Address—C. Buchanan
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Revelation chapter one.
Verse one.
The word is singular.
The Revelation.
It is one complete.
Whole.
Let us read the first verse and comment something on it.
The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him.
To show unto his servants.
Things which?
Must shortly come to pass.
And he said and signified it by his.
Angel unto his servant John.
Now the origin of this is gone.
And the way he brings it to his servants.
Is through Jesus Christ.
And.
Then he gives it to an Angel.
Who gives it to John?
Who bears record verse two of the Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ of all things?
That he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand.
Now that little phrase in the.
First verse.
Things which must shortly come to pass.
Is stated again in the last chapter.
And that little statement at the end of verse three, the time is at hand, also comes out.
In the last chapter, it's doubled in this book.
That impresses upon us, beloved brethren, the nearness.
What is going to be fulfilled?
Of which we have the prophecy in this book.
The book is very largely future.
Very much of it is prophecy. I'll comment that prophecy always has.
The Indian view.
Of Christ.
It always points to that, even as we had yesterday.
In Acts 2, as in the days of Joel, there was, as we noticed, a partial fulfillment in what is finally going to be fulfilled in this speaking in town, I still think the Age of Miracles is yet to come.
But this book is so very interesting and the way I think of it.
Is that most of it is just around the corner. It's just that close to us.
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But who are these servants?
These servants are mentioned in the last.
The chapter as well.
And there it says, his servants shall serve him.
And they shall see his face. I'd like to add a little bit more.
To the privilege and responsibility of being a servant, of which I believe every person here is going back to Luke's Gospel, chapter 12.
We're just start with verse 34 to catch a few things. 1234 of Luke.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also let your loin.
He girded about, and your light burning, and ye yourself like unto.
Men that wait for their Lord to come. This says men who.
Wait for their Lord to come.
And then we go to the.
The 37th verse and it says, Blessed are those servants.
Now the named servants that occupation comes in. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Verily I send you that He shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meet, and will come forth and serve them.
Now Peter asked the question about what the Lord had put forth in verse 41 and says.
Lord, and speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to others?
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward?
A steward is kind of a chief over the servant.
Humans Lord shall make ruler over his household and give them to give them their portion of meat in due season. Now blessed is that servant whom his Lord shall be found when he cometh shall find so doing so the word servants.
In revelation that we've taken up.
Brings before us three things.
Waiting for the Lord.
Watching for the Lord and working for the Lord. Are you one of those servants? Am I one of those servants?
Really sent and signified by his Angel unto his servant John.
This book is.
Not intimate.
The message comes through an Angel.
There's a reserve and a distance when God enters into the subject of judgment.
Because there is much of judgment in this book, and it is his strange work. He has no delight in it, my dad used to say.
Man has forced God to be something he never wanted to be. That is a judge. Through sin. Man has forced God to judge.
And he slowed, and he's patient and he's gracious. He's waited these 2000 years in grace.
But what impresses me so much is that we're almost at the end.
So we go on down because we want to speak of many things.
To verse 19 we ought to pick up a little of an outline.
Of the revelation.
This verse gives 3 debaters.
Revelation 119 Write the things which thou hast seen.
That turns out to be.
The first chapter.
And the things which are.
That turns out to be chapters two and three. We can especially say so.
Because the prophetic history of these churches has all been unveiled.
As an actuality in 1995.
The things which are we are in 1995 still.
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In chapter 3, right at the end.
Then it says the things which shall be hereafter.
Now notice in chapter 4.
The very first words.
After this, After what, beloved brethren, after the history of the Church has passed away, It's what it amounts to.
And the revelation goes on. I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven.
And.
The first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up, hit her. I think it's all right to use those words which are spoken to John to transfer him from earth to heaven for the visions to the time when you and I will be transferred from earth to heaven.
And running on in anticipation.
This corresponds to the rapture.
Now we read in Titus.
Looking for that blessed hope.
And the glorious appearing of that great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.
And think of it as the second coming of Christ, and correctly so, I believe.
