Conference: 2001
Table of Contents
Address
Gospel
Genesis 2 & 3
Gospel—C. Hendricks
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Our God and Father, we thank Thee again for Thy precious word, and as we continue this subject, we ask thy health and thy guidance and thy blessing. We commend the meeting to Thee in Jesus precious name. Amen.
Turn again with me to Genesis 2.
There's four.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every year of the field before it grew. For the Lord God had not caused it to reign upon the earth. And there was not a man to till the ground. But they went up amiss from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, And there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord glad to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the truth of the knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and he came into foreheads. The name of the first is Caisson, that is it which compasseth the whole land of have a lot. Where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good, there is Dalian and the Onyx stone, And the name of the second river is Guy on the same as it that composites the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hittico, that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the 4th river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him, and help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord cloud formed every beast of the field and every fall of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to our cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found in help.
Need for him.
And the Lord God plows the deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs.
And closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the wood which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be 1 flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yell, Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman sent up to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die.
Well, God does know that in the day he eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God's knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit there out, and did eat, and gave also run to her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed thick leaves together and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
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And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself. And he said, Who told me that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, where I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat? And Bernard said, the woman whom thou gave us to be with me. She gave me of the tree, And I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that I has done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me.
And I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above our cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon my belly shall thou go and dust shall thou we go the gaze of thy life, and I will put empathy between thee and the woman in between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel unto the woman. He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, my conception. In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
But unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Curse it is the ground, for thy sake, and sorrow shalt thou eateth it. All the days of thy life long voucher and Thistle shall it bring forth to thee, And thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it must have taken for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also unto his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothes them. And the Lord God said, Behold, a man has become as one of us to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and take hold of the tree of life, take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. Wherefore the Lord God did a set him, set him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims.
And a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the wave of the Tree of Life.
We have details in chapter 2 and the Fallen Chapter 3.
That we didn't get in chapter one.
The details.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, and they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew from the Lord. God had not caused it to reign upon the earth. It was not a man to till the ground.
They went up the mist from the earth and water, the whole face of the ground. So in this condition of innocence.
Before the sin had come in. This is the state of things described here.
Then we have the details on how he created man and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils to the breath of life. A man became a living soul.
A never dying soul.
Soul which lives and goes on forever.
That's what makes it so solemn.
That man creature creature God created in his image and likeness.
Created by the in breathing of God.
There's only two times in scripture that you get God breathing into man's.
Bath or nostrils, here and in John 20.
When the risen Christ breathed into His disciples the breath of His resurrection life.
Wonderful.
And gave them eternal life.
Well, here we have natural light communicated to the first man breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a never dying soul.
Heard a man speak in his foolishness. My while those six feet under. And that's the end of me. You know it's not.
It is a part of that a man wants to die and after this the judgment.
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Death is not the end. Death is the beginning for man of eternity.
He's living in time now, when time ends for us.
Eternity will begin either be in the presence of the Lord forever or in the dungeons of the damned forever.
Terrible thing to think of.
But that's what the Word of God tells us.
And then the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Now Eve wasn't created yet.
And out of the ground may the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into foreheads.
Must have been the most beautiful place imaginable, the Garden of Eden.
Prepared of God, man was placed in it. Attend it, take care of it.
And then the rivers, of course, that float.
Algebra.
River went out of Eden to honor the garden and it was parted into four heads. Name of the first is Python, that is it, which compasseth the whole land in Havalo where there is gold, the gold of that land is good, there's Deliam and the Onyx stone, name of the second river is Gothan. We don't know where they're located, but the next two we do.
It says the same as it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Well, that identifies somewhat.
And then the third river is Hiticle, or the Tigris. We know it as the Tigris River, not as if which goes toward the east of Assyria. The 4th river is Euphrates, and if you know anything about geography, you know that the Tigris and the Euphrates come together that are close together.
Tiger smoke to Nineveh and you phrase.
Through Babylon, I believe.
So that somewhat identifies the location of Eden.
Garden delights.
Wonderful place. Paradise on earth. That's what it was.
And the Lord God took the man, and he put him into the Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
The Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden Thou mayest freely eat.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it.
Or in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
Gave him the whole run of the garden. Everything that was in the garden, he could eat. There was no evil fruit there. There was no evil there. Remember when he finished the creation? He said God saw that it was very good. Everything was good. There was nothing evil about the fruit of that one tree that was forbidden to Adam. Why was it forbidden to put him on the ground of responsibility as a creature to obey his creator? That's why it was given to Adam.
You can have the whole run of the garden. You can use any tree, but not that one.
Tree, it's called a tree of the knowledge of good and evil lies at Carl that because by eating it, man acquired A conscience to know good and evil. He knows this is bad and this is not and that's that's that conscience that man has tells him there's some things that are bad and some things that are good, using that ability to discern between right and wrong.
Man has a conscience.
Now we know that the conscience can be defiled and.
Not be a good guy, but the conscience enlightened by the word of God is what we have.
As a good guide today.
The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
That was what God said to Adam.
One tree forbidden him.
Just one. The second man, the last atom. He had him before us in our readings. He was in the midst of all kinds of evil on every hand round about him. Never once.
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God forbid the very thought that he could have.
Took and partook of something that was not pleasing to the Father. Everything he did was the joy and the life of the Father. The Father has not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him. That was the 2nd man, the last Adam, our blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But the first man had everything that was good. Everything that was delicious and delightful to look upon. Only one restriction. Just one.
And we know what happened. We come to that in the next chapter. Certainly it was. I kind of likened this to to what David did.
He had wounds in abundance. He was the king.
Anything that he wanted.
But he took someone else's way.
What was someone else's? He lusted. He murdered.
And.
He was dealt with severely because of that, well, Adam, Adam and Eve. Eve isn't created yet, but Adam is told this can have the whole fruit of the garden.
It's all good. Don't eat of that one tree.
That's one tree.
Through the knowledge of good and evil.
The day that we is thereof, thou shalt surely die.
That was a positive command from God and a positive learning from God.
The command not to and a warning what would happen if he did?
It's OK. And it was just this one act of disobedience that we read out in the next chapter that brought in all the misery and the sorrow and the suffering that we see around about us today.
By one man's disobedience sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for I'll have sinned.
One man's disobedience, you think, children?
That.
I thought I was told not to take any cookie from the cookie jar. I'm just going to take one.
Let's go take one.
Just want to see if it tastes good.
And that's disobedience, and that's what brought in sin for the whole human race.
Such a small thing, we would say, but disobedience is never a small thing.
Disobedience brings the hand of God's government in judgment upon us.
And then he says in verse 18.
The Lord God had said it says in verse nine out of the ground. But the Lord God made to grow every tree and so on and.
Well, I guess it's not.
Yes, it is in verse 19.
Let me pass verse 18 a minute. Verse 19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see when he would carve them, And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Adam gave names to our cattle to follow the air, every beast of the field. But for Adam that was not found in hell made for him. Now let me read verse 18. And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him unhappy or suitable or fit for him.
And then the animals are all brought. He looks them over and gives them names.
But no, they wouldn't satisfy his his heart.
And he gives them names.
But for Adam there was not found in hell and helper that was suitable for him. He needed someone that was.
Like him, that he could relate to, that could understand him, to share his thoughts with him whom he could love.
And.
None of the animals satisfied that.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep, verse 21 to file upon Adam and he slept.
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And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. Now he was he was made out of the dust of the ground, the atom. The animals were made out of the dust of the ground.
She wasn't.
She was not made out of the dust of the ground.
God caused Adam to sleep and he performed the first operation on Adam and took a rib and he made a woman.
She was made from him, I used to wonder.
In reading Ephesians 5, whether he's talking about, he's talking about the marriage relationship there and the husband should love his wife and the wife should obey her husband and and then it says we are of destruction of his bones.
And what you talking about the one body or the marriage relationship? Well, the first marriage relationship, she was made from his body and this is the only type in all of scripture that we have that truth portrayed in tight.
That she was not only his wife, but she was himself.
And it says that in Ephesians 5 that he that loveth himself, loveth his wife, loveth himself.
She's part of him. She's one with him, of his flesh and of his bones, so to speak. The very first life, the very first woman that was created was made, came from her husband's side, Adam.
And his deep sleep, of course, is a picture of Christ going into death for us. You can type. And then from his death the church was formed, and she's pardoned him. This is now born with my bones and flesh of my flesh. When Saul was asked the question by the risen Lord, Saul saw, why persecutest thou me? That's not my brethren, but me. He was his. He was one with him.
And he was hurt. That's the wonderful truth that we see figured here in this beautiful type of the first created man and woman.
All it says in the first chapters is verse 27. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he a male and female created he them. So the female as far as well as the male is is man. Adam is the generic term for humanity, whether feeling it male or female.
And it takes the two of them to continue the race, propagate the race.
Verse 21 Again and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.
And he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the wood which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and broth were unto the man.
When he created Adam, then he created Eve from Adam. That was the most perfect human pair that's ever walked this earth. No sin. No tainted sin created in a state of innocence. No knowledge of sin.
Perfect as God created them, they must have been absolutely beautiful. The man Adam and the woman Eve.
He brought her to the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my boss, and flesh of my flesh she.
You should be called woman.
Because she was taken out of man.
From that part of that.
She compliments him.
She fulfills him.
And without him, without her, he is not complete. There is a sense in which.
Without the Church, the Lord Jesus is now complete.
As to his own impeccable person, yes, he's complete. But as man he needs a bride just like Adam did, and so we're part of that, which makes him complete.
Of precious.
Old woman because she was taken out of man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother.
And shall cleave unto his wife.
They should be 1 flesh.
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That's the marriage union that's referred to there. There were one flash in creation, She was created from Adam and one flash in marital union.
