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Molly yogis

Well, we are now in our 24 of our Learn the Bible in 24, our project, which is basically

just an opportunity to come to some conclusions, take a broad review of what we've covered

over the last 24 sessions, the last 23 sessions.

We obviously have gone through the entire Old Testament, starting with the Torah, and

through the historical books, the poetical books, major and minor prophets.

As we did, we generally did try to develop a broad perspective on the one hand, and yet

I tried as we went along to pick up a few of the details.

The truth is in the details.

You may recall, we noted that if you take every 49th letter in the book of Genesis, it spells

the name Torah, interestingly enough.

If you do the same thing in Exodus, the first vow, first vav, first rush, every 49 letters,

again, spells Torah.

In Leviticus, it doesn't happen.

In Numbers, of course, it does, but backwards of all things.

Same thing with Deuteronomy, if the equivalent kind of thing occur.

And this is a mystery.

Why on earth is this here?

Is this by accident?

I don't think so.

Is it by design?

I guess so.

But what does it prove?

Well, Leviticus, let's take a look at Leviticus.

We discover that every seventh letter, not seventh squared, but every seventh letter,

spells out the unpronounceable name of God, which the rabbis typically say, Yod He, Vod

He, or Yehovah, or people have different ways of rendering it, but basically the tetra-gamatine.

Well, now when we stand back from this design, we notice that Torah is spelled forward in

the first two books and backwards and last two books.

In Leviticus, it highlights the fact that the Torah always points to the name of God.

Now this is not a big deal except it's a flag to alert us to the fact that underneath

the text is design.

And these designs, in some cases, very profound.

We'll touch on a few of those.

Very early in our review, we talked about the nature of time and we got into the physics

of that.

But the main point is that in our 20th century science heritage, we now know that time is

a physical property.

It varies with mass acceleration and gravity, among other things.

And that means that we exist in more than three dimensions.

In fact, the physicists now tell us probably ten dimensions.

But the main point is that God uses His ability to be outside time altogether, to validate

His message to us.

And if we think of time as linear, we think of eternity as starting an infinity on the

left, going to infinity on the right, or putting that into our space, if you can visualize

this curve as a three-dimensional space, we are in the present behind us as the past,

ahead of us as the future.

For us, life is a sequence of events.

But to someone who is outside time in eternity, he can see the past, the present future,

simultaneously.

And this is an attribute of God alone.

But he uses that to authenticate the message He sends us.

He proves it that it's really from Him by writing history before it happens.

We call that prophecy in one sense.

But we find it also in subtle sense.

Much of the Bible makes no sense except as history finally plays out.

The brazen serpent is an example of that in Numbers 21.

Makes no sense until you get to John 3 and so forth.

So we also talked about this stretch factor of the universe, as it's commonly thought

of.

Is the universe 15, 16 billion years old or was it created in six days?

And it turns out the expansion factor of 10 to the 12th, which is widely accepted,

is in fact simply the same expansion factor if you render it in terms of the mass, the

mass of the earth versus the mass of the universe.

You take that ratio that six times 10, the 12th days, renders down to six days, if you

will.

That's one rendering by Dr. Gerald Schroeder.

But there's other considerations.

The main point is I believe in a six day creation, literal days, because God intends

us to understand that, not from Genesis but from Exodus 12, 20 verse 11.

So we talked a lot about that.

We talked about information measures, the difference between order and disorder, noise

and signal, cacophony, music and chaos and cause.

These are opposites.

On the left we have disorder.

We have entropy, which is a way of saying randomness.

And on the right we have information.

And there are opposites to each other in a sense.

So they are different.

And things are always flowing towards randomness.

Their universe is winding down.

It takes external input to create order or information.

And that speaks to a creation, a definitive creation.

The Darwinists cannot explain the origin of life because they can't explain the origin

of information.

That's really the issue, not the biology of it.

We made an entropy profile of the universe.

And we noticed that the entropy, it randomness is the bottom orders at the top in this little

diagram.

And so we, the word out of speaks of obscurity or disorder and the word bokeh, of being orderly

or discernible, they ultimately come to me in evening and morning.

But what we really have is an out of a bokeh defining the first day of creation.

And light was created and so forth.

And then we went to the second day out of a bokeh and we had the properties of space

emerge.

And then we had the land and visitation.

And then we had the sun and the moon and the stars.