Having two aspects is coming for the Church, His bride, His heavenly company, and His coming with.
The Church to take possession. The manifestation.
And.
As we go through the book, I'm going to state to you now that the timing of His manifestation in this book comes at chapter 19 and verse 11.
And all that takes place between chapter 41 and 1911.
In heaven or on earth?
Takes place.
Between the Lord's coming for us, that blessed hope, the rapture, and His coming with us.
To take the throne of the earth.
In a way.
Revelation is quite simple to get the outline and to enjoy it, and because we're so near to the Rapture.
And that God has made known these things that are going to happen.
In heaven and on earth in that interval between the rapture.
And the manifestation, I think we should be exceedingly interested in it. I'm thankful that a good deal of Revelation Four and Five was read to us this morning. We won't have to read it, but in this chapter we've begun to read.
It's in heaven and these things take place in heaven, and it's exceedingly bright.
I said that this book is filled with judgment.
But you can't get anything more glorious.
In chapters 4:00 and 5:00.
Was a company there in heaven, with the Lamb, the center, and his praises being stated and sung.
Brethren, we could arrive there tomorrow, if not today.
The future is exceedingly bright for the believer.
But God has made unknown to us.
Also, what takes place in chapter 6?
Up to 19.
Let's go, then, to Chapter 19.
And notice.
We stated in heaven and in earth the events.
Most of it from chapter 6 to the end of Chapter 18.
Is on Earth.
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And I find a lot of complexity there in those judgments and the details of them. But God has made them known to stir our hearts.
And so let's read a little bit.
I want to go back to Chapter 17 and pick up a little bit before we come to Chapter 19 because we've got the church identified.
Down here as Babylon the Great, the Mother.
Of harlots and abominations of the earth. These are in capital letters in chapter 17.
5.
But in the first verse of chapter 17.
It says come hit her.
Again a statement, I suppose to John, I will show thee unto thee the judgment of the great ***** that setteth upon the waters. Notice the reading of this. He doesn't show John the great ***** He shows the judgment of the great *****. We're going to find a tremendous difference when he gets to see the true church.
But these chapters take up Babylon the Great.
Which is the Church as man has brought it into confusion.
Outwardly left down here to the very end time.
To be judged fully.
We estate that the false church, the church here that's left on earth after the truth caught out, is never restored. She is completely judged. In contrast, my brother read in Jeremiah 3 yesterday concerning Israel at Jehovah's going to marry her again.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, not only applies to a gift given to a brother.
To help us down here. But it's the promise to Israel. God has set her aside.
He's given her a bill of divorcement, but he's going to come back and pick her up and bring her into blessing for the millennial day. Perhaps we'll get to that. But the serious thing is that the false judge, so false churches wholly wiped off of the earth.
In view of what we've just stated, let's turn to chapter 18. Well, I want to finish the 18th verse, the 18th verse of the 17th chapter to identify who Babylon the Great really speaks of.
The woman connected with that great city, The woman this is.
Revelation 1718. The woman which thou source is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
She has taken that position, she gets this full judgment and it's completed.
And it's completed in Chapter 18. Then we go.
In chapter 19 verse one back to heaven.
After these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and honor and power under the Lord our God. For true and righteous are his judgments. Why, What does it say? For he hath judged the great *****.
He gets it over with, He gets it done which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenge the blood of his servants at her hand. But I wanted to get a warning out of chapter 18 and verse four, which I take to be a present day warning for any who are caught in the system that men have set up and made it great. And if you want to count the number of times that great.
Is used in referring to Babylon. I think you'll find it 11 Times.
Now, God never intended the church to be a great thing.
And she would never have become that great thing outwardly before the eyes of men.
If she had been faithful instead of that, she would have ended up wholly and true.
So if anybody's caught in that system, get out of it.
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That you don't become partakers of our sins. That you receive, not of our plagues. Now in chapter 19 again.
There's this Alleluia and this chapter we get Hallelujah.