They were both naked and the man and his wife and were not ashamed so.
Had not entered. There was number consciousness of sin, or right or wrong. Everything was very good. There was no wrong, there was no evil.
But now we read something quite different in chapter 3.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.
Is this serpent identified elsewhere? Yes, if you turn to Revelation chapter 12.
We'll see that he is identified as to who he really is.
Revelation Chapter 12.
There are seven There was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not. Neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out that all old serpent called the devil. And Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth.
And his angels were cast out with him. Now that's still future.
But it identifies in the very last book of this book of this.
Bible of Ours, the last Book of Revelation, identifies that personage with the one that enters the Garden here to spoil and to destroy this beautiful creation of Adam and Eve.
Now back to Genesis 3 verse one. Now the serpent was more subtle.
And any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman.
So I believe that this proves that the power of Satan had already taken place.
If my thought expressed this afternoon that verse 2 describes the ruined and wasted desolate condition of this world, and as a result of Satan's fall, we know that he was fallen. Now he enters the garden as a serpent. Evidently the serpent was a beautiful creature At this time. I believe he walked in upright. I'll tell you that why in a moment.
And he said unto the woman.
No. Had God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Now the woman wasn't created yet when God said that to Adam, so she had to have learned it from Adam. This is what he told me. And now he appeals to her, and says, You, have God said, God said, he shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Now she wasn't there when he said that, and God said that to Adam, and so she asked something.
And she asked, Neither shall ye touch it, lest she die.
And then the serpent who's a liar and a destroyer.
The very the very epitome of evil.
The whole world lies in wickedness or in the wicked one.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. He directly contradicts the word of God.
He shall not surely die.
For God, let's know that in the day ye eat thereof thou then your eyes shall be opened. He shall be as gods, or as gods, knowing good and evil.
Yes, God knows that his subtlety and his lies mixed in with partial truth.
And that's how he becomes so effective in deceiving man that he mixes.
Lies and error.
You shall not surely die. That's a lie.
For God does know that in the day he eats thereof, then your eyes shall be opened.
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And he shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
Yes, they were no good and evil. Now they'd have a conscience. They would eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And so they would know good and evil. And they know how to distinguish this is good and this is evil. But they wouldn't have the power and even tell them that you wouldn't have the power to choose the good and refuse the evil.
They'd be in ******* to the evil.
And unable to choose the good.
And when the woman saw.
That the tree was good for food.
Where was Adam?
He was right there.
Right there. She should have stepped back.
Is my husband. You talk to him.
Or he should have since stepped back. I'll handle this.
But neither one of those things happened.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise good for food, would satisfy the body.
Pleasant to the eyes, soul three, to be desired to make one wise spirit.
She took of the fruit thereof, did eat, and gave also under her husband's with her, with her. There he was. He was right there.
Her husband was with her and he didn't stop it.
And he did it.
He entered into it with her.
And so the New Testament says, by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin and death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Adam was the head. He was the responsible run of that marital pair, not the woman, but the man.
He was created first, he was made ahead of it, and if she was brought alone to be a helper to him in his role of headship and rule of everything that was placed under their authority, his especially.
So they both ate.
And the eyes of them both were opened. Verse 7.
And they knew that they were naked.
Had a conscience now?
They had the sense that we should be closed.
And they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
A man has been doing that through the centuries, sowing his pig leaves, trying to cover his nakedness.
And God sees right through it.
They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the glove, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord.
God amongst the trees of the garden added that conscience followed this foul they didn't have one, but now they have a conscience that tells them they have sinned and disobeyed love.
Below God called them to Adam, and said unto him.
Where art thou?
Across the Lord knew where he was, but the question was put so as to.
Awaken the conscience in Adam of where he had fallen. The next question that's asked later in the book of Genesis what passed out done.
We usually put the water style down 1St and then where am I second? But the more important question is where is man? Where is man in his in his unregenerate state?
He's found he has a bad conscience. He's hiding himself from the God he knows what he cannot stand in the presence of because he's disobeyed him.
I heard that grace in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself and he said. Who told me that I was naked?
That's why we eat with the tree whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat. And the man said the woman whom thou gave us to be with me. She gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
I don't know if he's blaming the woman here or God who gave him the woman, but anyway, he's passing the bucket to someone else.
And that's the common attitude of man who's fallen into sin.
The man said The woman whom thou gave us to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. You could read it. The woman whom thou gave us to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat, surpass, or could be the woman whom thou gave us to be with me. She gave me the tree in Idd. It's your father.
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That has been doing that ever since the Garden of Eden.
And the Lord of God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done? She'd more honest, a more upright in her answer, than he. And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I reviewed his plain disease.
And the road brought up into the serpent. Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above thou cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shall thou go. That's the reason I said. I thought he wrapped uprightly when he came into the garden. And as a result of the curse that fell on on the serpent, he's been eating the dust of the ground ever since.
Curse about thou above all cattle, above every beast of the field upon my belly shall thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of my life.
So Satan attacked of our first earthly father and mother, our first parents. He attacked the weaker vessel, the woman.
It was man's thought.
And he has to bear the judgment. But now notice what God says to the serpent.
I will put enmity verse 15 between thee speaking to the serpent, between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.
It the woman's seed shall bruise of a better translation is shall crush thy head.
Thou shalt crush his heel. When did that happen? That happened at the cross.
When Satan, apparently victorious, got the crowd so stirred up in hatred against that blessed man that they put him to the cross and they said crucify him, crucify him.
He crushed the Savior's heel, but during that moment.
His head was crushed and he was destroyed in his power. Satan has been defeated.
And if you're still on Satans side, you're on the wrong side.
On the side of the defeated one, the Lord is the mighty victor. I all but seem deceit. He won the median crown.
Tried all our foes beneath his feet by being trodden down.
The last crowd, the Lord uttered with a loud voice, the first cry with a loud voices. My God, my God, why thou forsaken me? And the last crowd with a loud voice was it is finished, He cried. The work necessary to save your precious soul is finished, and by receiving him who destroyed the power of Satan.
The true death he destroyed him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and delivered us who to fear of death were in our lifetime subject to *******. Satan's defeat was at the cross. He used the woman to introduce sin into this earthly family and Satan and Christ. God uses Christ the seed of the woman to destroy Satan's power.
And so the women that Satan attacked is the very one that God uses.
Satan, the seed of the woman.
I will put on the teeth between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall go thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel. And remember, there's enmity between Satan seed and the woman seed. Those that belong to the to, to the woman which is identified with Christ. They are the Lords, and there's empathy between the two.
Under the woman he said, Our greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shall bring forth children, and thy desires shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hath eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee same, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed, It is the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shalt thou eat it in all the days of thy life.
Thus also in thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field. The sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.
Wherever did wast thou taken? For dost thou art and unto dust shall thou return? Now that's only man's body that returns to the dust. His soul and spirit live on, and will receive a resurrection body, as we had before us at conference.
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And the complete in glory without sin any longer.
And Adam Carlos, wife's name E which means life.
Because she was the mother of all living.
Other Adam also, and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothe them. He's given us suitable dress. Christ is our righteousness, and we're clothed in a robe of righteousness and we stand before God in Christ. If you're saved, that's true of you, and that's figured here by the coats of skins. One had to die in order to provide those skins. The fig leaf apron didn't involve any gap, but this does.
The Lord God said, Behold a man as become as one of us. There's the whole Trinity again conferring among themselves after the fall, before the Fowlers. Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness. And now he says, Behold, a man has become as one of us.
In our God and evil He had a conscience now and now lest he put forth his hand and take out so of the tree of life, and eat and live forever in a in a sinful state. God says no, that would not. I would not allow that.
God is too good to allow man to live forever in a state of sin. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence it was he was taken. So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherry bims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life. The tree of life. Christ said, I am the resurrection and the light. He didn't believe it. On me shall never die. He did die, Liveth and believeth in me shall.
Never got it either. Diet shall live again and so on.
He's the light man. We shut out of it on the ground with his own responsibility to obey the commandment of God.
Now God is coming, Grace.
The person of our Lord Jesus.
And he gives us life and forgiveness.
And all these hours in him the 2nd man.
I said Christ. So when we had before us at the conference, the first man has failed.
Natural Mass is failed as a spiritual man. Christ the glory. We're going to meet him there soon. Are you saved?
Are you going to be with them? Are you going to be identified with this first man that was driven out from the presence of the Lord?
The second man has come, and he might go into the presence of the Lord and remain there forever. Let's thank him for his word, our God and our Father. We thank thee for thy precious word. We thank thee for the Lord Jesus.
Who went into death for us and has given us eternal life and has forgiven all our sins.
We think of how the first parents were deceived. She was.
And he took with his wife my forbidden fruit.
And brought this.
Earthly creation into a state of sin.
First man fail, the 2nd man Last Adam has come to deliver us from the consequences of Adam's fall, and bring us into the joy and blessedness of life, eternal with himself above, without sin.
To give the thanks for him our Lord Jesus Christ in his precious name.
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I may cry.
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Seven Times Joseph Wept
Address—D. Mearns
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Could you turn with me to Acts Chapter 7? Acts Chapter 7?
Just to introduce what I have in my heart.
As Stephen tells this story and he says in verse 9, the patriarchs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt.
But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, And he made him, made him governor over Egypt, and all his house. Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.
When Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers 1St. And the second time Joseph was made known unto his brethren, and Joseph kindred was made known unto Pharaoh, then sent Joseph and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred 3 score and 15 souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt and died. He and our fathers were carried over into psych him and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham brought thought for a sum of money of the sons of Emor.
Father of Psychom. When the time of the promised June I which got born to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt.
Until another king arose which knew not Joseph.
Two phrases in this portion, the ninth verse. But God was with him.
