Alright, let's turn to Revelation 12. We're going to finish Revelation 12 tonight and get into Chapter 13. Revelation 12. Can I ask Brother Dennis, do you mind praying and blessing the service please? Bye. Amen. All right, we're in Revelation 12 and down in verse 16, it says, And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. Now, a couple of things before we go any further, I actually missed some stuff and had a couple of the guys come up and say, well, what about this? And I was like, well, that's true. Let me put that. I'll mention that next week. Something to keep in mind and remember is that the theme of chapter 12 has been the Jews and what those Jews are doing and what they're going through and all that stuff. And so 12 is there's 12 tribes and 12 in the Bible. You know, there's an interesting study on Bible numerology, and there's something to it. I'm not talking about a secular, worldly numerology where they get all weird about the number 22. Have you seen all that stuff and the number 23 and all that? That's not... That's not what I'm talking about. Within scripture, the Lord, He adds value and meaning to certain numbers. And so when that number shows up, you go, oh, that's connected to this. You'll find that all through the Bible. In fact, in a minute, I'll show you a couple more. We're going to get to Revelation 13, and you're going to find the importance of that number. and why that number shows up. 80% of the time throughout scripture, that 13 is a negative, including the chapters and verse markings. I mean, 80 plus percent of the time. Now, listen, that's not an accident. Over and over and over again, that 13 shows up and it's connected to an antichrist. And the Lord's trying... You ever go to a hotel that has over 13 floors? And you'll sit there and it'll go 12, 13. Well, that's because there's superstition connected to it. Because people used to believe a Bible. And we'll look at that when we get to it. But this 12 is connected to those Jews. And so we've got these Jews running into the wilderness. And they're fleeing for their lives in this, This dragon, this devil is coming after him and you'll see what he does. Actually, I missed it. Verse 15, the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman. And I gave you a couple of things that could have been. I showed you how that could be literally. I mean, it could be a literal thing. where the dragon is physically here and he goes over the Jordan River and pulls up water and makes a flood. I also showed you there in Job where he can control the elements, but I missed one. And there's a third option that it could have been, and it's connected to that word flood. Look at, let me just show it to you like this. Look at Revelation 17. Revelation 17. And it could be that that flood there is actually an army and it's people. Revelation 17. And look at verse 1. And there came one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither. I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. And then the Bible defines itself in verse 15. It says, And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people, peoples, excuse me, and multitudes and nations and tongues. So it's defined within the passage. It's actually the Lord's giving you a visual of something, and it's got this whore there, and that whore ends up being the Roman Catholic system, and I've given you stuff on that. We'll keep giving you more on that, and you'll see how satanic that thing is. But the thing she's sitting on, the waters there, it's called, it's people. And you'll find that in the Old Testament. Look at 2 Samuel 22. 2 Samuel chapter 22. And you'll find this thing a number of times. So it could be that the devil's got an army after those Jews and the ground's gonna open up and eat them. That was Southern, eat them. 2 Samuel 22, look at verse five. 2 Samuel 22, five. Actually, let's just back up a few verses. You'll see in verse 1, David spake unto the Lord with the words of this song. So he's singing, verse 2, and he said, The Lord is my rock and my fortress. Verse 3, The God of my rock and Him will I trust. He's talking about the Lord. Verse 4, I'll call on the Lord. Verse 5, When the waves of death come past me, the floods of ungodly men Made me afraid. There's a cross reference there. And there's so many people, it's like a wave. He's like in the whole multitude, like a wave hitting them. Look at a couple more. Look at Isaiah 59. Isaiah chapter 59. Isaiah 59 verse 19. Isaiah 59, 19, So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Look at Jeremiah 46, one book to your right. Jeremiah 46. Jeremiah 46, look at verse 7. 46 verse 7. 46, 7, and 8. Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers. And he saith, I will go up and will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. So what it could be is that the devil's actually sending forth a bunch of devil-possessed soldiers there, and there's an army going after those Jews, and it likens it to a flood, which actually is a better cross-reference for Numbers 16. Numbers chapter 16. And I ended up reading the whole story to you last week. I won't do that again. But keeping in mind this passage, just look at a couple things here. Numbers chapter 16, and I remember I went over this story about Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. You guys remember that? Anybody remember last week? Okay. Number 16, these men, they come up against Moses. You see the type here? This is the children of Israel. in the wilderness being fed before they get to the promised