And then we had the birds and the fish and so forth.

And then we finally had in the sixth day animals, Mr. and Mrs. Mann and so forth.

What's provocative about this, of course, is in the seventh day there is no out of a

bokeh.

It's not only in evening and morning, but the point is the ereven bokeh or the reduction

of entropy, the insertion of structure and design had ceased.

It was completed at the end of the sixth day.

And so the scripture tells us.

But then we get to a huge discontinuity, the fall of man in chapter three, in which we

have a decay.

We have a huge disruption of the original creation.

Everything we know about the universe is post-curse.

Post, you know, post, yeah, curse.

Because God declares war on Satan for his exploits here.

That starts the scar to thread.

God promises that he would redeem the world through the seed of the woman.

It's a hint of the virgin birth.

It's going to come from mankind.

It's going to be a man to do this.

In fact, from a specific nation that Abraham was called to do, Jacob, the tribe, and David,

the family, and so forth.

And so as the scripture goes, it sequentially focuses on God's plan of redemption.

And as he focuses, Satan tries to disrupt it.

We even took a look at the proper names and the genealogy of Genesis 5 and discovered

interestingly enough that there's a sentence, man is appointed mortal sorrow.

But the blessed God shall come down, teaching that his death shall bring the despairing

comfort arrest.

Praise God.

So here we have the summary of the Christian gospel tucked away in a genealogy in the Torah,

astonishingly enough.

Well, of course, we got into the fallen angels in the Nephilim and all of that.

We talked about Noah's ark and the realities of it.

And the other thing that we're going to do is to bring the Holy Spirit to the end of

the earth to the end of the earth.

And then we're going to bring the Holy Spirit to the end of the earth.

And that we talked about Noah's ark and the realities of it.

Its displacement being equivalent to at least 500, maybe twice that railroad cars and equivalent

space for 125,000 sheep when you've got only about 18,000 species to deal with.

It sounds quite much more comfortable than it does on the face of it.

We also covered the reasons why we don't think that Mount Ararat is a vile in Turkey, is a

viable site for the violets.

But the scripture would tend to argue that they came from the east to Babal, which means

that somewhere the real Mount Ararat is probably in Iran somewhere.

And we will not be surprised if some of the attempts to find it will surface in the coming

years.

But then we of course talked about the call of Abraham and his family, how he married

his half-sister and had Ishmael as well as Isaac and how as the family grows and so

forth.

These relationships are important.

He has a nephew by the name of Lot that becomes very prominent in Genesis.

We talked about that.

Under Matthew, we had Rebecca who becomes the bride of Isaac and from whom we have Esau

and Jacob, Esau being the forebear of the Edomites, the enemies of Israel.

And some of these tensions we see in the world today have their roots way back in the

Genesis time period.

And of course also to Bethu O'odham, addition to Rebecca who had Laban and Laban has to lay

on Rachel, two daughters that marry into Jacob.

So we have the whole scenario of the patriarch start to lay out the book of Genesis that

went through.

And so on it goes.

Under the patriarchs, we took some time to really understand Abraham and who had Esau

through Hagar, not Sarah.

Or Sarah we had Isaac and whom marries Rebecca and has, again, Jacob.

And again we have the key line from which come the twelve tribes.

The line through lay on Rachel, lay has the fore and then Rachel gives her handmaid

to have two more down and after all.

And then lay out figures, that's a good idea.

I'll do the same thing with Zilpa so there's a couple there.

And by this time Rachel finally has a child, Joseph, and then lay out two more.

And then finally Rachel has Benjamin but dies in childbirth.

But Rachel is the one, Jacob loved Rachel more than life itself.

And so obviously Joseph was very favored and becomes the prime minister of the world

through the incredible drama that finishes the last few chapters of the book of Genesis.

He has two sons that get adopted by Jacob as he adopts his grandsons as we would call

them.

So you have thirteen potential tribes so you can always have twelve by dropping.

If you have to drop one out, that leaves a lot of confusion.

It comes later.

As for the other descendants of Abraham under Esau who marries into, marries with the sons

of Ishmael, but it's interesting that ones that are truly Arabs are really sons of Katura,

not even Hagar as well as Sarah.

Certainly not Sarah, but not even Hagar interestingly enough.

They really come from Katura and from Jokshan we have Saudi Arabia and from Midian we have

the Bedouins and such.