And the end of the 11 verse. Our fathers found no sustenance. Now turn with me to the Psalms, Psalm 100 and 505th Psalm, and the 16th verse. Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land, and he break the whole stop of bread. And he sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant whose feet they hurt with fetters. He was laid in iron until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the people.
Go free, He made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, to bind his Princess at his pleasure.
And to teach his senators wisdom.
I have in my heart this afternoon.
To look in the book of Genesis at 7 times that Joseph weeps, 7 times that Joseph weeps, it's been a touching subject to my own heart.
I don't know if there's any of us here who haven't been touched by the story of Joseph. I've never taken enough in this setting, but I thought we might look at those seven times that Joseph weeps. Let's turn back now to Genesis. The first time that we find it is in Genesis chapter 42, just to.
Touch a little onto the history that went before this. We all know the story well, so we don't have to read the verses, but we know that.
Joseph at 17 years old.
We find him.
And he goes to seek his brethren in the 37th chapter.
And we find that his brethren, they hated him with other cause.
And they take Joseph, and they throw him in the pit.
And as we mentioned this morning, they afterwards they took a kid of the goats.
And they slew it. They dipped the coat in the blood, and they went to their father and they fabricated this story and they said, is this your son's coat? Yes.
This.
Was Joseph's coat.
And.
They deceive their father.
What a horrible thing it was for Jacob to go through that thought process.
As later on in his life, he reflected on this situation, I'm sure he thought that's just been like me and the deception of my own heart.
And we find that Joseph is taken to Egypt.
And as we read the account in Acts, we find that Stephen says that God.
Was with Joseph.
And everything that Joseph put his hand to.
Umm, just worked marvelously.
But if I looked at it and everything he put into Joseph hand, he did in such a marvelous way that pretty soon Joseph was over all his head.
And then that situation comes.
With his wife.
And it would have been such a discouragement to.
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To Joseph to go through that trial and to be taken and thrown into prison.
Wrongfully.
But then to.
To win the prison, to do everything with the Lord.
So that pretty soon everything in prison was given into his hand because he'd done it. He did it so well.
The Lord was with him.
We find that.
He's taken out of prison after.
The dreams of the Butler and the Baker, which we may touch on a little later. And then the dreams of Pharaoh. And then finally Joseph is exalted in Egypt as Lord over all the land. Only Pharaoh was above him.
And here in this chapter it says.
Let's turn the few verses in the 40 the last verses of the 41St chapter, the 53rd verse.
And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended.
And the seven years of birth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the dearth was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph, what he saith to you do. And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold under the Egyptians. And the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn, because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, Get you down thither, and buy for us from fence, that we may live and not die. And Joseph's 10 brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother Jacob sent not with his brother. And he said, lest her adventurer mischief befall him.
The sons of Israel came to buy corn. Among those that came for the famine was in the land of Canaan, and Joseph was the governor of the land.
And here it was that sold to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him, with their faces to the earth. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them.
What a moment in the history of Joseph. What a moment. Here he is, 21 long years after he was taken out of that pit and he last laid his eyes on his brother, and a little bit longer than that since he has seen his father.
And in Joseph's wisdom.
He has been set over all the land of Egypt, and he has worked diligently to gather in corn.
And he knows that the famine is not just in the land of Egypt, but it's throughout the land.
And the people from other lands are coming to buy corn and all. How he must have watched those lines. How much he would have watched those lines so carefully. And at last he looks. And Joseph saw his brethren. What a moment, 21 years.
And he knew them, but he made himself strange unto them, and speak roughly to them, and said unto them, Whence come ye?
And they said from the land of Canaan to buy food.
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies.
To see the nakedness of the land, ye are come. And they said unto him, Name my Lord, but to buy food of thy servants, come.
We are all one man's sons. We are true men. My servants are no spies. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land here come. And they said, Thy servants are 12 brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. Behold, the youngest is this day with our father. Oh, what a moment this was for him, to hear that his younger brother, whom he didn't see, there was a lie.
And he says, The youngest is this day with our father. The one is not, ah, not only is his younger brother alive, but his daddy's alive. Go through the thought process here after so many years. What a wonderful thing this was for Joseph as he first lays eyes on his brother. The old youngest is this day with our father, one is not. And Joseph said unto them, This is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies. Hereby shall ye be proved by the life of Pharaoh.
Ye shall not go forth hence except your youngest brother. Come, hit her, send one of you and let him fetch your brother.
He shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you or else, by the life of Pharaoh. Surely ye are spies. And he put them all together in ward 3 days. And Joseph said unto them the third day.
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Now here's a test for the brothers.
Joseph has proved for these 21 years that the Lord was sufficient.
Free soul. And so he tests his brethren.
Because never once up to this point in the Word of God.
Do we ever read any thought or word of any of the brothers?
In connection with the Lord, never once 37th chapter is taken up with the brothers. Joseph brings the evil report of the two concubines to his father Jacob. There's no mention of God.
The 34th chapter, you go through the whole chapter, it's devoted to Simeon and Levi and all the transpires there in connection with Shechem. And as Jacob could March away from Shechem in the 35th chapter, he says to his boys, you have made me distinct.
Among the inhabitants of the land, no mention of God whatsoever.
From any of the 10 brothers, Never once.
A whole chapter devoted the 38th chapter to Judah, not one mentioned whatsoever.
Of the word God coming from Judas mouth.
That whole chapter, never once do we have recorded that there's been any tenderness toward the Lord.
That Joseph has ever heard from his ten brothers. And so he says here Joseph said unto them in the third day, this do and live, for I fear God. What a strange thing for those boys to hear in the land of Egypt, those words, I fear God, a godless nation. And here they come. They've heard that from their father, but they come all this way, and they stand before the Lord of Egypt, and they hear a man say, I fear God.
Strange words.
To here in the land of Egypt.
This do and live, for I fear God if He be true. Men, let one of your brethren be bound.
House of your prison and go ye carry corn for the family of your houses, and bring our youngest.
Your youngest brother unto me, so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so, and they said one to another. I believe it's these next 3 verses.
That cause Joseph to weep for the first time.
And I said one to another, we are verily concerning our brother. Notice you can just picture Joseph listening. He's been speaking through an interpreter, but he understands fully and so he's lifting very closely to hear after just having said, I fear God as to what they're going to have to say.
We are very guilty concerning our brethren, that we saw the anguish of his soul when He besought us. He knows that they're speaking about him, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress come upon us. And Ruben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child, and you would not hear. Therefore be held also His blood is required. And they knew not that Joseph understood them, for he spake unto them by an interpreter, and he turned himself about from them, and wept.
You know.
To have gone through those years.
Of such extremity in his own soul, and to realize the sufficiency of God year after year, trial after trial, you know we read no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous, but afterward it worketh the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby. And Joseph, Joseph had proved that.
And now he listens.
And you know, the first thing he hears is they bring up that situation.
Which is on their, on their conscience, the guilt of it, and to realize that there's no owning of the claims of God on their hearts. Oh, what a blow it would have been such joy to his heart to realize that his younger brother was alive. And such joy to realize that they were alive and that his father Jacob was alive. But he sees no evidence whatsoever.
That there was a working of God in their hearts.
And turns from them and he weeps. Oh, what a moment this was.
In Joseph's life.
Joseph commands to fill their sacks with corn, to restore every man his money into a sack, and to give them provision for the way. And thus he did. He laid their ***** with corn departed fence.
You know the first awakening we find of these boys is in the next few verses when it says in the 27th verse one of them opened his sack to give his *** provender in the end and he aspired his money.
For behold, it was in the sacks mouth. And he said unto his brother, My money is returned, and lo, it is even my sack. And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? First time ever recorded any tenderness, any owning that God was in the picture.
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And it's in connection with their guilt. And they say, what is this that God has done unto us? But it's not said to anybody else. It's only said to themselves. Now let's go.
Umm.
Let's continue on 29th verse. And they came to Jacob their father into the land of Canaan and told them all that befell them, saying the man who is Lord of the landscape roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. And we thought them we are true men. We are no spies. We'd be 12 brethren, sons of our father. One is not. And the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the Lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you are true men. Leave one of your brethren.
Here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone, and bring your youngest brother unto me. Then shall I know that you are no surprise but to your true men. So I deliver you your brother, that ye shall traffic in the land. And it came to pass, as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. And Jacob their father sent unto them. Ye me have bereaved of my children. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you'll take Benjamin away, and all these things are against me.
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to be.
Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he is left alone. If mischief shall be fallen by the way in which he go, then shall ye bring down my Gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Now I want to go to the 43rd chapter now and.
We'll start from the 26th verse. It's pretty hard to go through this story without reading the whole story, but we don't have the time.
So we're going to, we're going to start from the 26th verse here. It says when Joseph came home, they brought him the present, which was in their hand in the house, and they bowed themselves to the earth. And he asked them of their welfare and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom he spake, is he yet alive? And they answered by serving, Our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance. And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son.
And said, Is this your younger brother, of whom he spake unto me?
Such a question he should ask.
And he said, God, be gracious unto thee, my son.
And Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother, and he sought where to weep, and he entered into his chamber, and he wept there, you know.
Joseph weeps here.
And there's a particular reason why he's found weeping here.
Because he lays his eyes on his younger brother, Benjamin.
And we've all heard time and time again of how Joseph set the same scene as he did it as there was a dolphin where there was a father, there was ten brothers and there was a boy. And the boy was cast into the pit. And the brothers, they couldn't care less about their father and they couldn't care less about their younger brother.
And so in a sense, Joseph, he lays the same scene. He's wanting to see if there was an appreciation for Jacob, their father.
And an appreciation for their younger brother, Benjamin.
But the reason why Joseph weeps here is because.
