didn't we? But we need to understand they're there because many people that we try to deal with are going to come at us with this type of thing. You need to understand when you're dealing with this. Now, the Catholic Church basically doesn't even study the Book of Revelation. Why? Well, everybody that interprets the Book of Revelation, when it's talking about the great prostitute riding the dragon and so on and so forth, they know in history who and who this is to appraise. Remember, parallel in history, there has always been, God called out His little assembly. And when God called that assembly out, Satan copied it. Not only did he copy it, he just, he not only, he didn't create just one assembly, he created a whole bunch of them. Whatever kind of shade of you that you can think of in church history. And that's what happened. And the book of Revelation, as you see, it's talking about prophecy, it tells about what happened in the past and what happens in the future, but we see parallel lines of the truth and either half-truths or total lies. Down through church history. amalgamated groups of people that have cropped up and Satan, in some way, has tried to take the glory. Where is the Lord supposed to receive glory today? In his churches. That's where he's supposed to receive glory. Now, if Satan falsely threw out a whole lot of churches out there that weren't the Lord's, could the Lord be getting glory from those churches? No way. Matthew 13 parables, the parables, the prophetic parables of Matthew 13. The last parable in there talks about the man that sowed his field with wheat. Who do you think the man was? Who was the sower? The Lord Jesus Christ went out sowing. All right? And it says, by night the enemy came in and sowed tares. You know what tares are? False wheat. The Lord Jesus Christ established His assembly. The devils established a whole bunch of them. But the world can't see which is which. And from the very beginning of the parables, here I'm teaching my parable class already, but from the very beginning The servant says, Lord, let us go out and root up the pears as they come up. And he said, no, don't do it. Because you can't tell which ones are pears and which ones are wheat. You'll disturb the wheat and tear up the good things. Wait till the end of the age, and I'll gather up the wheat, and then you bind up the pears and burn them. That time is the book of Revelation, the time that that talks about. And here we are today, so much further down the road than what John was, and Paul, and all the people who lived in church history until the time we come to. I had one preacher say one time, I am so excited about living in this age of prophecy. Because we can look back now and we can see more in prophecy than anybody a hundred or two hundred years ago could. because of the prophecy that has been fulfilled. We talked about, in the last several weeks, about the Antichrist, how he comes on the scene, and how God is going to allow this man of sin to come on the scene. And how God is about to do what for the Lord? To prepare His way. Do you think the devil is preparing a way for the Antichrist to come today? It's technology preparing a way for the Antichrist to come. Everything is for the world to set up. All right? We're there. We're at the point of time that we can look back and say, come now, Lord Jesus, soon. Because, as we can see, all of the things have been fulfilled to the point where we can say, the Lord is coming at any time. But they were at the end time. Now, Paul preached that they were at the end time in what he was preaching. Compared to history, it was the end time. The second coming of the Lord, in the futuristic view, what do we believe about the coming of the Lord Jesus? His coming is what? What is that little term? His coming is what? Eminent. What does eminent mean? We believe in the eminent return of Jesus Christ. What does that mean? It could happen, it's threatening to happen at any time. You may not make it home tonight. The rapture may come. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Me, too. It would be wonderful if we didn't have to face another world, a sin tomorrow, and have to deal with the world. You know, if you keep studying the Word of God, and keep infiltrating the Word of God in your life, pretty soon you're going to be just absolutely no earthly good. You'll be so heavenly minded that you'll be no earthly good at all. You don't want to be here. I have a neighbor out there where I live, and she's ready to go home, Mrs. Amos, and she's praying that God will take her home. She's ready. She has run her race, she says. I am ready to go home! And why in the world does he take me? I mean, I'm being patient. I'm eighty-something years old, but it's time to go home. I'm ready for a vacation. Now, to a child of God, it's a vacation. But to a lost man, it's hell. That's exactly what it is. It's hell. Because