land. Do you see the type? It's a picture of a tribulation Jew. It's an ensample. Those Jews are going to go back in the wilderness, be fed of the Lord, and then there's somebody after them. And so here you've got some men that have gathered themselves against Moses. I'm going to look at it and write these down. Look at verse 3. It says, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. But then look over... I should have wrote it down, I thought I'd be able to remember. Skip over, it'll be in the 20s. Numbers 16, look at verse 21. Separate yourselves from among the congregation that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces, and so it said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wrath of all the congregation? The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram. And the elders of Israel followed him, and he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men. skip down to verse 31, And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking, all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods, and the Lord just swallows them up using the earth. So it could be that it's a parallel. Some men come up against Israel again, and the way the Lord protects them is, I showed you, I showed you a few places where it looks like the earth just opens up and they just fall right down into hell. Body and soul, the whole thing goes down. Alright, there's a couple thoughts about that. Go back to Revelation 12. We'll wrap up the chapter here. Revelation 12. And we're going to key in on a part of this, and I want to teach you something here. And I know some of you will know this, but I want to give you a few thoughts about a dispensational salvation. Look at Revelation 12, 17. The Bible says, And the dragon was wrath with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed. Well, that has to be Jews, right? The remnant of her seed, the seed of Israel, they would be more Jews. And so watch what happens. Watch what they do. the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God one, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Okay? So now we've taught on some of this before, but that is that they're keeping commandments and have faith. That's a faith and works-based salvation. And that's not what you and I have. Turn a few chapters over, look at Revelation 15, verse 3. Where'd you get the commandments from? It was a man named Moses, right? The law and all that, it comes from Moses. Look at Revelation 15, and verse three says, it says, and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. So that's works, that's Moses, and the Lamb, that's faith. See that? Faith and works. So that's contrary to your salvation. No one ever came into our church service on Sunday morning and opened a hymn book and sang about the commandments. Started singing about the law. Started singing about abstaining from pork and going to church on Saturday, amen? We sing the song of the lamb though, don't we? Don't we get up there and talk about that lamb as much as we can? There's power in the blood. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood. That's the blood of the lamb. We sing the song of the lamb. But there, that's a song, that salvation that has two parts. Now what you have is the Old Testament is not the same as the New. One of them's called Old, and the other one's called New, amen? Let me ask you something. If the Old Testament was good enough, why'd the Lord have to make a new one? Why did Jesus Christ have to come and die on the cross if we're all saved the same? We're not all saved the same. That's an old, weird, fundamentalist thing. We're looking forward to the cross. Well, in type they were, but none of them were putting their faith in the death, burial, and resurrection before. You know how I know that? You ever seen those places over and over and over again when Jesus Christ is dealing with his disciples? his 12, the ones that are right up next to him, and he'll explain to them, hey guys, I'm gonna go to the cross, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna be buried, I'm gonna rise again, and they go, we don't know what you're talking about. Well how in the world could Peter, James, and John be saved before the cross if they didn't even put their faith in what happened at the cross? It's not the same. Now let me show you something. I wanna take a minute and kinda show you another angle on this thing. Look at Romans chapter three. Now, in an attempt, and that's what it is, it's a feeble one at that, but in an attempt, the fundamentalist, in his attempt to show that salvation is by grace through faith plus nothing, he's had to rewrite the Old Testament and cram New Testament salvation into an Old Testament system. And so here's what they'll do, they're gonna go to the Romans road. Now, I will admit, I have used the Roman road hundreds of times, and I've probably led at least 100 plus people to Christ using the Romans road. I'm about to show you that part of the Romans road is wrong. And if you misapply it, I'm about to show you that there's a verse in Romans that if you take it for face value, it's actually not telling the truth, it's wrong, it's incorrect. Okay, now bear with me. I'm gonna show you what's going on and once you see them, you're gonna see two verses side by side and go, oh, that verse is actually not saying what we say it says when we give the Romans road. Look at Romans three, I'm gonna explain it here in a second. Look at Romans three, look at verse 10. As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are