Joseph.
Set an extreme test.
For his father, Jacob.
And when he laid eyes.
On his brother Benjamin.
He knew.
What it had cost Jacob.
For Joseph to be able to lay eyes on his younger brother Benjamin, what a tremendous cost.
That was for Jacob.
And Jacob, in his matchless wisdom, he knew the conniving of his father's heart.
He knew as a younger brother that that he was the favorite and that had no place in a family of the people of God. He knew that.
And when he saw his ten brothers earlier, as we read about and he saw that Benjamin wasn't there, he knew that there was still that situation in his father's heart, that is, that the Lord had to deal with. And so he says to his brother, you're not going to see my face again unless I see your younger brother. And that was for the express purpose of Jacob.
You know, if we go back now, in this portion, we read about Reuben and how Reuben said to Jacob, you know, I'll take the boy with me. And incidentally, the boy had at least eight children and probably 10.
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At this time, Benjamin.
Had at least eight children and likely 10. And Reuben says to Jacob, his father, Send the boy with me, and if I don't bring him back to me, you can slay my two sons. And what kind of a comfort would that have been to a grandfather to have his two sonsling none whatsoever.
But we find Judah spake in the third verse of the 43rd chapter. And Judah spake unto him. The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, He shall not see my face, except for your brother be with you. And the ninth verse he says, I will be surety for him. My hand shalt thou require of him. I will bring him not. If I bring him not unto thee. Then set him, and set him before thee. Then let me bear the blame forever. Except we lingered. Surely now we have returned the second time.
And so now here we find in the 11Th verse, this is the test that.
Joseph and his wisdom was putting his dad through.
And so he says so here in the 11Th verse. It says their father said unto them, if it must be so now do this. Take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels. They didn't want to hear about taking any best fruits and carry the man down a present. They didn't want to hear about carrying the man down a present. Take a little bomb, take a little honey. They didn't want to hear about that. They knew that that wasn't going to do the trick.
Spices and myrrh and nuts and almonds. Dad, that's not going to work. That's not what the man wants. And take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks carried again in your hand. Peradventure was an oversight. You know, you could just see the boys just.
Shaking their heads and thinking that's not going to work, that that's not what they want. And then the time in Jacob's life where we find that Jacob comes to the bottom and that's what the Lord's desire is for every one of us, that we would come to the end of ourselves.
The time in Jacob's life where that happens is right here in this chapter. And we find that in the 14th verse, the 13th verse, he says, take also your brother and arise and go unto the man. You know, the boys, the men that could probably hardly believe their ears, because they know how much Joseph had meant to Jacob, and now they know how much Benjamin meant to Jacob, and they knew what was on the line here and to hear.
Say these words.
Take your brother and arise and go unto the man and then to see this next phrase. Oh such a such a comfort to my heart and God Almighty give you mercy before the man. Jacob comes to the point in his life where he realizes he can't do anything anymore about conniving to get his own way and his own will. And he says, God Almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your brother and Benjamin, if I.
That my children, I am bereaved. You know, we had brought before us this morning, Neil mentioned Jacob leaning upon the top of his staff, worshipping. We find that in Hebrews 11, we find here in this portion that Jacob finally comes to that point.
Where the arm of the flesh is not going to work here, it seems to have worked in every other time in Jacob's life. You know, it didn't matter what he did, what he put his hand to, if he could work the angles a little bit.
He would try and we see that, we see that history all the way up to this point and we find that there's 21 years, there's 2021 years. That's veiled from us as to what the Lord has wrought with Jacob. When we come to this portion, we realize that there's still that situation and he comes to this point finally and he says.
Take Benjamin and he says God Almighty give you mercy before the man.
And when Joseph lays eyes on his ten brothers again, he's looking, imagine looking the lines over and justice wondering when those boys are going to show up. And at last they show up and there's not ten of them. There's eleven. Oh, what this meant to his soul. And, and to look at his at his younger brother Benjamin. And it says, and he entered into his chamber and he wept there. He knew what it had cost his father. He knew the tremendous cost that it had been.
To Jacob to let Benjamin go down.
To Egypt. And he washed his face, and went out and refrained himself, and said, set on bread the last verse of that chapter. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him. Now he used Benjamin as a test for his father. Now he uses Benjamin as a test for the brothers. And he took and sent messes under them from before him. And Benjamin's mess was five times as much as any of the others. I wanted to do that. He knew that the brothers were jealous of him, because Jacob loved him more than the brothers.
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And he knew that that was the same case with Benjamin. And he wants to see if that jealousy is still there. So he's just going to add, as the world would say, insult to injury. He knows that that that happens in the next, in the next chapter. The sacks are filled with food. The silver cup is very carefully taken and put into Benjamin's sack. And away they go. And as soon as they're gone, it says, And Joseph said unto the steward in the fourth verse, up follow after the man. And when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, wherefore have you rewarded evil for good?
Is not this that is in it which my Lord drinketh, and whereby indeed He divineth? Ye have done evil in so doing. The sixth verse. He overtook them, and spake unto them these same words. And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my Lord, these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing. Now this is the first recording now of them mentioning anything of the Lord outside of themselves, and it goes to the stewards here. I'm sure that was passed on to Joseph. It's veiled from us as to what what is said.
But we find there.
That they each open their sacks, they go through all the stacks, they come to the youngest and they open his sack Benjamin. And lo and behold, the 12Th verse. He searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamins sack. Then they rent their clothes and laid it every man his *** and returned to the city.
And Judah's brethren came to Joseph's house, and he was yet there, and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that she have done? What she not that such a man as I can certainly divine? And Judah said, What shall we say unto my Lord? What shall we speak, or how shall we clear ourselves now?
In the 45th chapter and the 1St 2 verses it says, And Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him. And he cried, 'cause every man to grow out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud. Now the reason he weeps aloud in the 45th chapter is because of what he hears in the speech of Judah. And so we go back to the.
The 16th verse. And Judah said, What shall we say unto my Lord? What shall we speak, or how shall we clear ourselves? God, I found out the iniquity of thy servants. Oh, that was music.
To Joseph Sears, to seeing his brethren a repentant heart. Oh how that would have touched Josephs heart. To know the history of his brethren. To know the history of Simeon Levi, to know the history of Judah, who is now the spokesman.
And to hear these words, God have found out the iniquity of our servants. Behold, we are thy Lord servants, both we and He also with whom the cup is found.
And he said, God forbid that I should do so. Notice thou again the wisdom of Joseph. I'm not going to keep you all servants, but the man in whose hand the cup is found. He shall be my servant. As for you, get you up in peace unto your Father.
All Judah now pours out his heart. He came near unto him and said, Oh my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my Lord's ears. Let not thine anger burn against thy servant. Thou art even a Sparrow. And my Lord asked his servant, saying, You have a father or brother? And we said, My Lord, we have a father, an old man, child of his old age, a little one, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father in love with him. And thou said, son to thy servants, bring him down unto me, that I may set my eyes upon him. And he said unto my Lord, The lad cannot leave his father.
If he should leave his father, his father would die. And thou said, son, to my servants, except your youngest brother come down with you. Ye shall see my face no more. And it came to pass when we came up under thy servant, my father, notice the tenderness in which he's speaking about his father Jacob. At that time when he was at the pit, he could say, oh, let's not kill Joseph. Let's try to make a little money off him, and we'll sell him. And now?
It's thy servant, my father. We told him the words of my Lord, the 25th verse, and our father said, go again, buy us a little food.
And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down, for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant, my father, said unto us, You know that my wife bare me suits two sons, that one went out for me. And I said, surely is torn in pieces. And I saw him not again, not since. And if you take this also from me, and mischief before him, you shall bring down my Gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Now, therefore, when I come to thy servant, my father.
And the lad be not with us.
Seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life, it shall come to pass. When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. And thy servants shall bring down the Gray hairs of thy servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave for thy servant. Oh, notice the loneliness here. You know this is the hyssop we're Speaking of in the previous, In the previous meeting. For thy servant became surety for the lab under my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide.
Instead of a ladder barman to my Lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go to my father in the lab? Be not with me, lest prayer, adventure. I see the evil that shall come in my father. And Joseph could not refrain himself before them all that stood by him. And he cried, Cause every man to grow up for me. And there stood no man with him. While Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. He wept aloud.
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And the Egyptians in the House of Pharaoh heard, And Joseph said unto his brethren, Oh, what a moment was this? What a moment. You're up to this point.
Jacob Joseph has been speaking to his to his brother through an interpreter.
And I mentioned earlier what a strange thing for the brothers to come to Egypt and hear a man say.
Hear this, for I fear God and live. And now to hear this.
In perfect Hebrew.
I am.
Joseph.
Doth my father yet live?
I I can't, words can't describe this moment. They, they can't. Here's the brothers. They've gone through this whole scenario with this Lord and all of a sudden it's Joseph. You know, maybe they'd come and maybe they'd looked around at the slaves as they came into Egypt and wondered, no, is there someone that looks like Joseph? They've gone through this whole scenario and.
Now they're standing here, and Joseph says I am Joseph, thus my father yet live. And so when he sees the repentance of their hearts.
He weeps. Now we'll go to the.
The fourth time that Joseph weeps.
45th chapter.
The 10th verse. Thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen. Now shall be near unto me, thou and my children, my children's children, my flocks, thy herds, and all thou hast narrow will I nourish thee, for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast come to poverty. Behold your eyes. See that the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh with you. And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen, that you may shall haste and bring down. My father. Hit her, and he fell.
Notice now here's our subject the 4th time that the seven times that that.
Joseph weeps. He fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck, where ovary kissed all his brethren and wept upon him, and after that his brethren talked with him.
Well, here we find Joseph weeps.