there is no rest. There is no vacation then. Revelation 16 and verse 14. talking about. Armageddon. Armageddon. Oh, I've heard about that term a lot. I even made movies about that. Revelation 16 and verse 14. Asin? Asin. Yar? Yar. Numata? Numata. daimonion, poionta, semea, ha, et foru et pedai. et epi, tus, basileus, teis, oikomenes, pōlēs, synagāgē, altus, tēs, tōn, pōlimōn, tēs, megalēs, emēros, tūthiyū, tū pantokratoros. Or, they are spirits of demons. All right? What is it talking about here? Remember? Who's speaking, who's he speaking to, and everything else. What's this writer speaking about here? You have to go back to verse 13, don't you? And then it says, Out of the mouth came forth slimy little unclean frogs, like spirits. All right? So these demonic spirits, like frogs, came out of the mouth of the dragon. And these spirits here, it says, are demon spirits. And then the word is poyutah. And that's present participle active. And what are these little dudes doing? Doing. That's what it means, doing or working. A product of employing them. What were they employing themselves doing? The spirits of demons doing signs, say me on, or say me off. Signs. That's a QC plural there. Doing signs. What are signs? Jesus did signs in His time, didn't He? What were the miracles for? Why did Jesus do miracles? Why did He do the miracles? These were his Messianic credentials. All right. They were showing that he was the Messiah that was to come. He was performing miracles, signs, great wonders, that all of Israel should have known that this is the Messiah that is to come. This is Jehovah that is to come in the flesh. Signs, witches. Twitches. Ha. That's twitch, but it's plural, so it's twitches. That's not good English, but it's twitches. All right? Twitches. These demons, each one of them goes out. Now this is basically bad grammar on the part of John's part, but it's Hebrew-speaking, okay? It should have said, it should have said they. This is not, this shouldn't be third person singular, but third person plural, but John wrote it in third person singular because he's thinking with a Hebrew mind. He's thinking about each one of these demon spirits as going out. This number, this verb here, the number of the verb, the person of the verb does not agree with its subject. But John is thinking not so much in perfect Greek grammar, but in the Hebrew thought of minds. He says, each one of these demon spirits goes out and wacks upon kings, kingdoms. These kings and kingdoms. All right? The ones, kings over kingdoms. Demon spirits. What can demon spirits do? They can possess people. They can lead you away from God. They can make you think that you're inspired. They can make you start a new religion. They did. They've done that in history, haven't they? By the way, Sunday morning is the Roundup Sunday. Get all your friends to come, as many as you can. Come in here at 9, 15. We're having free breakfast from, what, 7 to, or 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock or something like that. And come. It's always here, while we're out here for fun. And you can get your food or whatever. You don't even have to go pay up and have lunch that day. You can eat two breakfasts or whatever you want. Okay, go to Bill. Question, it crossed my mind, probably a simple question. But you know, the Jews don't believe that Jesus is Messiah. But they're going to believe this guy. Yes, they are going to believe this. That's what I was thinking. This is a setup. This is a setup. Jesus said, I did not come in my own name, I came in my Father's name, and you would not believe me. He said, there is one that will come in his own name that you shall believe. And believing him, they would be damned. And many of them will be damned. These false spirits go out upon kings. of the whole inhabited earth. They're going to assemble down together unto a great war. You know, when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, The oil companies said that there was a shortage of water, which there wasn't, but he believed them. I think he was probably one of the most honest presidents we ever had, but probably not one of the best informed, but one of the most honest. And he started building all types of solar energy panels all over and subsidizing them, subsidizing companies to help build these so they could produce energy and electricity. And we've had the technology here in this country to produce electric car for 30 years. But we haven't done it. Why? Because there's political clout where they all come in. You know why we go fight over in the Middle East? It's not for human rights. It's for oil. You know why we're over in horse... I can't think of her name now. The girl we sent over there to Bosnia? Is it Bosnia? Uh, can't even think of her name right now. Donna, Donna Robbins. She came over to this class when she came back here visiting. And they said, we're over there fighting a