And the smoke of her rose up forever and ever. Verse three, The four and 20 elders and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne, saying Amen, Hallelujah.
The scenes in heaven.
And the voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God on all ye his servants, ye that fear him both small and great.
And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters.
And of the voice of mighty thundering, saying Hallelujah for the Lord omnipotent reigneth. Now look what it says.
Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come.
And his wife hath made herself ready. We're getting.
An order of things that will take place and in the.
This bride.
Has made herself ready.
It means that she has passed the judgment seat of Christ.
Because it goes on and says and to her was granted verse 8.
That she should be arrayed in fine linen. Clean and white were the fine linen is the righteousnesses. It should be plural of Saints.
So after the judgment of the great poor, the false church, then in heaven.
There is the marriage of the lamb.
And she has passed the judgment seat of Christ in heaven, and is arrayed in everything that can reflect glory and honor to Christ, who has bordered with His precious blood.
Verse nine he said unto me, write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
We want this because there are others.
There that marriage who don't pertain to the bride, the Lambs wife.
We will refer to John the Baptist as being one of them.
He said He that standeth and heareth the bridegroom's voice, He that half the bride is the bridegroom, but he that standeth and heareth his voice, this my joy is fulfilled. So there'll be others in that heavenly company besides the bride, but there will be the bride. That's special relationship which we will try to get through to develop a little later.
So there are others that are cold. Well, John fell at his feet to worship him.
That's the Angel. And he said, see thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant.
Angels are servants too. Are you a servant goddess?
Giving to Christ by His Angel is showing to us things that must shortly be done.
Are we interested? Let's try and get it a little out of it.
But this angle says I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus worship God. We had that this morning worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Now this little key that we have read here just now come just before the manifestation and it teaches us how to read and apply this book.
You could turn that around and say.
The Spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus, therefore, I said.
Prophecy always looks on to the glory of Christ. He is the fulfillment of it in God's thought. Christ Himself is that God has determined that His Son shall be the center of glory in heaven and on the earth.
It will be done, and God's prophecy is not over with until it is done.
Now we're going to get.
The way it comes in and it comes in with the coming.
Of this writer on the White Horse, verse 11. Now this is the time of the manifestation, and I saw heaven. Oh heavens open, what's it for? For Christ to come out this thundering is this platform down here. I heard it yesterday and wondered why.
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Let's not let it disturb us. We get thunderings and lightnings in this book too. Maybe it alerts.
I saw heaven opened, and behold a White Horse, and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true.
In righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. His name is called the Word of God. There's no doubt about the writer on this horse.
The word of God.
Now notice verse 14 and the armies which were.
In heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Brethren, if Christ is going to ride a White Horse in the symbol, you and I are going to ride white horses too. You come out and share in His victory. He's going to lead on the victory, and we won't have to do one thing. He puts everything down by the word of His mouth, the sword that proceeds out.
Oh, what a God we have.
And God is here showing it out and out of his mouth to go with a sharp sword.
That with it he shall smite the nations, he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
He credits the wine Press of the fierceness and wrath.
Of Almighty God, let us clench to who it is. Verse 16 He hath.
On his master and on his thy name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Now, this is one vision. There are eight of them. We're going to get here and they are appreciated with these words. And I saw verse 11 and I saw we're going to count those out 11 Times. They are in sequence, They happen.
Following one another, they're in order. God's a God of order. Even if he wants order in our assembly and is provided for it, God is always a God of order. He's going to bring Christ out and put down his enemies in order until the whole thing is done.
But he brings us with him. But he does all the battle now.
What's the next one? Verse 17 and I saw an Angel standing in the sun.
Supreme Author And he cried with a loud voice, saying To all the fowls that fly in the midst of the heaven, Come and gather yourselves together under the supper of the great God, that he may eat the flesh of kings.
And the flesh of captains.
And the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses.
And of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bomb.
Both small and great. Here's the next vision.
Tremendous judgments.
Executed by the one who has come to put down.
All authority and a judge.
And to consume it so it mentions.