And the reason that he weeps here is because he reflects.
He's reflected on all that it cost his father in sending Benjamin.
He's seen the repentance that's manifested in his Britain, in the heart of his brethren. But now he goes through and he reflects in his own heart the workings of the Lord in his own circumstances, and he weeps. And I say that because let's turn back now to the 40th chapter.
This is where.
The Butler and the Baker.
They tell their dreams.
And.
Joseph, he tells the dream to the Butler.
And he tells the dream to the Baker.
And then we find a weakness here now in Josephs life.
Where he seeks to rely on the arm of the flesh.
We had before us this morning a little bit about the staff.
And it was the comments were made of about many many brother made the comment as the staff being that picture of dependence.
Spoke a little bit about David and how there was a time in his life where he relinquished that staff and he wanted this sort of Goliath. And we see that same thing here in Joseph's life, where here Joseph, his desire now is to is to reach out with the arm of the flesh. And so we find that he tells the dreams to both the Butler and the Baker. And then it says in the 14th person. Now notice how many times Joseph refers to himself in these next couple of verses. But think on me.
Shall be well with the insure kindness, I pray thee unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing, that they should put me into the dungeon.
He's in a hard circumstance here.
And he wants out.
But his focus is on himself.
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And so.
He says here at the end of the portion at the end of the 14th verse, rather make mention of me into Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house where I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews.
And you know, I tried to picture the next little while as the two.
The two servants go out in the 21St, it says it came to pass. The third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast unto all his servants. And he lifted up the hand of the chief Butler, and his chief Baker among his servants. And he restored the chief Butler unto his Butler ship again, and give the cup under Pharaohs hand. But he hanged the chief Baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. Yet did not the chief Butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
You know.
Joseph here, I'm sure the next day he was listening to here if there was any footsteps that were coming to the prison, you know, I'm going to get out of here at last. And, you know, it doesn't happen. And every time someone comes to the prison, oh, he perhaps thinks, you know, maybe there's going to be a word coming. I'm going to be set free. And a couple days goes on. And he sort of wonders, you know, I wonder if this man is really relayed that message to Pharaoh. And a week goes by and two weeks goes by and a month goes by.
And then he realizes, oh, it's not going to happen. You know, I believe that when the Lord heard that little discourse as to Joseph seeking to reach and to hang on to the arm of the flesh, that the Lord said, you know, Joseph, you need two more years in this prison, two more years. And I believe that this is where Joseph came to the bottom of himself.
We've had Jacob coming to the bottom of his cell.
We've seen Judah and how he pours out his heart to first of all Jacob and now to Joseph and it's obvious he's at the bottom.
This is the point when we find that Joseph comes to the bottom of himself. You know, I've so appreciated the thought of repentance because if we were to look at the 41St chapter now, we see a true picture of what we had this morning in connection with the hyssop. We find a man here, it says.
The 41St chapter It came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river, and behold, they came up out of the river, seven well favored, kind, fat fleshed, and they fed in the Meadow, and behold, seven other kind, and so on.
And he said the fifth verse he slept and dreamed the second time. And behold, 7 years of corn.
And the eighth verse that came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none that could interpret unto them. Then spake the chief Butler unto Pharaoh. Now he'll, if you could go to that scene in that room, whatever it was, and who all was there, you could hear the Butler listening to this story. And if it had been me, I'd have put up my hand and said, I know someone that can tell the dream.
But that's not what the Butler does, and what we have here is true repentance, because what the Butler says is not I know some of the can tell a dream. The Butler says unto Pharaoh, saying the ninth verse. I do remember my fault this day.
He doesn't stop there. He doesn't go on and say and I know someone that can tell the dream. So I remember my fault this day there was wrath with his servants. He put me in ward and the captain of the guard says both me and the chief Baker, we dreamed the dream in one night. I and he, he goes through the whole scenario.
And then he says there's someone that can tell the dream.
You know, a beautiful picture.
Joseph reflects on all this. He reflects on his time now as Lord of all Egypt, and he reflects on it all. And Joseph weeps in the 45th chapter and the 14th verse. Hell upon his brother Benjamin's neck.
You know, if you go back to the 7th verse of that chapter, we went through the little speech that Joseph gave to the Butler where he was the the focus of that whole speech. But now notice it's it's the same speech. But now notice where the focus is the 7th verse.
The fifth verse Rather be not therefore grieved or angry with yourself that you sold me Hitler, for God did send me before you to preserve life. These two years have the family been in the land, and there are yet five years in which there shall neither be earring nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you with posterity in the earth, to save your soul.
By a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me Hitler, but God, and if maybe a father to Pharaoh, Lord of all his house and rooter of throughout the land of Egypt.
Hey, Steve grew up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph. God hath made me Lord of all Egypt. And we find that Joseph weeps now He sends them away.
He knows all that's going to transpire. He knows they have to go to their dad and they have to say, well, dad, then we deceived you. We.
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We took Joseph coat and we dipped in the blood. We, we held it up to you. We, we fabricated this story. You know the whole scenario. But he sends them away. Mr. Darby translates the end of the 24th verse. So he sent his brother away and they departed and he sent them to them. See that you do not quarrel by the way.
Turn with me to the 46th chapter and the 28th verse.
It's interesting in this chapter we have a list of the brothers.
We have 12 Times the list of the 12 sons of Joseph in the Word of God, each time a different order. We have an order here. We don't have time to look at that, but it says the 28th verse speaking about Jacob. He sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his face to Goshen, and they came into the land.
A Goshen.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen. He presented himself unto him, and he fell on his neck, and he wept on his neck a good while. The fifth time. Now that Joseph weeps five times he swept. Joseph made ready his chariot, he goes to meet his father. Oh, what a moment this was.
Lay eyes on the brothers. He's laid eyes on his younger brother Benjamin, and now he lays eyes on his father. And it says he fell on his neck and he wept on his neck a good while, you know, I believe, because he knew in his soul.
The way that the Lord had worked in his heart.
You know, if we were to turn to the end of the previous chapter, the 45th chapter.
When the boys they come to Jacob and they, they tell him the whole story, and you know he doesn't believe them at first. He looks out, he sees the wagons, and it says the 27th verse. They told him all the words of Joseph which he has said unto them. And when he saw the wagons with Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. And Israel said, it is enough. Joseph, my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die. You know in Jacob's life there had never been enough of anything.
Never. Never been enough cows. Never been enough cattle. Never been enough goats or sheep, never been enough wives.
Never been enough. The Lord had said that he could, that all the land was his, but that wasn't enough. He had to go buy some. It was never enough of anything. Now at this point, there's enough Joseph. Jacob Farley says it is enough. I will go and see Joseph before I die. And so here in our chapter, the 46th chapter.
Joseph reflects on all that the Lord had brought Jacob along, and there's not even any discussion. He just falls on his father's, on his father's neck, and he wept on his neck.
A good while now let's go.
I wish we could go through the next couple of chapters, but we can't. Let's go now to the 50th chapter.
The end of the 49th chapter where we find the blessings of the 12 sons and water chapter that is.
33rd verse, when Jacob had made an end.
I'll come and get sons.
Gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and he kissed him.
You know, this was quite a time 17 years later.
As Joseph looks.
On the dead form of his father.
And thousands of memories gone through, I stood by the.
By the casket of my mother.
How many memories went through?
All those characteristics of the character that brought me into such blessing and and Joseph, he goes through this at this point. Just think of him going through the you know, it mentions in.
We're sometimes hard on Jacob, but Jacob had tremendous character, tremendous character in different ways. Just to mention one, if we were to go to the book of Malachi, the 1St chapter, we find that a little phrase that says Jacob have I loved. And if we were to go to Romans, the 9th chapter, we find that it's reversed and it's the same phrase, but it says I have loved Jacob, and I just thought of the Lord looking down at Jacob.
And appreciating a character where Jacob was concerned so much that he makes this remark. I love Jacob.
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Jacob have I loved if you can think in your mind of Jacob and how he worked seven years for Rachel and he got married to Rachel on that that night and he woke up.
In the morning. And it wasn't Rachel. You know I can't conceive.
That situation, it's beyond my mind to to wake up in the morning and and find that you've married the wrong person.
You know at that point.
Many of us here would have said that's it, I'm God.
But not Jacob. His love for Rachel was so strong that he says all work another seven years.
I want Rachel, that love was so strong.
The Lord could look down and say, I love Jacob, Jacob have I loved, you know, Joseph, he goes through all those characteristics at this time.
When his father head is bowed and death and he weeps. Now he remembers that time when there was a wrestling match. And if we were to turn back to the portion when it says that Jacob wrestled, it doesn't say that Jacob wrestled with a man, but it says a man wrestled with Jacob.
What a time that wasn't Jacob's life.
How many of us here had come to that point in our life when the Lord has wrestled with us, and what was the outcome? You know, I look here over this audience and there's some old men here. They're Princess of God, Princess of God. And why? Is it because the Lord has wrought with them, the Lord has wrestled with them, and they're indeed Princess of God?
And Joseph now, as he looks down at his father, having passed away from the scene, oh, what a loss it was to his heart to realize that a Prince of God and a Prince with God was now with God. And so here in the 50th chapter and the first verse, Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept.
Our time is gone.
We'll finish by that clock.
Of the 50th chapter. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph, will prayer, adventure, hate us, will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, My father did command before he died, saying, So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin.
For they did unto the evil, and now we pray thee, forgive the trespass of thy servants.
The trespass of the service of the God of my father. Oh, what a blow this was to Joseph, after all that Joseph had done.
To think of how he gathered that corn for those seven years, knowing that there was going to be a famine in the land.
As we had in.