all together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no not one. Now how many of you have ever used the Romans Road and you get to write there those verses and especially verse 10 and say, there's none righteous, no not one. Who's ever done that? Oh, that's not true. It's absolutely not, it's absolutely incorrect. The next verse says, there's none that seeketh after God. How many of you came here tonight trying to get something from the Lord? You're seeking after God. The Bible says there's none that seek after God. Is that verse a lie? Or is Paul quoting an Old Testament passage to try to give you an example of something? What actually is going on here, and I'll show it to you in a second, he's quoting an Old Testament passage from the book of Psalms, talking about a specific group of people. And within that group of people, there's none doing good. There's none righteous, and there's none within a certain group of people that aren't seeking after God. How many of you in here are born again? There was a day you were seeking after God, amen. I'm not even saying you're seeking after him tonight. Maybe you're not. At some point in your life, you went to the cross and you were like, God, where are you? I need my soul saved. Isn't that right? Nope. According to that verse, none of you are seeking after God. That's what a fundamentalist will do with that passage. There's no righteous. All righteousness is filthy rags. And they'll just stop right there. And they'll actually mess themselves up theologically by misapplying the passage. Let's look what the passage actually says. Look at Psalms 53. Here's the passage that's being quoted. You know what Paul's doing? Paul's doing what I do all the time. If you were here on Sunday, I gave you illustration after illustration after illustration of fathers and sons. You remember the sermon Sunday? And then I took those physical stories and I applied it spiritually, right? Paul's taking an Old Testament passage about a certain group, bringing it forward and saying, hey, the righteousness of Jesus Christ is what you need for salvation. Do you know that you can be righteous? You can absolutely. Old Testament men were called righteous at times. Were they righteous enough to get to heaven? No. It wasn't pure righteousness. It wasn't perfect righteousness. But they were righteous. That verse says there's none that doeth good. I can show you places where there's places where God says they did do good. So either there's a contradiction or we're misapplying one or the other. Does that make sense? There's no contradictions in the Bible. That can't be the answer. Psalms 53. I think everyone turned there but me. Psalms 53. And look at verse 2. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and that did seek God. Every one of them has gone back. They are all together become filthy. There is none that doeth good, no not one. Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God." Now stop. I've taught you what that is. That's a tribulation passage. Keep your hand here and turn to Genesis chapter six with me, okay? Keep your hand here and turn to Genesis chapter six. Genesis chapter six. You know what's going on here in Genesis chapter six, folks? This is the start of the story of Noah and the flood. And it's the start, the start of God's judgment. He's looking at the thing and He's weighing out whether or not He should just start over or not. He's looking at a thing and He's about to say, I'm going to scrap it and start over with you, Noah. You guys know what I'm talking about? So watch Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5 says, And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Now, come forward to Psalms 53, and you're seeing a very similar thing. Do you know why? Because the Bible says, as it's going to be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man, that's the tribulation. That's out ahead of where we are right now. He says, just like it was with Noah, where everyone's imagination was evil and it was continually evil, that's how it's going to be during this time. Psalms 53 is talking about this time. So it's specific about the time. Because you know what happens after the flood? A man named Abraham is born. And the Lord looks down at Abraham and goes, I'm going to count your faith for righteousness. Men like Moses are born. There's all these good men. The Lord starts fresh and has Israel go. But there was a time where things were so bad, the Lord says, I'm going to scrap it and start over. There's coming a time that's so bad, the Lord says, I'm going to scrap it and start over. And he literally, the Bible says, he has to make a new heaven and a new earth, because the old things are passed away. He burns it up. All right, Psalms 53, verse 5 now, it says, There were they in great fear, where no fear was, for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them. O, that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion, when God bringeth back the captivity of his people. Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. It's all prophetic. So you see what Paul's doing? Paul's taking an Old Testament passage and trying to give you a spiritual application, but the doctrinal application is still future. It's still prophetic. It's God looking down at people who are killing a bunch of Jews and becoming cannibals, literally, eating tribulation saints. So when Paul's quoting the verse, he's not saying that there's no one righteous. He's just saying, well, remember how this is written? Now let me give you a spiritual application. Your righteousness can't get you to heaven. You see that? There's a difference, okay? And what's interesting about that is, because the fundamentalists will stand behind a pulpit and go, there's none righteous, there's none righteous. There are plenty of people in the Old Testament that were righteous. There's none that do us good. There's plenty that do good. It's specific in Psalms 53 to a certain group of people. Do you understand it? I'm beating a dead horse, I'm making sure we're all on the same page. Listen, look at Proverbs chapter 10. Just turn one book to the right of Psalms there, Proverbs 10. There are plenty of people in the Old and the New Testament, Old and New Testament, by the way, that were righteous and that were good. Not righteous enough to get to heaven, mind you. But in that Old Testament, they were righteous enough to make it down to Abraham's bosom. Proverbs 10, look at verse 11. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Well, there must have been a righteous man around for them to compare it to. They're saying that there was a righteous man there, and they're saying he's a well of life. See how that, oh, there's none righteous. Yes, there was. Psalms 53 was about a certain group. Look at Proverbs 12, verse 10. A righteous man regarded the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Do you know what a lot of Proverbs is? Telling you how to be righteous. It's telling you that it's attainable. Proverbs 13, look at verse five. A righteous man hateth lying, but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Look at chapter 21. You know what's interesting is if you read your Proverbs, I recommend you read one for every day of the month, because there's about 31. So whatever the day's date is, that's the one I read, and try to read them all the way through. You know what you'll find in Proverbs? A whole bunch of stuff in there that's like Old Testament salvation. Of course, you can make spiritual application. It's good. You can apply it. But all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable, number one, for doctrine. And you have to figure out the doctrine first, Proverbs 21, 12. 2112, the righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked, but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Now let me show you, look at 2 Peter. Let me show you an Old Testament saint that's righteous. 2 Peter 2. You say, what are you showing all this for? I'm trying to show you that there was a difference in salvation. 2 Peter 2, look at verse 6. 2 Peter 2, look at verse 6. 2 Peter 2.6, And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly, and delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked. For that," what is the word? Righteous man, dwelling among them and seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul. It's like the Lord's emphasizing it. Righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. It's saying Lot was a righteous man. That's an Old Testament saint right there. I thought the Bible said there's none righteous. No. Paul was quoting a specific passage about one group. You know why I'm bringing this up? Because I didn't learn this until I was 19 years old, 20 years old. I remember learning the Romans wrote as a kid, when I read there's none righteous, I assumed there was just none righteous. How many of you did? That's how I grew up. I grew up in a good church, but they were just, that's what they read. Oh, there's none righteous. No, that passage was about a specific group. There was righteous people. And that's actually how they got saved. Look at now, let me show you a couple more. Look at Nehemiah 13. Nehemiah. How many of you have read the book of Nehemiah? Okay. How many of you have read Nehemiah and come away thinking he was kind of pious? You know what I'm talking about? Some of you haven't read it. It's okay. By next week, amen. I'm going to ask you again. Nehemiah 13. Now tell me if you'd ever hear a New Testament Christian speak the way Nehemiah does. Because there's a difference. Look at Nehemiah 13, 14. First off, you guys, Nehemiah was a wild man. Nehemiah got mad at some people over some stuff and was grabbing them and ripping out their beards and making them repent. And you know where we figure out, talk about the pulpit of wood? Ezra and Nehemiah talk about a pulpit of wood. That's where we get it. It's not in the New Testament. That's an Old Testament thing. Because guys like Nehemiah would get up behind the pulpit and preach, and they were hard preachers, and they'd come out from the pulpit and grab somebody and stuff, and they were dealing with some real sin there. Now watch, but see how this Old Testament saint, not a New Testament saint, You know how you're saved? Nothing but the blood. None of your righteousness is involved at all. It's all His. But in the Old Testament, the righteousness of Jesus Christ had not been shed abroad yet. So watch, look at Numbers, or Numbers, Nehemiah 13, 14. Nehemiah speaking. Remember me, O God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of God and for the offices thereof. Why is he worried about his good deeds being wiped out? I don't have to worry about it. My good deeds don't have anything to do with it. I'm putting all my faith in one good deed right there. I put it all on him. But that guy's actually worried about something being wiped away. Look at 1331. And for the wood offering at times appointed and for the first fruits, remember me, oh my God, for good. I