The Supper of the great God.
And.
In.
Looking back, we had the marriage supper of the lamb.
There are four suppers particular that are mentioned in scripture.
The Gospel Supper, of which I hope everyone of you has already eaten and partaken.
And there is the Lord's Supper. Did you partake of that today?
And if you're at the marriage of the lamb, you'll partake of that marriage supper of the lamb. The rest of the people are going to come in and the supper of the great God be consumed off the face of the earth. That's the symbolic language of this book. Now we have another anti saw in verse 19.
And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse.
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And against his army.
And the beast was taken.
And with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him.
With which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast.
And them that had worshipped his image, These both were cast alive into a lake of fire.
Burning with brimstone. This is hell, this is Hyena, the lake of fire. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse.
Which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. Judgment, judgment, judgment. God is in the person of Christ, going to cleanse the whole thing.
Before he takes it in glory. Observers of this.
Then we get the 4th and I saw in chapter 20.
And I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit.
And a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil.
And Satan bound them 1000 years.
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and set a seal upon him.
That he should deceive the nations no more.
Till the 1000 years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed for a little season.
Now Christ catches.
He's already taken care of the two beasts, the false prophet and the Antichrist. Now it catches the arch enemy, the dragon, that old serpent and the devil and Satan, and he binds him. He doesn't do away with him yet. He he puts them in prison in the abyss for 1000 years.
In order to.
Bring in a scene of blessedness for man on the earth.
With no deceiver to tempt him. And we shall see. With a perfect government, there's going to be one more thousand years of the flesh being tested in the millennial day. We're going to that.
Now verse four. And I saw a throne. Then they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them.
And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded, for the witness of Jesus were the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark in upon their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ 1000 years, but the rest of the dead lived up again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first.
Resurrection.
We'll go on. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection, on sex the second death.
Hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him.
1000 years and when the 1000 years.
Are expired, St. shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the bridge of the earth, encompassed the camp of the Saints about, and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire.
And brimstone, where the beast and the false proven are.
And shall be tormented day and night forever. We have read the 5th vision beginning with verse four and it begins with the first resurrection. I hope we can get peace about this fourth verse.
For it goes back to First Corinthians 15, the verse that says.
Christ the first fruits.
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Afterwards they that are Christ at his coming.
So the first fruits of the first resurrection is already there. Those verses we had in the end of the last meeting brought it before so gloriously. There is a man there. The man Christ Jesus is there. He is the first fruit. If the first fruits is there, the rest of the first fruits will get there. Kind of divided up into little companies that get into this.
But first of all, I saw Thrones and they sat upon them in furs.
That we.
Are in the first fruits of that first resurrection.
Already they are seated on Thrones and they have been there.
For some little time.
Waiting for the judgments.
Which will kill.
A few of God's faithful remnants in the Tribulation, and yes, in the Tribulation period, who lose their portion on the earth.
And so they get into this first resurrection, 2 little companies, the first half and the second-half, and they lived and reigned with Christ 1000 years. That finishes up the first resurrection. Nobody else gets into heaven after that, but some of them are left in faithfulness to go on on the earth, because God is going to have an earthly company blessed down here for 1000 years under a perfect government with no devil to bother them.
Then we're going to save. There's going to be a new heaven and a new earth in the day of eternity.
So we're getting on in these visions. Let's go a little farther. Verse 11, chapter 20. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. This is just a vision of a great white throne out in space, no foundation there it is.
The final judgment.
Of all the wicked dead takes place then and goes on set so and I saw the dead.
Small and great stand before God.
It's kind of a resurrection, but it's the second death and the books were opened and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of the things which were.
Written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them.
And they were judged every man according to their works, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
A new server was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Second proof. This concludes all judgment.
All judges, it's all over him. All the wicked dead judge what's left. The day of God, the day of eternity.
And that's #8.
And I saw verse 21, I'll refer that in creation there were seven days of creation, and there is a reference to the 8th day, which is new creation. You'll find the same number in Leviticus 23 in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles. There was an eighth day. We have read 7 and I saw we've got one more and it's the day of God, it's the day of eternity. We read 7 verses here.