In the book of Acts there was number nourishment for the people of God. And Joseph knew that. And so he brought in discouragement, I I believe, for the express purpose that his father and his father's house would have bread to eat. And he gathered it up, and when they came he made sure they had lots of food, and he sent them away, and he sent their money away.
He did everything he possibly could for them. He sent wagons to bring them down. His heart was so manifest.
And after expressing that and giving them the best of the land of Egypt and living years and giving them the best for years and years, they come to him with this fabricated story.
Our father said you know when he died, that you really should forgive us.
Noel, Joseph weeps, Joseph weeps here, and Joseph wept when he spake unto them. His brother went and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, and be thy servants. You know we think of the Lord, and how he wept over Jerusalem. Cough. And would I have gathered these henders? Gather chicks under her wings.
Said he would not think of at the grave of Lazarus, Lazarus and weeps. And to think, brethren, of how He's brought us thus far along the pathway year after year, while our own goal has been manifest time and time again. And he brings us into such blessing, and we go our own way again. And he brings us into such blessing, and we go away again time after time.
Does he react in the same way that Joseph reacts here?
Where his brother and they came to him, they said, oh, you know, they had no understanding of his heart of love. Does the Lord look down and realize in my heart, I just don't understand his heart of love? And here Joseph, there's only one recourse for him. It says Joseph wept. He had nothing to say. He just weeps after all that he could possibly do for his brethren.
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And they come up with this.
The little hymn puts it so nicely in the 85th. Him well knowing we should ever be so cold, so negligent of thee. What a wonderful thing, though, to realize for that Blessed One.
Although he may weep, his love is unchanged. He looked down at Jacob. He saw those characteristics and his love toward us is the same. It hasn't changed. What a wonderful thing to realize that Blessed One and his love for us.
Bible Prophecy 3 of 4
Address—R. Thonney
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Tonight, as I mentioned last time, I'd like to take up the Book of Revelation in a brief way, kind of giving a brief resume of the whole book in view of what we've been talking about these other nights. But before I start, perhaps a few that haven't been here before, I'd just like to again review some of the things we've taken up.
First of all, we started.
Distinguishing in the Word of God that God addresses different people groups. One is called the Jewish people or the nation of Israel that we know exists now in the earth.
There were 12 tribes. What we speak of mainly when we say Jews is really two of those 12 tribes. It was the tribe of Judah and Benjamin that were left in the land and were carried away captive to Babylon. And they were the ones that came back in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, and they were there when the Lord Jesus.
Came back to came to this world the first time.
And they are the ones majorly responsible for the rejection and crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. It wasn't the whole nation that was there. It was those two tribes. And what we're talking about in this time of great tribulation, in these seven years.
Is as majorly to bring those people to a recognition of what they have done so that they will recognize Jesus when he comes back to this earth again. So that's the Jewish people. The Gentiles are the rest of the nations. We are majorly Gentile peoples. The Church of God is a body of Christians, people that have been saved out of.
Jewish people and the Gentiles to form another entity, and the church is a heavenly people. So what we're talking about here, in this time of prophecy which concerns the earth, let's remember that the Church, before that time begins, is raptured to be with the Lord in glory. And that's where all of us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will be.
When this time of terrible.
Judgment begins in the earth.
We also explained the matter of the 70 weeks of Daniel. It's a prophecy that starts with a very distinct.
Time date The command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem at 455 BC and then there was to be 7 weeks. These are weeks of years, not weeks of days, or 49 years and 62 weeks or 434 years until Messiah the Prince.
The Lord Jesus at the end of that time presented himself to the nation of Israel, was rejected. And there is where there begins an interval between the end of the 69th week and the last 70th week, the 70th week or seven years. And that's where we come up with seven years when we talk of great tribulation. And last time we noticed that.
That week of seven years starts when there is a pact formed between the people of Israel and the Roman Prince that will be in power in Europe at that time. That's what begins this last week of seven years. Now I'd like to take up the Book of Revelation.
In a brief and rather rapid way and show how it fits on to this chart of seven years we are living.
In this present interval of grace, God is not counting the years prophetically now, and we know that for the rapture of the Church, since the Church is a heavenly body, there is no sign that has to take place so that the Lord will come and take us away.
For his coming again at the end of the Revelation, at the Tribulation, there are many signs. In fact, some of the things we see today indicate that we are getting down to that time we spoke last time of. One of the most remarkable signs was the existence in the earth of the nation of Israel. After almost two Millennium. There is a kid in the earth since.
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1948.
The nation of Israel, not only is the remarkable that, but that they have their original language, the Hebrew tongue. So those are signs that show us that we are in that time period. We cannot tell the day nor the hour that the Lord says. And so we're not going to set times here. That would be wrong. But we know that we are in these times and the Lord has told us to watch.
Now let's go to the Book of Revelation. I'm not going to be flipping around through the Bible and I trust it'll be fairly easy. We'll start with chapter one of Revelation. And you notice the book title that men have put in this book is the Revelation of Saint John the Divine. At least that's what it says in my Bible, that the real title of this book is verse one, the Revelation.
Of Jesus Christ, and this should thrill any of us.
Who really, truly loved the Lord Jesus Christ? The Lord Jesus is going to be revealed publicly in this world.
John, who is the one who wrote this book by inspiration of God?
Is.
One who knew the Lord Jesus during his first coming to this earth, in fact that the last Passover supper he had leaned on Jesus bosom so he was close to the Lord and we're going to see that he learns to know the Lord.
In a different way than he had ever known him before. And that's why this is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
We look at Jesus and we think of one who is meek and lowly, who had no certain dwelling place down here in this world, but now we're going to know Him in a different way. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ which God-given to Him to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it by his Angel and to his servant John, who bear record of.
Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that He saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things that are written therein, for the time is at hand. Nor the book of the Bible has a blessing connected with reading it like this book, and I just want to encourage each one here to read it.
You might not understand a whole lot about it, but there is a special blessing connected with reading it.
Brother was telling the story not too long ago about a young man who was recently saved and read the Book of Revelation. And somebody asked him at the end, well, what did you get out of it? And he said, well, there was a lot I didn't understand, but I did get out of it that Jesus wins in the end. And I thought that was really nice. That's true. We have a person that we profess to believe in and.
Follow that is going to win in the end. Isn't that tremendous in view of all the evil and all the confusion of the world that we live in? We follow a person who is going to win in the end.
Well, John is the instrument to write this book, verse 4 to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace unto you and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come. That is, he is the ever existing one. He is that's present. He was that's past and which is to come that's future. So the Lord Jesus is presented as the ever existing one.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness in the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins, in his own blood, that made us kings and priests. And to God and his Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he cometh with clouds. This book deals with the coming of the Lord Jesus, and every eye shall see him.
Let's distinguish what we're talking about in this verse seven. It's not the rapture because when the Lord Jesus comes to take his own people home to heaven, those that are not believers are not going to see him at that time, only those who have truly trusted in the Lord Jesus through all ages of time. They are the ones that are going to be resurrected, a great multitude of those that have died.
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And we which are alive and remain, the scripture tells us.
To the coming of the Lord are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. The Lord Jesus is only going to come down to the clouds and then he's going to take us home to the glory. But what we're talking about in this verse 7 is this part of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him.
And all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen.
Why are they going to wail is because when he comes at the end of this tribulation period, he comes to deal out judgment. Judgment is God's strange work. He does not like to judge and that's why he's presented a savior to save us from our sins. But those who will not deal with God as a savior God.
Will have to meet him anyhow and they will meet him as a judge and that's why when he comes again.
There's going to be wailing.
Verse eight I am Alpha and Omega, the first and last letter of the Greek alphabet, The beginning and the end set the Lord, which is and which was and which is to come? The Almighty. Is He going to be able to implant His government when He comes to this world? Is He able to be able to judge those mighty peoples of the earth?
Yes, nothing will stand before him. He is introduced here as the Almighty.
And then it says verse nine, I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the aisle that is called Patnas for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the 1St and the last, and what thou seest write in a book.
And send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia under Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and unto Pergamus, and unto Thyatiran, and to Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. Here are the seven churches of this present interval of grace. At least we can say that in these seven churches 7 is always a complete number, as there are seven days in one week.
So.
Seven churches is representative of this present interval of grace that we now live in. And so he has a message for these seven churches. But notice John hears this voice and he says in verse 12. I turn to see the voice that spake with me.
You know, sometimes we have to turn around to see the Lord Jesus.
I see sometimes folks that get so discouraged because they see Christians acting in a way they shouldn't act.
And they looking in One Direction. And I found this really helpful that sometimes if you want to see the Lord, you have to turn around. John was exactly there. He was looking in One Direction and he had to turn to see the one that was looking. Oh brethren, how we need to turn and look full into the face of Jesus. We can't do it in a physical way, but by faith.
Reading the scriptures we can see him.
And that's what makes a real Christian, is one who has occupied with Jesus, one who is saved and occupied with Jesus. That's our testimony is noticing on the way to the meeting tonight the moon, how bright it is. Why is it so bright? It's because it is in full reflection of the glory of the sun. And you and I are going to be bright in our testimony in the measure that we're looking.
Fall into the face of Jesus. That's where our testimony is going to come from.
Not looking at each other, but looking at him. So John turns around and notice it says being turned. I saw 7 golden candlesticks. I've often puzzled over that. Why did he see candle sticks? You'd think he'd say well I saw one standing in the mix. No, he sees the candlesticks first because the candlesticks are representative of the assembly or the churches.
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People here in this world that are light bearers, they're candlesticks. They have a light to give to this world. And isn't that a real challenge to our hearts, to dear brother and sister and the Lord Jesus that we need to be giving the light? That's why God has put us in this world. So this is what is visible in this world. People say, well, I don't know if Jesus is down here.
Where are you going to see him?
There are those who have the Candlestick, the light of testimony. They are the ones that should be telling the story of Jesus.