So the whole issue of Arabs is an issue.

Something else getting back to some of the subtleties we pointed out as we went through,

we noticed that in 49 letter intervals we have a very interesting genealogy tucked away

in Genesis 38.

We have Boaz and 49 letter intervals, then we have Ruth and 49 letter intervals, and then

we have Obad and 49 letter intervals, and then we have Ishae or Jesse and 49 letter intervals,

and then we have David and 49 letter intervals.

And what's astonishing about this, this is Boaz, Ruth, Obad, Jesse and David in chronological

order, centuries before the fact.

This is in the book of Genesis.

This is long before Moses and all of that.

And so the chances of this happen.

I mentioned this, not that it's a big deal except be aware of the fact that there are

discoveries laying just beneath the surface of the text that highlight its supernatural

origins.

So the text anticipates the lineage of David several centuries in advance.

David did not come as a surprise or an afterthought that was God's plan from the beginning.

And so anyway we went through the Torah, the book of beginnings.

We took the birth of the nation in Exodus.

We looked at the book of holiness, the law of the nation, and then we talked about numbers,

their wanderings would be due to a lack of faith.

And then finally Moses is, Moses is three epistles that make up the book of Deuteronomy, his final

review and comments on the whole thing before he dies.

But then we went through the historical books, Joshua and the conquest of Canaan, judges the

next 300 years where they really snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory by not following

through what Joshua had started.

And then we have Ruth, this incredible little fourth chapter book that reveals to us the

role and background of the kinsman Redeemer.

Very essential when we get to the book of Revelation.

Then we had first Samuel, the birth of the kingdom, and then for second Samuel the reign

of David himself.

And then the kingdom divided under Solomon and then the history of that divided kingdom.

Chronicles is a review of both of those with special emphasis on David and the southern

kingdom.

But we have basically the monarchy there from first Samuel through to Chronicles.

First Samuel being the bridge between the judges and the monarchy period.

So we went through the whole background of history here with Genesis covering a huge

part of history from the creation all the way up to the Exodus and then the rest of

the Old Testament from there through the monarchy period.

Then the four centuries of what they call the silent period and the New Testament is so

different than the Old Testament it occurs in just one lifetime.

But boy what a lifetime it is.

And so we have that perspective.

The monarchy of course was we went through that rather hurriedly but the best we could

with the time.

Saul started with such promise but ended in failure.

We had David who was the key to all things in many respects.

And then Solomon who started well but again failed.

It's interesting you look at Saul or Solomon or many others finishing well as the name of

the gain.

And so we have the first second Samuel, first second king sometimes called first second,

third and fourth kings and some bibles.

But in any case Elijah being the first kings, the life share and the second kings is at

the break point there.

Chronicles being a repeat of second Samuel through second kings from the point of view

primarily the southern kingdom.

But we went through the prophets, the various prophets that we also as we went along and

saw the building of the temple we noted the differences between it and the tabernacle that

are very profound.

The same basic architecture but adding the elements of the porch, the pillars and the

hidden chambers.

And many lessons out of this that we touched upon and how the basic tabernacle model, the

body, the soul, the heart and the spirit seem to be profiled.

And seven times in the scripture God says you are the temple of God.

What does he mean by that?

Committee lessons here that are well amplified by our little briefing called the architecture

of man but perhaps more profoundly by my wife's book trilogy, the way of agape and the books

that followed.

The fact that the porch is there is our willpower, very key issue and the subconscious being

implied by these wooden chambers and so forth.

Sounds strange at first and encourages I review all that.

But after the monarchy we get to the historical books.

Those are the return from captivity from the Babylonian captivity and Nehemiah the rebuilding

of Jerusalem and the scene of the famous thing, the fulfillment of the day of 70 weeks or 69

of the 70 weeks.

And between Ezra and Nehemiah actually occur Esther from which the escape from being exterminated.

Very dramatic, dramatic story.

We went through the poetical books, not too expositionally too much.

We talked about Job at least in the central points and Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes

and so forth.

The Messianic details in the Psalms are astonishing.

You don't think of the Psalms as a book of prophecy but they really are.

They're more than just the hymns.

There's an enormous amount of details about Jesus person, that he's the son of God, son

of man and son of David, as emphasized by many of them.

His office's prophet, Priest and King are emphasized by many of them.