war over uranium. And calling it human rights. And killing Christian people. and calling it human rights. It has nothing to do with human rights. It has to do with big business. That's what it has to do with. Same thing in the Middle East. The almighty dollar, the love of money. Money is not the root of all evil, but the love of money is the root of all evil. Now, when you put the love of money in all of these people's hearts, The world is looking to the east. You know why? When Satan rebelled against God, God allowed him to... He could have zapped him and put him in hell right instantly. Did you know that? He could have. But he didn't do it. He permitted him to do something. What did Satan do? According to Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, what did Satan do to the physical universe? He destroyed it. Tore it up. Kicked it around. Like a kid that's mad in his room tearing up everything in sight, having a temper tantrum, a manic episode. Well Satan had his little manic episode and he destroyed this earth. In destroying this earth and tearing it all up, driving the animals and vegetation that was on the earth, oil was created in pools all over this world. Guess what one of the greatest pools of this black money is? under those desert fans over there. The best sulfur-free crude in the world is over there. You think it's a mistake, an accident? God allowed it to happen. He turned, God used him, whether he likes it or not, to bring about his purpose. When Moses was born, Pharaoh said that Moses was to be killed, exposed, and thrown out into the Nile River. His family saved him for a while, and then they finally did what the man, they exposed him, they put him out in the Nile River. And God overruled that, and let Pharaoh's daughter go out there and pick him up. Now this man that was going to be Moses, the one who draws out, and she even named him, She drew him out of the Nile River, but he was going to draw Israel out of Egypt. God even made Pharaoh pay for his education and for his living. He even paid his mother to nurse him and care for him. That's talent, people. And ability. But Moses drew Israel out of Egypt. God allowed Satan to have his little hegemonic episode. What were those references again Isaiah? Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. Right up here, see this up here on the little map you have? Satan's path, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. John 1 and 7, Ephesians 2 and 2, Revelation 12, 7 through 10, all of that talks about Satan's path on that little map. That would be between Genesis 1 and 2. Yes, that's the time leap between Genesis 1 and beginnings. Created Elohim the heavens and the earth and she became formless and more. God created the heavens and the earth and then something happened to that creation. Satan destroyed it. He got mad and had his little fit. Then the first chapter of the book, first and second chapter of the book of Genesis talks about the reconstruction or the rebuilding of that. Have you ever seen somebody rent a house? Rent out a house and they had a rent forward go in there and tear it plumb up and they had to reconstruct it? That's what happens. We had somebody in one of our houses after 11 years, and when they left, it took us 6 months and $6,000 in materials alone to rebuild, to restore that house back to where it was usable again. Well, the Lord only took 6 days to restore the earth back to the way it was before He made it and restored it, and He had it. But He allowed that mass of oil to go just exactly where it was. So in the last days, he could put in the hearts of evil men, the evil love of money, and they would want to go to the Middle East to have a great big war over that all. And in all reality, we don't even need it anymore. We could put up windmills, wind farms, and solar generators, and everything you could think of, energy cells. All this, we have the ability, but it's there, the technology is there, but the big money says not yet. Not yet, it's not time. Let us milk the people dry first. And then we'll go for that technology. That's where, that's what this love of money is what's going to draw all these people. That's the drawing factor. The book, in the books of Old Testament, the prophetic book says, I'm going to throw out an angler's hook and hook it in the jaws of these kings of these nations and drag them in, reel them into this area. And what's going to reel them in? The love of money and the love of power. That's what does it. of the great day of God, the Almighty, the great day of the God Almighty, Pantokratoros. That's Almighty. All-powerful. The all-powerful God puts Satan on a leash. Right now, he's on a leash. He's on a chain. He can do a lot of things, but he can't do everything he wants to do. He's leashed up. During a 1,000 year, by the way, the Calvinist idea of where we are today, we're in the millennial reign. Now, the lion