And then he says in verse 13, and I just like to say in this first chapter, this is a book of judgment. We have the judge introduced and this is the beginning of the introduction to the judge of this coming day of judgment.
In the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of Man.
Clothed with a garment down to the foot and gird about the paps with a golden girdle. Just to pause there a minute. This is the way a judge is dressed. He's a long black robe, generally speaking, but this is the way he's taking the character of a judge here, and he takes the title Son of Man.
When he comes back again, we know that Jesus is very God.
And very man is God, and man in the same blessed person.
But when he comes back again, he's going to be coming as man to judge. And that's why he has that title, Son of Man. People are not going to be able to say to him, you don't understand what it is to be a human being in this plant on this planet. Yes, he does. He was here. He passed through life down here.
And he was rejected and crucified, so he knows exactly what it's like.
So when he comes again, he's going to be here as Son of Man.
And it says he was gird about the paps with a golden girdle. There was a golden belt around his breasts. Golden scripture is often figurative of what is divine, divine righteousness. And even though the breast speaks of affection, God's love is never changed. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. But there are times.
When God, the display of God's love is restrained. And so we seek here.
A golden belt around his paps his breasts.
So he cannot show his love in this time of judgment. Does that mean that his love has changed? No, he still loves the same as ever. Verse 14. His head and his hairs were white like wool. Great age and experience in his judgment. In fact, in Daniel the Prophet, he's called the Ancient of Days.
His.
Eyes were as a flame of fire, extremely penetrating.
When a welder wants to cut through metal steel, he takes in a settling torch.
And he can cut right through it. It cuts right through it. I look at everyone here this evening and we look at each other and we see what is exterior and we maybe guess what people are thinking, but we really don't know. And we're told not to judge the motives of others.
But here is one that looks straight through you. He sees every motive of your heart.
You cannot hide anything from Him. This is the judge whom every human being that has ever lived on the face of the earth must face. If they have not accepted him as Savior. Again, I say we can accept him as Savior. But if a person refuses to accept Jesus as Savior, they must meet Jesus anyway, and they will meet him as a judge. The decision.
Is on in the responsibility of every person.
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Verse 15 His feet that speaks of his ways like in define brass as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Oh, he knows how to make a person listen sometimes, you know.
A child that is a bit way wayward when their mother speaks to them, acts like he doesn't hear, and the mother will raise her voice louder and louder until that child listens.
And God has a way to make you listen. You may say, I don't really want to listen, you will listen. He has his way of making everyone listen, His voice as the sound of many waters. I'm sure some of you have been to Niagara Falls to hear the Thunder of those waters as they plunge down.
Into the depths and when you're standing at the edge of those falls.
You find that you have to, if you're going to try to talk to somebody, you have to get right up to their ear and shout because it is so powerful. The noise of those many waters, His voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth with a sharp 2 edged sword. That's his word.
And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. Oh, I love to think about this. You know, you and I have not seen the glory of Jesus like this. When they he was here in this world, He was veiled with a human form. People looked at him and said He's just like anybody else.
There was no Halo over his head. He was called the Carpenter. Another place. They called him the carpenter's son. We know him.
They didn't see any difference is because his divinity, his glory was veiled by that human form. But when he comes again, here it is. His face was as the sun shineth in his strength. He ever tried to look straight at the sun? You can't do it. You'll damage your sight if you do it.
But Jesus, when he comes again his countenance as the sun shineth in his strength.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the 1St.
And the last I am he that liveth and was dead. And behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen.
And have the keys of hell and of death. So here we have.
The Lord Jesus presenting himself to John. John is totally fearful and falls at his feet as dead. But the Lord Jesus puts his hand on and says fear not. It was because he was revealing himself to John in a new way that John had not known before.
Now notice verse 19. I'd like to, you know, notice this, because this gives a brief outline of the whole Book of Revelation.
Jesus says to John, write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.
So what John had seen, that is the first phrase is chapter one of this book. The things which are that's present, that is chapters 2:00 and 3:00, because we are living in this church age, this present church age, and the things which shall be hereafter, that is chapter 4, forward those.
Future events after the Rapture. Then chapter 4 forward begins.
The time of tribulation, but that gives a brief outline of the whole book. Now we're going to have to go rather fast. I just like to say as we start now to go into the different chapters of the book, that if we can take the Book of Revelation, you know, it has 22 Chapters and let's divide it in half.
11:00 and 11:00 makes 22 The 1St 11 Chapters.
Begins with this period of grace, this interval of grace.
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Where the church is here in this world, that's where we are now. We think we're getting close to the end and at the end of Chapter 11, it comes down to the 7th trumpet and that is the introduction of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ into this world. So from chapter one to Chapter 11, we have this whole period that we've been talking.
Now let's go and speak about that, but I'd like to say in chapter two and three, we are in the church age, those seven churches from Ephesus to Laodicea, and they are representative of the Christian testimony here in this world. And Jesus is seen as standing in the midst, observing all that takes place.
And he has his judgment about it.
He's walking in the midst of those 7 golden candlesticks and five of the seven. He notices things that are not right and he tells us so. And so there's a lot of lessons that we can learn in these chapters two and three, for example, in Ephesus. His complaint?
In verse four of chapter two was I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love.
The relationship between Christ and His church is redeemed people, is a love relationship and do you think He doesn't notice it? When we turn away and give our hearts affections to other things in this world, He does notice it.
You and I may say, well, it looks like they're all pretty straight and they're going on fairly well, but He looks right into the interior. How is it in our hearts affections? Is there a heart that burns for Jesus within my breast? He knows He is the one that passes judgment. I cannot pass judgment on myself, but it is for me to reflect and to be.
In the light of his presence, He's here with us.
Purchase and I just like to mention the last church, which is Laodicea, and the characteristic thing at the end of chapter 3 and Laodicea is that they are indifferent to Christ.
They form their own judgments about how they are, and it's totally the opposite of what Christ thinks about them.
I think that's really solemn to think about. You know, sometimes we form our own self evaluation.
I don't really have a whole lot of confidence in the evaluation I form about myself.
No, that is not what is going to stand in that day when I appear before the Lord. What is going to stand is His evaluation. And you'll notice too, in verse 20 of the third chapter where the Lord Jesus is in relation to this last church. He is outside of a closed door.
Knocking for admittance.
Isn't that solemn? They started by leaving their first love, and they ended by having Jesus outside of a closed door. No room there for Jesus. Solemn to think about. But that is what Jesus sees in the Christian profession. And I really believe that there's much in Laodicea that corresponds to the Christian testimony today.
Now we're going to go on to the 4th and 5th chapters, and you'll notice in each of these chapters it tells about a throne. And I'd like to present it in this way that it is the basis upon which God will judge this world. What ground does God have to judge this world? What basis?
There's a courthouse up here in Lawrenceville.
And there's judges that have court cases. On what grounds do they judge?
There is the law of the land, and upon the ground of that law people are judged as to how they act and how they disobey the laws. But here, how is God going to judge this world? On what grounds does Jesus have for coming back and affecting the judgment? That's an important point.
And in chapter four, in a brief way, I'd like to point out.
That it is because He is Creator. Notice verse 11.
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power.
For thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. In other words, because He is the Creator, He has the right to judge this world.
And that's why I really believe that man struggles so to come up with alternate theories as to the origin of the universe. The theory of evolution is really outdated. It is no longer valid in scientific circles, yet they continue to teach it in the schools because they say they don't have any other option.
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But evolution teaches that everything came from nothing.
If that were true, then mankind has no ultimate responsibility to anyone and he can do what he likes. And when we see the way our country has gone and the way young people and children have been taught that and what they do as a result, it is shocking.
We do have an ultimate responsibility to a creator God.
You cannot get away from it. As much as you like to ignore it, you cannot get away from it. We have a God who has created us and we are responsible to him. So that's the ground that is presented in chapter four, chapter 5. Now there is a different reason why God will judge the world. It is because.
God is a Redeemer God, and he has bought back.
This world that departed from him by the blood of Jesus.
Notice I'd like to read a few verses here. I saw on the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written.
Within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals, this book is the title Deed to the Earth.
And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof. And no man in heaven, nor in earth, nor under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book and to read the book, neither to look thereon. One of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah.
The root of David hath prevailed to open the Book, and to open the seven seals thereof. And I beheld in law in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Now notice the song of heaven. In verse nine they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof. For thou was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood. Out of every kindred and tongue, and people and nation has made us unto our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.
So there the ground of his judgment is redemption.
Not only does Jesus have the rights to judge this world as Creator, he has the rights to judge this world because he died and paid the price to buy it back again. On those two counts, he has every right to take the title deed of the earth.
You know, Satan has gotten lots of power in this world, but he is going to be.
Deposed of his power and Jesus is going to take the power in the end. He's going to take that book and he's going to open the seals there up.
Now.
In Chapter 6, we begin the seal judgments. He begins to open those seals on that book, and every time he opens a seal, there is another judgment that falls on the earth. And I'd like to say here that way we understand. I'm not saying my understanding is.
Totally perfect, but it is the way we understand and I'm certainly subject to correction and challenge. But this is the way I understand it and I will present it. The seal judgments take place in the 1St 3 1/2 years, what we talked about last time in Matthew 24 as the beginning of sorrows. There are 123456 seals opened in chapter.
Six and then Chapter 7.
Is kind of a parenthesis in which before any further judgment begins to fall.
There is a ceiling of 144,000 people.
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From the earth, and if you'll notice the list in Chapter 7, it is of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
In other words, these are not gentile peoples, and I just like to say.
Without saying too much that the Jehovah's Witness say that this is that they are the 144,000, but if you look here closely, they are of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel, 12,000 from each tribe. So it cannot be Gentile peoples that it's referring to here. It is those Jewish people that are.