But his Messianic profile is astonishing.

He's speaking parables, he'd calm storms, he'd be despised, rejected, mocked, whipped,

derided, he would be impaled on a cross, he'd be thirsty, he'd be given wine mixed with

gall, lots of cast for his garments, not a bone would be broken.

All these are detailed in the Psalms.

He was astonishing precision, he'd rise from the dead, he'd send to heaven, he'd be at

the right hand of God, he's the high priest, he'll judge the nations, his reign would

be eternal.

He's the son of God and also the son of David, people would sing, and sing, and bless forever

and would come into glory in the last days.

All this isn't laid there.

The coming of his kingdom is mentioned in Psalm 46 through tribulation, the range of

his kingdom, all the earth in Psalm 47, the center of his kingdom, Psalm 48.

So 46, 47, 48 are a trilogy on the coming range and center of the coming kingdom of

the Messiah.

Well, without going through all the other poetic literature that was in the Bible,

we touched on it, but then we got the major prophets in rich material.

We spent a whole session just on Isaiah, the Messianic prophet, and then we tried to get

most of the others.

We spent a special time on Samuel also because he's half history and half prophets.

Twelve key points in Isaiah.

Just Isaiah 53, he comes in absolutely loins, he was a spodged, rejected of man, he suffered

for sins in the place of ourselves that God himself caused the suffering to be vicarious.

All these are descriptions not from Paul's, he pistols from the book of Isaiah chapter

53.

This is absolute resignation, he opened not his mouth.

The description there is astonishing in Isaiah 50, he died as a felon from prison and from

judgment.

He was cut off prematurely out of the land of the living.

He was personally guiltless, no violence and receipt in his mouth.

He was to live after, he was to live on after his sufferings, he'd grow along his days.

Jehovah's pleasure would prosper in his hand and so forth.

The mighty would triumph after his suffering.

But all this God would justify many of the scripture says.

All this is in the Old Testament centuries before, Isaiah 53.

And hidden behind the text within those twelve verses are the names of the people that are

at the foot of the cross.

You've got Pharisee, Levites, Caiaphas, Anas, the man Herod and so forth.

And all kinds of words that are relevant but perhaps most astonishing, the disciples

that were mourning.

Peter, Matthew, John, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, two Jameses, not three because one was not

a believer until after the resurrection.

Simon, Thaddeus, Matthias, three Marys are there and one of them is entangled with the

reference to John and Salomian Joseph.

Just amazing, these are encrypted within twelve verses.

The people of the cross were even more astonishing is a name that should occur statistically just

because of the frequency of the letters within that sequence of test that is conspicuous

in its absence.

That's the name of Judas.

Well, we got to Daniel, talked about Daniel chapter two and the strange metallic dream

that Nebuchadnezzar had but then also the series of visions that Daniel would have later

in his life and how they paralleled with each other, both of them profiling the history

of Gentile dominion on the planet earth right up to the end where it's interrupted by God's

own kingdom being set up.

So we went through all of that.

And of course, we can't zip through even on a summary basis without pointing out the

sixty-nine weeks.

This incredible prophecy penned five centuries in advance that was translated into Greek three

centuries in advance about that Gabriel tells Daniel the exact day that Jesus would present

himself as a king to Jerusalem.

Well, the commander started Jerusalem to the Messiah, the king would be sixty-nine weeks

of years.

And that turns out to be exactly right to the very day.

And this is all in the Septuagint.

Penn translated into Greek three centuries before it happens.

And Gabriel's margin for error is zero.

It works out when one takes the trouble to get into the precision to the very day.

Getting to Ezekiel, there's all kinds of things in Ezekiel that of course perhaps most eminent

on our horizon is the famous Magog invasion which can very well happen in our near future.

Magog and his allies are listed there.

It's famous for two reasons God will intervene on behalf of Israel rather dramatically.

And also it appears to describe the use of nuclear weapons.

So it's much studied among prophecy buffs today because there's an expectation by people

in the strategic community that this could be on our near horizon.

And each one of these is a study and it's right.

Penn went to the so-called minor prophets not because they're less important because

they happen to be physically smaller.

Major and minor are librarians categorization, not in significance.

Oseah talks about the apostasy of the northern kingdom and his book is an incredible indictment

by parallelism with America because exactly the predicament of the northern kingdom is

very parallel to America and the remedy may be the same.