hasn't laid down to the lamb yet, except that he might get in his belly. Can they have us in the millennial reign of the Lord? A lot of them, and I mean even the Southern Baptist idea. A post-millennial idea of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ was that the churches would bring in the millennial kingdom. We're supposed to go out and bring in the millennial kingdom and absolutely evangelize the whole world and make the world fit for God to come back. The book of Revelation doesn't teach that. They got off on the wrong hobby horse. They said, give me three million dollars, and we'll take the world for Christ. Well, it didn't work. World War I came along, and then World War II, and the Korean War, and the Vietnamese War, and everything else kind of war that you can think of. The war in the oily sands. All of this. 16 and verse 15. Revelation 16, verse 15. Edu. Edu. Educamani. hos, kleptes, makarios, ho, gregorion, kai, teron, ta, himatia, autu, hina, me, Dumbos, peripate, kai, blefusum, tein, aske-masine, and then altu. Behold, I come as a thief. He jumps back now, and he starts telling how he's going to come. He's going to come like a thief in the night. Now, when he came to this earth, when God came to Abraham, He made Abraham some promises, some of them conditional promises, and some of them unconditional promises. The promises that he made concerning Israel were conditional, weren't they? If Israel did this, then I'll do this. And also, he espoused her as if she was his wife, wasn't she? Israel was the wife of God. She was unfaithful, ungodly little wife. God divorced her, kicked her out, put her aside, and married him a new one. in the New Testament, the New Covenant, the new marriage of God. She was worthless, wasn't she? She will never be in a married relationship with God ever again, is what it was. But his new bride, who was this new bride that he would be calling out in this age? The churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are the bride of Christ. What shall make up the bride of Christ? Okay? This bride, It's supposed to keep herself clean, or she's not the bride, is she? If she's a filthy whore like the other one was, what's she going to be? She's not going to have any part for the Lord, is she? No. We talk about the great horror of Revelation. Talks about the false religion out there, that she's nothing but a prostitute. She is not the Lord's bride, but she's a prostitute. Like Israel was in the Old Testament. We ought to read that Old Testament and talk and see how God talks about Israel as a woman. There's some pretty strong language in there. I mean strong language. Hard language. You behold, I come as a thief. Kleptes. What do you think that word in English came from? Kleptomaniac. A thief. Somebody can't keep from stealing. All right? Behold, I come as... A thief. Blessed the one watching. Gregorio. Gregorio. The word Gregory comes from this word. The name Gregory. That means a watcher. One who watches. All right? Blessed, happy, content. Makarios. Blessed, happy, content. Laughing, hilarious. Just blessed. Remember Archbishop Makarios? Yeah. The happy one. Blessed the one watching, and then it says Teron. Teron. What does that word Teron? That's a present participle, active, nominee, singular masculine, comes from Terio. In Matthew 28, 18-20, it says, the Lord told His little church, He said, as you're going out into the world, make disciples. The disciples you make, you baptize them. And then what do you do? Teach them to observe. That word, observe, there, is terein. As President Kennedy directed, to terein, to guard with their lives. all the things that I've handed down to you, because these things are precious morsels of truth. Truth. Truth that separates you from the ungodly world that's going to hell. The truth that leads you to Jesus Christ. The truth that even leads you to His Ascension. You know, when you're born again, you're born into the family of God, the family of God. When you come into the covenant relationship with God, you will become into the church relationship. Grace relationships, church relationship, the atlasia. Church relationship with God. What is that church? One's called out, but what is that church? Who does she represent? The true New Testament church. The bride of Jesus Christ. Now, you can't do anything in this world to get saved, can you? There's no part of it. But it says, it says, "...blesses the one watching and the one keeping the garments of him." A bride is supposed to have white garments. What does that white garment represent? Purity and what? Test of chastity. All right? She is a test virgin. All right? Do you think the Lord is going to marry anybody that's a woman that's not a virgin? Guess what he did to the old prostitute in the Old Testament? He got rid of her. She wasn't fit to be his wife. Well, we're saved. We're saved by the grace of God. And in New