thought there was none good but God. No, in that Old Testament and in the New Testament, you can be a good man. It was specific about a group. Do you understand what I'm saying? Alright, look at Luke 23. Look at Luke chapter 23. I'm beating this dead horse, but he keeps getting back up. Luke 23 and verse 50. Luke 23, 50. This is after the death of Christ and they're going to bury him. Verse 50 says, And behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor, and he was a good man and a just. That's in the New Testament. He's a good man. Look at Titus 1. Titus chapter 1. Just a little bit of sound doctrine here for just a minute if I can. Titus 1.8, that's what I'm trying to do at least. Titus 1.8. Here's Pauline gospel, amen? Pauline doctrine. Titus 1, look at verse 8. I love hearing the sounds of pages turning, man. It's a blessing. Titus 1, look at verse 8. It says, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of what? Good men, sober, just, holy-tempered. Paul said there's none good. No. He was quoting something about a certain group, okay? Now, I'm telling you right now, though, the goodness in the New Testament doesn't do anything for your soul. You understand what I'm getting at? I'm trying to give you some specifics about the Old Testament. That Old Testament system was about what the man did. And here's about the best verse I can think on it, and there's probably other ones that may even be better, but off the top, look at John 5. Now, I'll tell a quick story, and then I'll read the verse. John chapter 5, I'll let everyone get there. John chapter 5, when we were in Scotland, There was a fellow who started coming to our church, his name was Camille, and he was a Polish gypsy who'd gotten saved, just a real, real rough life, and he was a real blessing, because he was a man's man, and he'd go out, he was real quiet, but he'd pass out tracks, and, you know, just a real serious kind of fellow. And before he came to our church, he'd been going to another Baptist church in town, have nothing against the guy, but he's not, he didn't believe in dispensation. Everyone saved the same. There's no difference. They're saving the Old Testament by looking forward to the cross. We're saved by looking back to the cross and all that stuff that sounds nice, but there's no scripture to say that, by the way. And dealing with Camille, Camille had been going to that church. And he came and he goes, hey, I'm really struggling with this one thing. How is it that we're all, how are we saved different? And if it's by the grace of God, we're all sinners, and how can it be any different? And I ran him through all the verses. And you know what I told him? I said, brother, pray about it. Now, you'll find that that's my answer about a lot of things, because I'm stupid and young and I don't want to make a mistake. So a lot of times, I'll just say, here's what the Bible says, but you ought to pray about it. Someone asked me about a Bible doctrine, asked me about my opinion or counsel on something, I'll say, here's what I think, here's the verses that come to mind, here's the biblical principles that'll help you, but why don't you pray about it? So I told him, I said, pray about it and read your Bible. And one Sunday, he came up to me with a big old smile on his face and said, I found it. And I said, what'd you find? He goes, the Lord showed me the verse. He goes, the Lord showed me the verse to prove that they're saved different in the Old Testament versus the New Testament. And it's right here in John 5, verse 28 and 29. John 5, 28 and 29. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth. They that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. Now this is Jesus Christ speaking, right? This is all pre-cross. So he's talking about Old Testament saints and technically, I mean, he's pointing out into the future, but we won't get into that right now, but he's talking about there's a resurrection coming. And what he's really getting at, and when you fast forward that thing and come all the way to the end of Revelation, do you know what you have in Revelation chapter 20? The Great White Throne Judgment. Let's just turn there. Look at Revelation 20. Revelation 20. Revelation 20, verse 12. Revelation 20, look at verse 12. Here's the final judgment before we step out and go out into eternity and heaven forever and ever. There's one final judgment, and listen, it is not your judgment. You're born again. You're saved. You're already redeemed. You know what's a blessing? Your sins were judged at Calvary. Do you understand that? So you don't have to stand at the great white throne judgment. You were already judged right here. You were guilty, He was innocent, but He gives you His innocence and takes your guilt and He dies for you. Get that? Now look at Revelation 20 verse 12. And I saw the dead small and great, dead, dead, dead. What did you read over in John 5? The resurrection. I saw the dead small and great stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to if they put their faith in the grace of God. According to the blood of Christ? No, it says according to their works. Cross-reference that with John 5, verse 29. It says, "...and shall come forth they that have done good." So they did good works. unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, evil works, unto the resurrection of damnation. Verse 13 of Revelation 20 says, And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works. Verse 15, Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now you guys, if you guys