Joel's major source of information about the day of the Lord, the final climax forthcoming.

Penn must emphasize the ultimate rule of David.

Obadiah talks about the enemies of Israel, the destruction of Edom.

But you need to understand that the Edomites is generic for all of Israel's enemies, always

has been.

And they would celebrate anytime Israel got put down.

The word as you, the more you study the Edomites and the whole history, the more you recognize

it becomes a synonym for Israel's enemies.

Obadiah has much to talk about that.

And Jonah, of course, was led to the repentance of Nineveh and an incredible book and also

very relevant to our day.

Ten miracles in that book, but the most impressive one is not the fish thing.

It's the repentance from the king on down within 40 days that have heard a judgment.

Mike has many things in it, but we know it best probably because of the birth in Bethlehem

and so forth.

He also identifies the source of the Antichrist and some other interesting things in Micah.

Name was also from Galilee to Nineveh, but this time Nineveh doesn't repent in 722.

They disappear from history.

And they weren't rediscovered in history until 1849, strangely enough.

Maybe you'll thought it was just a legend.

Habakkuk has many interesting things, mainly about why does God use bad people to even

judge some of the people that aren't where they should be?

In other words, he's really troubled that God will use sometimes very evil people to

accomplish his judgments.

But also in Habakkuk is this plea that the just shall live by faith, which becomes the

watchword of the Reformation and it's also the subject of three epistles as a trilogy

on that subject.

And that's why we believe that Paul wrote Hebrews.

The Hebrews, Romans and Galatians are a trilogy of that.

Zephaniah is a number of little nuggets, but not the least of which it predicts that not

only will Israel be regathered, but when they do they'll speak pure Hebrew.

And that sounded preposterous until May 14th of 1948.

And obviously the Hebrew in Israel today is a pure Hebrew.

Hagai focuses on the frustrations in rebuilding the temple.

He's after Raya has all kinds of nuggets about the second coming.

So very timely stuff.

And then Malachi is the final message to an disobedient people, but he also has a secret

revealed in there that's the solution to all financial problems.

But as you go through the study of these, the minor prophets, we can, one of the things

we won't take the time to review in detail now, but to understand that the prophets are

not in chronological order.

As you study them, try to understand which prophet prophesied under which king.

And as you double back on these things and do your homework, try to relate them to the

context in which they were prophesying.

And so Hagai and the days of Ezra and Zechariah, the days of Nehemiah, and of course Malachi

at the very, very end.

So in the silent years are profiled for you in advance in Daniel 11.

So that's the Old Testament.

When you finish the Old Testament, the one thing you're hit with is that there are unexplained

ceremonies left, sacrificial rituals that are not explained.

You have unachieved purposes.

You have all these covenants.

What for?

Some conditional, some unconditional.

You have unappased longings.

The poetical books are full of things they're yearning for that have yet to be fulfilled.

And the prophecies, of course, are incomplete.

It's important to really taste and appreciate the fact that the Old Testament is incomplete

by itself.

There's something missing.

And what's missing, of course, is the New Testament.

Jesus challenges you in John 539.

He says, search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life.

And he's referring to the Old Testament to them.

He's talking when he's saying that.

Search the scriptures.

For in them you think you have eternal life and they are they which testify of what?

He.

That's his boast.

And indeed they do.

And when you discover that for yourself it will change your whole perspective.

We talked a little bit about the history of the English Bible, how the Hebrew Verloga

became translated into Greek, the Septuagint Greek.

The consoliumnia led to the Masoretic text, but meanwhile the Greek text primarily.

And some of the old Latin stuff led to the Texas Receptus which Jerome rendered in the

Colgate and ultimately the Texas Receptus becomes the primary set of documents for

the King James.

The King James translators, just like Tyndale, they had about 5,000 different manuscripts.

They leaned heavily on the so-called the received text as they say.

But the problem was that the Alexandrian texts which were highly venerated for some reasons

led to many of the new translations, NIV and others.

The more recent years they recognized the Alexandrian text were tampered with by the

Gnostics which is causing many scholars to go back and respect more highly the Texas Receptus

sources.

But we talked a little bit about that.

We have to dwell on it here.

We got to the New Testament again, it has five books up front, just like the Torah in the

Old Testament.

Mathematic Luke and John, but Luke in two volumes, Luke and Acts.