Testament, New Covenant relationships, We make ourselves fit, by the grace of God, to be a co-heir with Jesus Christ forever. That's all. How long, according to the book of Ephesians, is God going to receive glory through His Bride? Through His Church? Yom-Toni-Yom-Toni-Yom. What's that mean, Brother Tim? Ages upon ages. Ages upon ages. Forever and forever and forever. And that's what this is talking about. keeping the garments of him, in order that not he be naked, that he might walk about naked." Gum notes. Walk about naked. That the world may see his shame. They see his shame. You're lost out in the world. You're just like everybody else, son. Just like everybody else. Everybody's all happy out there, lost. Everything they're doing is just fine. They're not having to please anybody. But when you're born again, you've got a conscience, don't you? And then you feel bad when you're doing wrong, don't you? God lets you know that you're doing wrong. And you can be blushed. You can blush. You don't want God to catch you in some bar or doing something that will misalign you with the wrong crowd. If the Lord was to come back at that moment and you were out doing something you weren't supposed to do, would you blush? Would you be ashamed? Sure you would. Sure you would. 16 and verse 16. Well, buddy, I think you're going to let out here pretty soon, so I'm going to let you out just a little bit early too. a little bit after seven. Kai? Sina gahim. Sina gahim. Altus? Ais? Thon? Thopon? Thon? Thon. Armageddon. And he assembled them. Who assembled them? Who's calling these people together, these armies? The God of heaven. He is calling them together. And these evil spirits are doing the initial calling, but God's doing the allowing in. These evil designs in people's hearts, these evil spirits are going out and calling these people there, and God is allowing it to happen, so God is, in a secondary way, causing it, isn't He? Because that's what He wants to be done. It's His eternal purpose and unpreventable progress. And He assembled them unto a place. There it says, eis ton topon. Eis is, what is that word? A little preposition. What does it declare? The idea of what? Extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. Boy, that's a big one, isn't it? Extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. Unto, because of, or in reference to, or into, or to. Let's see how it's used here in this syntax. And he assembled them unto the place. The place being called. This word comes from Kalio, alright? Being called in Hebrew, Hebraiste. In Hebrew, Parmageddon. Alright. You can look this up on Thayer on page 73, Brother Jim, if you've got Thayer's idyllic lexicon. And cross-reference, Isaiah 63, 1-4, Revelation 14, 11-20, Judges 5 and 19. Now this city and place, the place of the Valley of Megiddo, now there's been a lot of battle fought there. Judges 5.19, like I said. 2 Kings 23 and verse 29. 2 Chronicles 35 and verse 22. Zechariah 12 and verse 11 are cross-references to this place. Now, the real place that we're talking about, God is going to create. This place, this battlefield, it doesn't exist today. It's going to be 200 miles long. That battlefield doesn't exist over there today. But we know that the Mount of Olives is going to be split wide open and there's going to be a great valley and a great rift and by the way seismology, the seismologists have realized, that's the ones that study earthquakes, that that rift is there to make this place 200 miles long. The Bible says it's going to be 200 miles long. It doesn't exist yet. Is the book of Revelation the book of prophecy? Yeah. 200 miles long. It's really going to be there. It is and doesn't exist today. But the center of this place is right here, what it talks about. And that word Armageddon, or Harmageddon, as in Hebrew, Megiddo, It means the place where troops are cut to pieces. The place where troops are cut to pieces, or the mountain where the troops are cut to pieces. Sixteen in verse seventeen. Tai? Tai. Ho? Ho. Kebdamas? Kebdamas. And then we have this word, ektim. Thane, Thialein, Altu, Epi, Tone, Etera, Tai, Excelsing, Fone, Megale, Ek, Tu, Nahu, Akol, tū, tronu, lagusa, gegonim. And then it says, the seventh what? Angel. He poured out the thalat phialen, this bowl, this container, What does this bucket contain, by the way? The anger, the wrath of God. He pours out the wrath of God upon the air. Era. There's an oil company called Era now, and it used to be mobile. I'm in the wrath of a mobile oil company, Era. No, this is the air. He pours it out on the air. And then it says, "...and there came out a voice great, out of the gloving place from the throne, saying, It has become." Look at that word, it has become. In John 1 and verse 14, it says, "...and the word," who's that word? The Lord? Who is He, though? Who was He, actually? Who? God? Christ? What's His Hebrew name, that nobody knows