have been listening to the study on the seven baptisms, we're getting to that one on fire, there it is right there. That's why it's called a lake of fire. But they're judged on their works. There's a difference. It's not the same. It's not the same as ours. You know why, folks? We trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. If I was being judged there, which I won't be, but if I was, I'd point to him and say, uh, he did all the work for me. If you're going to judge any works, please don't judge mine because mine will land me in the lake of fire. But I put my faith in his work and he did it all and he was perfect. He was good. He was righteous. He took care of the whole thing. Amen. All right. Look at Romans, uh, Now, let's turn here quickly, Romans 4, just real quick, just so that we're on the same page. That, what I just showed you, is Old Testament salvation and tribulation salvation. It's based on the works. But what does our salvation look like? Romans 4. Romans 4. Look at verse 5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Abraham has to do good works. Moses has to do good works. David has to do good works. I've dealt with some of these guys before that say we're all saved the same. And I've never got a straight answer to any of this. I'll tell them, I've asked them, I said, when did Abraham get born again? When did David ask Jesus into his heart? David wrote a whole bunch of words, and not one time does he say, I just went down to the altar and I put my faith in Christ. When did Moses get washed in the blood of the Lamb? See that? I can show you where Paul got saved. I can show you where New Testament saints get saved. It's always by the blood. Let me ask you this. Just stop for a second. The Bible says in Acts 4, What's the name? Jesus. Why doesn't David ever talk about putting his faith in the name of Jesus? Why doesn't Abraham do it? Why doesn't Moses do it? Why doesn't Joshua do it? Not one time? They're looking for the cross, huh? They never put their faith in Christ. I already showed you this last time, so we don't have to hit it again. But one of the main reasons you know for a fact that no one in that Old Testament is saved the way we're saved is they don't go where we go when we die. Those Old Testament saints went down into paradise and waited in the heart of the earth. Neighbors with hell, I showed you those verses. You and I don't have to, I go up. I'm going right through, right to Him. And those guys had to wait for Christ to come down and preach to them. They had to wait for someone to finish the work. Amen? Alright, back to Revelation 13. Everybody alright? Alright. Revelation 13. Alright. Now we get into some crazy stuff. Good stuff though. Revelation 13. And verse 1. And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast. rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of Blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority. Now we're going to stop, and we're going to take our time with this. And now I'm looking at the time, and I went way longer than I was supposed to on that other stuff. So I'll give you the basics, and then we'll get into this a lot more next week. This is two weeks in a row that I haven't had to print off any new, because I'm taking too long. It doesn't matter. I noticed something today. I showed you there, if you guys were in our Daniel class, and this was a while ago, so I'll show it to you again and with time. But in Daniel, there's a place where it'll talk about something and it'll say it's a king, but then you'll look and it says it's also a kingdom. Remember that? That's what this beast is, by the way. This beast is going to be a representative of both the Antichrist, which is why we'll say the devil, the beast, which is the Antichrist, and the false prophet. There'll be a trinity of the devil's trinity. But that beast is also a kingdom. I was actually putting up this, and I pointed it out to my mom today. I noticed I looked at that word kingdom right there, and I saw king and dominion. I never noticed that before. It never even crossed my mind. But that's what he has. He's not just a king. It's also a kingdom. He has dominion. That king has dominion. And what you have here is the start of probably one of the most important prophetic chapters in scripture. And it's the number 13. It's about to get highlighted big time. That number 13, now we know, and you can actually, we don't have to read it for time's sake, but in verse 18, you have the infamous 666. And there's another interesting thing right there, 18 is six plus six plus six, save that for later. But that number 13, is a very, very important number in Scripture. And it shows up all through the Bible, all through Scripture. It's got all kinds of issues. In fact, just turn over to Genesis real quick. I'm trying to remember where it was. It's Genesis 14. Genesis chapter 14. Remember the thing of the law first mentioned? Have I taught you all that? Genesis 14. For those that are newer, the Law of First Mention is, as a general rule, the first time a word shows up in scripture, that will define the word for the rest of the Bible or at least give you context for that word for the rest of the Bible. That's why we call it the Law of First Mention. It is one of the most important and helpful study tools you'll ever get a hold of. If you want to know something about love, look up the first time the word love shows up in the Bible. First time the word worship shows up in the Bible. Okay, I'm going to show you the first time that the word 13 