But instead of Deuteronomy which is Moses as Epistles, we have Paul's 13 Epistles plus

eight so-called Hebrew Christian Epistles.

Well, one I believe by Paul and then the others that are written by and for the Jewish believers.

James, Peter, Zeng, and Thurgine and Jude.

And having gone through all that, then of course we hit our capstone, the book of Revelation,

which wraps it all up in a climactic form.

But the Old Testament prophecies that are quoted in the Gospels are astonishing, that

the Messiah would be of David's family.

He'd be born of a virgin, he'd be born in Bethlehem, he'd be so during Egypt, he would

live in Galilee and specifically in Nazareth.

He'd be announced by Elijah like Harold.

He would occasion the massacre of Bethlehem's children.

He would proclaim a jubilee to the world.

His mission would include the Gentiles.

The secret that we're going to talk about is not that role of the Gentiles, it's something

else.

And the fact that his mission would include the Gentiles is all through Isaiah and other

places.

His ministry would be one of healing.

He would teach through up parables.

He would be disbelieved and rejected by his rulers.

That was predicted in Psalm 69 in 118 and Isaiah 6, 29 in elsewhere, 53.

He would make a triumphal entry in Jerusalem.

In fact, writing a donkey, Zechariah tells us he would be betrayed by a friend for 30

pieces of silver.

He'd be smitten like a shepherd.

He'd be given vinegar and gall.

He would cast lots for his garments.

His side would be pierced.

Not a bone would be broken.

He would die among malefactors, other criminals.

His dying words were foretold.

He would be buried by a rich man.

He would rise from the dead on the third day.

It's all through the Scripture.

His resurrection would be followed by destruction of Jerusalem and on it goes.

So it's amazing.

Now when we get to the gospels, we discovered and we talked about how they're structured.

Matthew being a Jew presents, emphasizes his presence as a messiah.

And that Mark, his emphasis is that he's a servant.

So he has no genealogy, no pedigree.

Matthew has a genealogy starting from the first Jew from Abraham down through the legal

line.

Luke being a doctor focuses on him as the son of man, his humanity.

His genealogy starts with Adam and he goes down through the blood line which turns out

to be Mary.

And John has a genealogy but it's hard to recognize because he's the son of God.

He has a genealogy of the pre-existent one.

And so Matthew says what Jesus said, very Jewish.

Mark what he did, Luke what he felt, John who he was.

And characteristically Matthew ends with a very Jewish thing, the resurrection.

Mark ends with the ascension.

Luke ends up with a promise of the Holy Spirit which sets him up for his sequel, the book

of Acts.

Then close in his book with the promise of his return and he sets up his sequel, the

book of Revelation.

And they also, interestingly enough, exemplify the four faces we see around the throne of

God, the lie on the ox, the man and the eagle as symbols of the Messiah, the son of man,

son of God.

Interesting enough.

Well the book of Acts of course had all the many key facts, the ascension, the birth

of the church, the first martyr, the stoning of Stephen.

Philip and the Ethiopian treasure which has secrets to it that are still being revealed.

As we close this meeting I'll be leaving for Ethiopia to celebrate Timcat there which is

a whole another, and we'll take the time in our summary to go into that right now.

And then we have the call of Saul of Tarsus.

Both Sauls and the Bible were Benjomites.

But this Saul becomes Paul and becomes the incredible human being, almost brilliant people

to walk the earth.

Peter's vision at Cornelius opens the gospel to the Gentiles, something that was unthought

of in some respects, became a big controversy for a while.

Mission of the Gentiles is really focused on in chapters 11 to 14 Acts, a climaxing in

the famous council for Jerusalem in which James by then has become a believer in a leader

of the church there and that gets resolved.

Then we get to the missionary journals, journeys, three of them.

The first throughout Galatia the second one to Europe, Athens, Mars, and the third one

recounting the first one as to strengthen those churches.

But as Acts comes to close we have the growing outcry against Paul before the Sanhedrin,

before Felix, before Phesus, before King of Gripper, where Paul finally plays his trump

card he appeals to Rome.

That brings him to Rome in which much is accomplished, interesting on that primarily

because the letters Paul wrote while he was there.

Treasures, everyone in the Pauline epistles.

It's so important we took Romans, it took a full hour in Romans because the definitive

statement of Christian doctrine, the gospel according to Paul as some people would call

it.