how to say? He who shall become, which is Jehovah. And it says, and the word, or the Jehovah, or that's how we title that word, whether that's the way we'll say it or not, And the word flesh became. That comes from Gemini. If they get it from there, third person singular, Paris, indicative middle. And the word flesh, the Jehovah flesh, became. Now look what it says here. And these, a voice out of the most holy dwelling place of God, says this, these things have occurred or have become. Genesis 1 and verse 2, and the earth she became. The same idea, changing from one state to another. The idea of changing from one state of being to another. Verse 18, Go on next week, we're going to talk about the Battle of the Greats. All right. Here we go again. Six and eighteen. PRABHUPĀDA Tāi. Ponei. Tāi. Bronte. Tāi. Saismos. Egeneto. Megas. Poyos. Pū. Egeneto. A. Pū. Antropos. Egeneto. Epi. Peisgeis. telikkuṁtas, saismos, bhūto, megas. All right. Look at all this word, all these words become. A lot of becoming here. And they became, they, there came to pass, lightnings, asteropods, Now this could mean lightnings and it could mean falling stars. It is a light in the heavens, flashing lights, okay? Flashing lights, lightnings. And then phoné. What's that word phoné? Our word phonograph comes from it. What do you hear from a phonograph? Voices of noises that mean something that are in the mind, okay? Sounds. Sounds. Sounds of bronti. We get the word brontosaurus. Alright. Thunders. Thundering one. That's what a brontosaurus was. Thundering one. And we have voices or sounds or intelligible language. A thunders. And then it says chi. Seismos, what's a seismos business? What is this? Seismosis? Someone that studies earthquakes. I have a friend called Davis Farnsworth. How many of you have heard of the name Farnsworth? Huh? All right. Farnsworth was a guy that helped invent, he was a ham operator by the way, and he's a scientist. He studied the what? Huh? Yeah? They even did public television on him. But all of his family, they basically put televisions in your house, they electrified your house, switches. They had a lot to do with all the electrical appliances in your house, his family did. David Farnsworth has invented a machine that can predict earthquakes for 48 hours ahead of time. No more than 48 hours, but he can tell where an earthquake is going to take place in 48 hours. Well, the government does not want it. Because they said we can figure that out alright fine, but there would be mass hysteria. If he says LA is going to have an earthquake tomorrow night, what would happen? There would be more people killed leaving LA than there would be in the earthquake. So he said my invention is not good enough for them. I tell them I can tell this, but I can't. predicted more than 48 hours, and they said, you need a couple of weeks. Tell us two weeks at a time. We need something 14 days. Well, if it was out in Lancaster, it wouldn't be too bad, or Mojave, or the way Lancaster used to be, that is. Maybe Bishop. Lone Pine, you could evacuate that place in 48 hours. But what other place can you evacuate in 48 hours without mass hysteria? Earthquakes. There's great thunders, great voices, noises, lightnings, falling stars, earthquakes. Every one of these things became—look at that word again, Joe—they became, just like—how many of you have a dishwasher? How about a washing machine? It's got cycles. You've got a microwave. You can put something in there and put five minutes on there and it goes through a cycle and shuts itself off. Alright? Another thing here, if you'll go to the First Corinthians, you'll find out that all of the gifts in the church that were given to the church ceased to exist at the coming of the New Testament. When it became, when the Bible was completed, those gifts, except for three, ceased to be. They shut themselves off just like an automatic washing machine, a dishwasher, and a microwave shuts itself off. Now, these things became and occurred for themselves, automatically, according to the will and the purpose of God, it says here. And it says, nothing has ever occurred like this from the time that mankind became on this earth. Now, before man was put on this earth, you know, we're talking about, this is the first chapter. Before mankind was put on this earth, was there some great big shaking that took place over here? How'd them dinosaurs get down there five miles and drown? It was a great big, a lot of big shaking on the earth, but it says, since man was following the earth, there's never been explosions and destruction like this, ever. Since man came to be upon the earth. Such earthquakes! So great. Such great earthquakes. Now just think back in history, recorded history, now, Think back for a while. This is the fifth thing. Think back and record in history now. The book of Genesis says that in the days of Peleg, the earth was divided. It says that