shows up in the Bible. Genesis 14, and look at verse 4. It says, 12 years they served Chedda Peshba. And in the 13th year, what did they do? They rebelled. Do you know what 13 is? It's your number of rebellion. Isn't that about the time the kids start to rebel? You adults? You parents in here? All right, let me show you another one. Look at Ezra. I've shown you this one before, so I won't take a lot of time with it. But look at Ezra. That's right after 2 Chronicles. That probably doesn't help some of you. It's right before Nehemiah. Hopefully that helps you. Ezra 2, and I want you to look at verse 13. It's 13 again. And that thing goes and goes, man. I won't go through all of them tonight. It's just too much. Ezra 2. Make sure everyone's there, because I want you to see it. Ezra 2, look at verse 13. Ezra 2, look at verse 13. I'm sure it's a coincidence, amen? It's 13. It says, the children of Adonacam, 660 and 6. Now, you know what's going on in Ezra chapter 2? It's just numbering a bunch of people. The rest of the chapter is pretty boring, kind of lame. And the Lord just kind of sneaks it in there. Thirteen. Thirteen, and it has six, six, six in it. And wouldn't you know it, Adonacam means Lord of Rebellion. What do you do with that? It's supernatural is what it is. Look at, I'm trying to think of another one, look at Malachi. This is where you start feeling like maybe you're stretching a little, but I don't know. King James Bible, amen, just keeps going. Look at Malachi, that's right before Matthew. So Ezra 2.13 had 666 and it was the Lord of Rebellion, there it is again. And the Antichrist will be the Lord of Rebellion, we know that, amen. Malachi and verse 6, Malachi 4, excuse me. Last chapter in the Old Testament, right before Matthew, Malachi 4 and verse 6. It says, It says, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Now you say, well, there's no 13s here. You know what Malachi is? It's your last book in the Old Testament. The Old Testament ends with the word what? It's a curse. You know what 39 is? It's 13 times 3. I don't know if that's anything, but I wonder. It just happens to be one of those. 3 times 13 is 39. The close out of the Old Testament is not a blessing. Why? Christ hasn't come yet. So the earth is still cursed. You have a curse show up in Genesis chapter 3, man. And that curse keeps going. And that curse is not fixed at the end of the Old Testament. Things are as bad as ever. And there's a curse, that 13. You know what Genesis 13, 13 says? It says the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners exceedingly. There's your first time wicked and the first time sinner shows up and you got sodomy showing up. 13, 13. Over and over again. Judas Iscariot. There's your son of perdition. That's Judas Iscariot. That's 13 letters. I'm sure it's a coincidence. It shows up again and again and again. And then what you have is you come to Revelation 13. You want to know how many times dragon shows up in the book of Revelation? 13 times, it'd be really funny if I was like, 16. 13, yes, like 13. Well, that's the number. In fact, it's an interesting thing. You have the 12 disciples and then you have Jesus Christ. Well, Jesus Christ was doing right along with the other 11. So Judas would have been the 13th, not Jesus. He would have been there. So you find the phrase one, of the 12, 1 of the 12, 1 plus 12 is 13, over and over and over again, that thing shows up. So as we get into what you're going to find, and I'm not going to, this will take, I'll have to wait until next week, but that number 13 shows up, pay attention to it. You can go to Leviticus 13.13, you can go to John 13.13, and you can find them. I'm pretty sure Proverbs 13.13 is well off, but I could be wrong. But you'll find it again and again and again. What's the Lord showing you? He's actually showing you two things, and I'll close with this. One, He's showing you to pay attention to that number 13, and that there's something going on there, and the Lord's trying to get you to pay attention to it. But it's also kind of a sneaky way for the Lord to prove the inerrancy of the King James Bible. You guys, I've taught some of you this before, but the Geneva Bible was the precursor to the King James, came out in the late 1500s, and here this is 1611. The Geneva Bible was the very first Bible to have the chapter and verse markings, and then the King James improved upon it. And so there weren't chapters and verse markings. The way it used to be is literally those old things would be in a scroll. And they would just start the book, and they would just go beginning to end, just like that. And you think about how hard it would be for us to study. How many verses have we gone to tonight? How would you find John 5, 28, and 29? You wouldn't. I'd be like, it's in the first quarter of John. It'd be hard to find, wouldn't it? But you can turn to Genesis 13, 13 and you can go, oh, you know what that is? The Lord's showing you the supernatural nature of that book right there in front of you. He's got his blessing on a King James Bible on a translation, amen? You got it. All right, any questions about any of that? Anybody? We good? All right. Father, we thank you for your words, and God, I thank you, Lord, that we can trust them. It's a real blessing, Lord, to be able to just trust in your words and be able to lean on them, Father. We thank you, Lord, for salvation, Father. We thank you, Lord, for all these folks that are here, Lord. It's a blessing. I love you, Lord. I pray all this in your son's name. Amen.