And I saw a new heaven on a new earth, where the 1St heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, Holy city. Notice that New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Now this is 1000 years later.
And she still looks like a bride. There's no aging in heaven.
All the best is yet to come, brethren, and we're getting close to heaven.
Actually, I don't think there's any time in heaven, but we can't think apart from time.
But this is the day of God. This is the day of eternity and after the 1000 years of the millennial reign.
She still appears as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with me and.
And he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them.
They're gone, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.
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He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new or brand new. He said unto me, Right for these words are true and faithful. He said unto me, It is done. I am helping Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give it to him that happened. That is the thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Finally, brethren, the inheritance is every created thing. That's the heritage that's coming up for us. All that belongs to Christ is ours.
And we be fully overcomers. Then there is one more verse.
That has to do with eternity. I'll read it.
Interesting. It's the eighth verse. But the fearful, an unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and ************ and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part.
In the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.
This is the second death how some is the word of God. Now we get a change. We've had a coming down in sequence of all that lies ahead. Now in the ninth verse he takes us back and he shows us.
The bride, the Lamb's wife, How glorious it is. Verse 9.
There came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven miles full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come, hit her, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife on that verse I want to point out.
A little interesting thing about I will.
That's the determinant will of God.
I will, and this is the last time it's mentioned in the Bible. Let's go to the first time in Genesis.
Because it has a comparative sense.
And it's in the second chapter of Genesis.
And here we have Adam.
He is alone on the earth.
In verse 18.
When God takes an interest in that lonely man.
And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone. I will.
Make him and help me for him. This is the first I will. It has to do with the bride of the first man. Now back to our channel. This I will has to do with the bride of the 2nd man, the man out of heaven, Christ Jesus.
Come hit her, I will show thee the bride, the Lambs wife.
Now let's try to get from Scripture an indication which I think is good enough to tell us who the Bride is over in the next chapter.
22 We'll read the beginning of verse 17.
And the Spirit and the Bride say come.
I believe that's going on right now.
And we'll go back in thought without reading it.
To Abraham.
Wanting a bride for Isaac, his son.
So he gets the servant and sends him to get the bride.
For Isaac and he goes to Abraham's people.
And he gets Rebecca.
And he brings her.
And as they close up that chapter.
The journey is just over with and it says Isaac.
Went out into the field to meditate at evening time.
That's Christ.
Coming for.
The bride.
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But the two were there, and the Holy Spirit is here.
A picture of the servant and no St. No one St. is the bride.
Every St. is in the bride.
And here the Spirit and the Bride say, come it.
Is the church.
And when he sees her?
In the next verse.
He carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that.
I'm going to leave off great. That city, the Holy Jerusalem. Great does not belong here. Holiness is the characteristic of the heavenly Jerusalem, not greatness.
Descending out of heaven from God, her origin from God, and her character.
Out of heaven.
So it's again, it's Christ coming.
With the Church to take the throne of the earth. And she has.
The glory of God having the glory of God.
Now let's go back to Isaiah chapter 65.
We had that part of that third of Jeremiah read to us about.
Israel.
And I believe the earthly Jerusalem is the center of.
Israel on Earth.
And in the 65th of Isaiah.
We have the earthly Jerusalem.
If we can go on in our 21St chapter, we'll find the heavenly Jerusalem.
Now, in that coming day of the Millennium.
There will be a heavenly city over the earthly city.
Intimately connected.
That the heavenly people can look down and see what goes on on earth.
The earthly people know a little of what's up there. I say this because of Luke 16.
At the mount of Transfiguration.
And the Lord took the three Peter, James, and John.
And it was transfigured before them.
There appeared unto them.
Two men which were Moses and Elias talking with them.
And their conversation was about the cross, his decease, which he should accomplish.
Now the Lord in that Transfiguration scene has given us a millennial picture.