the power of the Bible, God confused the languages. Now I believe that. I don't care what so-called scientist says when they say, well, the Bible is just a bunch of men writing down things. What do you think class science is? It's just a bunch of men writing down things. Except these men that God inspired to write down things, God was behind them and he moved them along. And the best way I know how to say that, how many of you ever studied horsemanship? Peter talked about horsemanship when he says, and men of old were moved by the Holy Spirit of God. The way he talks about moving them back then, how many of you ever watched Olympus on a stallion? on television or in person. How many of you have ever watched Versailles, where they make the horses move every foot step that they move? I mean, it's an absolute... How many of you have ever watched Trigger? Trigger was a Versailles horse. He could dance this way and that way, and you know who was making him do that? The writer. Trigger wasn't doing it. Roy Rogers was keying him to do these things. He could jump on his foot like this, he'd walk, and dance his rear end around like this, and then dance his front end back and forth, and bounce back and forth, and do all kinds of things. Somebody was cueing him. Absolutely making him cue. Cutting horses. How many of you have watched a cutting horse contest? Cutting horses, you take them out there, and you give them legs, what they call legs. You move them around with your legs, just a little spur here, a little spur there, and you get them to work in these cattle. Finally, you get them where they're starting to think cow, they've got cow in their head, and they start to move around. And these guys, most of the time, they're very big chaps, you can't tell when they're kicking that horse. But those horses are like, they're solid horses. It just takes a little leg here, a little leg there, a little tightness here. One time, I trained a real good corner horse, And I trained him for almost a brand new Oldsmobile. And there was a guy from Texas that moved out there and he wanted to buy his daughter a real good show horse. A western pressure show horse. I said, well, I've got one. He's not worth a dime out in the hills. It's a cow horse, but he's real good in the ring and the shoulder and he's great. He's as good as you can get. I said, I have trained him and he is broke. He come out there and I said, now, can you ride a horse? Oh, I can get on a riding horse all my life. I said, have you ever been rode a broke horse before? I mean something that's trained in western dressage. Yeah. He jumped on that horse, he was going down, and I don't know whether you know, but the horses change leads, which way they're leading, you know, they're leading with this leg or leading this leg, and different. And when you're working out there, when they go to a right lead change, and then when you do what they call serpentine lead changes, you're changing leads like this. Well, if you lean just a little bit far, and we'll saddle one way, he's going to change lanes over here. If you lean this way, he's going to change lanes over here. This guy gets on the horse and starts loafing down here, and the horse is going like this. And then he finally leans too far, and the horse rolls back on him, turns around, and he's still over here, and the horse is right up there. He's going over there, and he says, that horse has got power steering. He said, I never rode anything like that in my life. I want that horse. I said, you're going to have to learn how to ride him. I said, you have to sit in the middle of that saddle and stay there. And if you move either way, he thinks you're going to want him to go that way. The Holy Spirit of God, when he inspired this book of Revelation, those writers, John was just like one of those well-trained dressage horses. He wrote it down in his words, but he did exactly what the Holy Spirit said God or heaven wanted him to do. It was God's will and his perfect plenary, verbal inspiration of the Word of God. That's what you see. And that's the only way, and that's the way Peter describes the inspiration of the Bible. And that's the only way I know how to tell you. That's the way it was done. The writer was God. And He gave them the cues. And in their own language, with their own muscles and everything, they wrote these down. But it was by the inspiration of God. God bless you for your attention tonight. Thank you for your perseverance, coming and sitting here for an hour in these hard seats. Father, we come to you in thanking you for your Word, Father. Help us to hide it in our hearts and not only just hide it there, but tell others about it. Help us to go out and bring others to the classes so they can teach and they can honor and glorify you with their lives. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the conviction of that word in Jesus name we pray. Amen.