Sealed before the awful.
The more awful judgments start to fall, but notice up to verse 8 of this Chapter 7.
Is the 12 tribes in verse 9, there's a great multitude which is going to be saved from all the nations of the earth during that tribulation period. It says with a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues which stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands.
So that's not only the 12 tribes that are going to be saved.
That are sealed and saved. It's going to be those.
Great multitude from all nations, that is during this tribulation period, like we mentioned last time, the gospel that will be preached is not exactly the gospel we preach now. It deals with the same person, but it is the gospel of the Kingdom. It is the gospel that John the Baptist preached when he came as forerunner to the Lord Jesus, and it is the gospel that the Lord Jesus preached at the beginning.
Of his public ministry here. It is a simple message. Straighten out your ways. They will go through the whole earth telling people, straighten out. The king is coming and there's going to be severe judgment for the person that's not ready. This is the judgment that will be preached in that time period.
Now we go to Chapter 8 and you'll notice the 7th seal is opened, and when the 7th seal is opened, it introduces the seven trumpet judgments. Let me pause just to say that in the Book of Revelation you have three sets of seven that are judgments, the seven seals, the seven trumpets, which begin here in the beginning of chapter.
And later on, the seven vials, the seven seals take place, generally speaking, in this first 3 1/2 years. And the 7th seal introduces the trumpet judgments and the trumpet judgments, according to my understanding, they run consecutively with the vile judgments through these last 3 1/2 years.
They become increasingly severe.
The judgments in the beginning of these three seven years, 1St 3 1/2 years are more providential. There is famine, there is civil war, things that you might say can be explained by natural means. But in the last 3 1/2 years, it's going to be evident that God has his hand directly in the judgments that are going to fall. And that's why it's called.
Great tribulation, the intensity, the awfulness of those judgments. We have no idea. Again, I repeat what I said last time, The Lord Jesus said there will be no time so awful after it. There was no time so awful before it as this time of judgment in this last 3 1/2 years. And that's why.
We played for souls to come to Christ.
To escape that judgment, there is no other escape but in the Lord Jesus. So in the 8th, 9th chapters you have the trumpet judgments. In chapter 10 there is a mighty Angel that comes down, and if you'll notice at the end of verse six, he swears.
By him that liveth forever and ever.
Chapter 10 and verse six, who created heaven and the things that are therein, art and earth, of things that are there in art and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer. There's an alternate translation that reads that there should be no longer delay. In other words, the time has come of awful judgment and God since.
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His strange work is judgment when he starts to judge.
He will make a brief work of it. He has waited almost 2000 years since he was crucified.
But when he comes, and when he lifts his hand in judgment, there will be no longer delay. He will strike and strike hard. He's going to take the reins of government in this world in Chapter 11.
You have, we'll just go for the sake of time. I'm going to have to go a little faster here. Verse 15 is the 7th trumpet the 7th Angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever. It's like we were mentioning last time.
The whole system of government that we know.
Is going to be replaced. When Jesus comes again, He is going to put his.
Righteous judgment in the earth and this is the introduction. The 7th trumpet introduces the Kingdom, the worldwide Kingdom of.
Our Lord and of His Christ, what a glorious day that's going to be when He takes the reins of government. And like I said, the 1St 11 Chapters takes care of this whole time period from this present interval of grace.
Right on through the tribulation to this moment when Jesus comes back to earth, when every eye shall see him, when he's going to put his government in the earth, His judgments are going to be executed at that time. So now when we go on to chapter 12, let's kind of think of this as going back to fit in other parts.
Of the picture.
It's like in many books that are written, you will have a theme, it takes it up and then a little later on the book it will go back and say, now I want to tell you about a specific thing here. And in chapter 12 we go back to the birth of Christ. Notice.
There appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun that's Israel, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, and having.
7 heads and 10 horns and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered for the devour her son, as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to unto God into his throne.
This great red dragon is the devil, it says a little later in the same chapter.
But it here it is in the context of the Roman Empire, because when Jesus was born, when he came the first time, it was the Roman Empire, the prevalent power in the earth. When Jesus comes back again, that same Roman Empire is going to be existing again, and we are seeing it take place before us today.
The European Union or the European Community?
Is going to be governed by 7 by 10 men, of which one will be number one man. This is what we have here in this chapter. And so the Roman Empire was in existence when Christ was here 1St and they tried to devour that boy that was born.
Herod, the delegate of the Roman Empire.
Sent to Jerusalem, sent to Bethlehem and had all the little boys from 2 years old and under killed to try to devour that manchild. We know that the Lord warned Joseph just before and he took Jesus to Egypt and so he was, he was saved from that death. But when Jesus comes back again, it's going to be that same.
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Roman power of Western Europe that's going to be in power and they are going to see, as we will see perhaps next time they will going to they're going to come and fight to make war against the Lord Jesus Christ. Incredible that they think that they're going to be able to win in that war.
In verse seven this chapter 12.
We have Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon and the dragon is cast out of heaven and this takes place during the tribulation period.
And if you'll notice, I just like to point out here in verse.
It's verse 14, it says at the end of the verse.
She has nourished for a time and times and half a time. Time is one times if you make that 2 and half a time is 3 1/2 years. So sometimes in other places it says 42 months, sometimes it says 12160 days. It all refers to this last.
3 1/2 years.
Of what is called great tribulation, when the judgments of God are going to be intense in the earth. So that's what you have in chapter 12, Chapter 13, we are introduced to two figures that will play a large part in this tribulation period. In fact, one of them is a good possibility that both of them are alive in the earth today, but one of them cannot be.
While we are here, it tells us in Second Thessalonians chapter two that is the man that is called the Antichrist. But these two men are going to play a great part. Like we were mentioning last time, the beast or the head, the political head of the revived Roman Empire, European Community is going to have his seat in Rome.
The Antichrist will have his seat, as we will see in Jerusalem, because he sits in the temple of God, which is at Jerusalem. That is the rebuilt temple that they will have to do their sacrifices at that time. And he shows himself that he is God. He takes the place of God, and there's going to be an alliance between these two men.
In that day, Israel needs protection.
And so they're going to get protection from Europe.
So in chapter 13.
You'll notice there's a beast that rises out of the sea. The sea in scripture is often looked at as the mass of people's There's waves that powerfully move people's, waves of politics, waves of religion that move them strongly in the way they're being moved today. And out of that seething mass of humanity, this beast is going to.
He is a man, but he is called a beast because you know, a beast is something that has their eyes toward the earth. You know, a cow looks at the earth. He doesn't have a head to look up into the heavens. He has a head that looks at the earth. And this man will be a beast because he has reference to the earth. He doesn't want to have anything to do with a God in heaven. That's why he's going to proclaim.
As an object of worship and the Antichrist in Jerusalem, and they're going to command worship to those.
Amongst other things, let's read verse three. I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed. In all the world wondered after the beast, and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, who is likened to the beast, and who is able to make war with him?
There was given unto him a mouth speaking great blasphemy, great things and blasphemies.
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And power was given unto him to continue. 40 and two months. There's that. 3 1/2 years again, 42 months.
Through that time, he's going to have his tremendous power. His power will come not from God. His cup power will come from the dragon or Satan.
And then go down to verse 11 and I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. Here is the Antichrist, he is the religious head, and it says he had two horns as a lamb because he's going to try to take the place of Christ himself.
But he spake as a dragon, he himself, he gets his power as well from Satan. So these two men are two main actors of this future day, one in Rome and one in Jerusalem that will be allied in the coalition against Christ when Christ comes back out of heaven.
It's important to to.
Understand that I'm going to have to go on because our time is just about up. I just like to say that in chapter.
16 You have the vile judgments. If you will take the time of your on your own to compare the trumpets with the vials, you'll find that they correspond a lot.
The 6th vial. I'd like to read what it says there.
In verse 12 it says the 6th Angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared.
Verse 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon and the 7th Angel. No, Yeah, I'd just like to pause there. Armageddon. You notice on this, this chart here, this map, I put the war of God Almighty, the place is Armageddon.
It's what sometimes is called the Battle of Armageddon, and another translation we sometimes refer to uses the term the War of Armageddon. You know, a war is not just one battle, It is a series of battles. And the way we understand, and I'd like to take it up in a brief way next time, is that there are three major battles of the War of Armageddon peoples that come up against Christ.
And are soundly completely.
Defeated in this engagement called the War of God Almighty at Armageddon.
You go over to the 17th chapter and I'd just like to touch this before we stop, but here you have the judgment of the great *****.
A horror in the natural sense is one who has illicit relations.
And this is prohibited in the word of God.
The church is a heavenly people, a heavenly body meant for heaven, meant to be united to Christ in glory. But the church in this world has become a vast.
Structure, organization, whatever word you want to use that is become something great in this world. God never meant it to be something great in this world. He meant it to be great for heaven and heavenly glory with Christ. But it has become that in this world and what we have in this. Sometimes people say this is the Roman Catholic system. I say it is more than that. It is those that.
With that system in what is called the ecumenical movement, which is.
Going along strongly today, they unite with that system. This is what is referred to in chapter 17 and 18, and I'd just like to read verse four of chapter 18.
As to our relationship, any of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus.
To this conglomeration, I heard another voice from heaven saying.
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Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues, For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Well, our time has gone, gone a little faster. I think we'll have time next time to take up what concerns the rest of the Book of Revelation, tremendously glorious times that await this earth in the 1000 years, what is called the Millennium, the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. I tell you, we think that there's awful times coming. There are awful times that are coming, but.
Glorious times are coming immediately after.
When Jesus reigns with a rod of iron.
And he will reign from sea to sea. Everyone will bow to him, every person.