With the heavenly city over the earth. Peter, James and John on the earth.
Seeing the Lord in His glory.
Seeing and talking with apparently Moses and Elias.
Well, the scene doesn't last.
It's going to last 1000 years when it's fulfilled with the heavenly city over the earthly city.
But lastly, it says they feared as they entered into the cloud that is Peter, James and John.
They saw men going into the glory of God.
And they couldn't see any further.
Well, these are terms that are put in the Bible for us to enjoy.
That heavenly city and there's going to be government in it.
As long as we're in Isaiah 65, let's go to 66 and get.
The last two verses. You all may read these two chapters.
To get a picture of the earthly Jerusalem, I'll say that Christ is going to have two brides. He's going to have an earthling and he's going to have a heavenly, but it gets the heavenly first.
That could be any day now.
We're going to be.
Adorned as a bride, adorned for her husband when we're caught up there.
And he's not going to take up the earth until after he cleanses with all those judgments. And when the 1000 years are over, then he's going to bring in the Millennium. And this is what we see in heaven, in Revelation. This is what we see on earth.
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In Isaiah, and they're going to be a company that go up to Jerusalem in the last two verses of the book. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another, when one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. This is going to be a regular thing on the earth for Israel to go to the earthly Jerusalem to worship.
And as blessed as a scene as it is, it is not an absolute perfection in which God can rest.
There is going to be daily millennial judgment. I recommend you read Zephaniah 3 to get something more about that.
Till we read the last verse, Christ is going to reign in righteousness. Behold a king.
Shall reign in righteousness and Princess in judgment. You and I are going to reign with Christ. That's Isaiah 32. What's going to happen? They shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me. I say God is going to test man another thousand years with a perfect government and no devil to deceive, and the flesh is going to come out this way.
They're going to be sinners.
And they're going to be judged.
Then the bodies are going to be there to warn the others that are still on the earth.
Those that have transgressed to me for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flag.
But in the heavenly city she will be over the earthly city.
And it will be perfection, and we shall be there.
An understanding the righteous reign of Christ.
And his glory that comes out that way.
We won't.
Take any further in Revelation 21, but I'll mention a measurement that's there.
Uh.
I don't see the measurements.
But it's a distance that is equal to.
Vancouver.
Crossed the northern border of the US till you get to the Great Lakes, then S that far.
Then back West that far. Then back N that part to the point of beginning and that high.
That's the measurement that's given of the heavenly city.
Now God gives us these things to understand the grandeur.
Of the glory that is coming for 1000 years on this earth.
Then Christ sat up there. I say the end of prophecy is the glory of Christ and us with Him sharing in that ring. Can we sing the next hymn in the book? 312 soon.
Righteousness shall rule. Oh yes.
The king shall reign in righteousness. Satan's power restrained, he won't have any power for 1000 years.
Jesus, Jehovah be the King, or Jews and Gentiles reign. I want to say a little more about Jews and Gentiles.
To bring out the picture of the plan of God that God began with.
Adam and nations formed.
And then?
The call out of one man to form another nation in Abraham.
So that we may say God began with men or nations or the Gentiles.
Then he brought in. That went on for about 2000 years because Abraham was born in 1996.
BC.
And then Abraham's race, Jacob's race, Israel.
Went on up to the cross under the test, which lasted another 2000 years.
So it was first Gentiles, then it was Israel.
Then the church comes in on Pentecost. We have been referring to that, and our history on earth has been another 2000 years.
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Brethren, that completes the six days of creation.
Before the 7th day of Sabbath, which was a kind of rest.
We're just about to the end of another Millennium, but at the end of this time the church disappears before the next thousand years. But Christ reigned, as this hymn says.
Or Jews and Gentiles reign and then we have carried you in the day of eternity. Behold the Tabernacle, the habitation of God with men. God gets back to God and men in perfection. He started with God and man, innocence and all this history in between. God forgets nothing. How interesting is this plan? Let's sing #313 please.
Some righteousness shallow.
My love.
Our God, we thank thee.