But then we went through the others, 1 Corinthians, order in the church, Galatians, law versus

grace, Ephesians, the mystery of the church.

It was Paul's privilege to reveal something that was hidden in the Old Testament, he makes

that point.

And many people have a problem in eschatology, they study the last things.

The real problem is that they have another homework about ecclesiology.

They don't understand what makes the church distinctive from all other periods of history.

Believers that are members of the church have privileges and aspects that were not available

for the Old Testament or after the Rapture.

There's a very strange set of benefits that we have, we need to understand.

And Philippians of course is resources in suffering, Colossians, Christ's preeminence

about all things.

The Thessalonians are the eschatological pistols, we left those for the next to the final session

to be part of eschatological review.

And Timothy and Titus basically letters to pastors.

Second Timothy's particular remarkable is Paul's last letter and Paul is about to die,

he knows he is, and he's encouraging Timothy.

I think it sounds a little backwards doesn't it?

Incredible guy, incredible letter.

And just precious, precious letters.

And Philemon is a little gem, a little tiny gem explaining intercession.

And it's almost like a miniature.

I always think of every art gallery as somewhere in there.

No matter how many great things they have, they always have room for some little special

miniature.

Philemon is that sort of treasure.

Then the non-pauline pistols that are sometimes looked at are the Hebrew Christian pistols.

It starts with Hebrews, it's unsigned, I believe it was written by Paul, but that's

neither here nor there.

It really emphasizes the new covenant.

It makes an argument for the Messiah's ship of Christ without relying on his apostolic

position strictly with rabbinical arguments from the Old Testament.

Contrasting the Messiah with angels, the Levitical priesthood, all the contrasts.

In each case, laying out how Christ is preeminent over all those things.

James' brother writes a letter that's very practical.

If you've got faith, let's see it demonstrated.

Many people misunderstand this pistol, I think he's talking about faith with works.

He's no, no, if you have faith, he expects to see it demonstrated by works.

You're not saved by faith, you're saved, I mean, you're not saved by your works, you're

saved by faith.

But if you have real faith, it should be bearing fruit.

So he's a fruit inspector.

First Peter's focusing on the persecuted church.

Second Peter's is focusing on the coming apostasy, just as Jude will.

And very important, Bissell's today, very descriptive of today.

John's epistle is one of those masterpieces.

John's, first John is really sermon notes on love.

Incredible, incredible letter.

Second John is a surprise to many because I believe you can prove it was written to

Mary.

But one of the subjects it touches on are false teachers.

And third John is just short little letter having to do with the preparation of helpers.

And Jude is a fascinating, final little letter on apostasy.

But it includes so many allusions and so much comment on the Old Testament that it gives

us illumination of all kinds of issues beyond the ones that we use making directly.

In the Old Testament we have Christ in prophecy which says, behold, He comes.

The gospels, as Christ in history, behold, He dies.

Acts is Christ in the church.

It says in effect, behold, He lives.

The epistles are Christ in experience, behold, He saves and sanctifies.

And the apocalypse says Christ coming in glory, behold, He reigns.

So that's the buildup.

And of course, the divine outline of the last book of the Bible is in verse 19 of the

first chapter, write the things which thou hast seen.

That's the vision of Christ that opens the first chapter.

The things which are which are seven letters of seven churches that we reviewed in some

depth, chapters two and three, the most important chapters for you and me probably in the book.

And the things which shall be metatauta hereafter, the things which follow after those things

which were the churches.

So that's the divine outline.

And we talked about the seven letters and we're intrigued how they parallel the seven

kingdom parables of Matthew 13.

And we also, the sower and the four soils, the fruit of the apostolic period.

We have a pergamos of the mustard seed where the mustard seed grows to be a tree that even

becomes a haven for the birds which were the enemies of Satan in the earlier parables.

Thyatara, the one in the leaven.

Thyatara having the Jezebel and the false doctrine.

The Philadelphia, the Pearl of Great Price, how Philadelphia is the church that was raptured,

the Pearl of Great Price being a very strange idiom for a Jewish rabbi to use to Jewish

disciples because oysters are not kosher.

But the Pearl is a jewel that is a response to irritation, that it grows by accretion

and is removed from its price of growth to become an item of adornment.

A very apt description of the church, interestingly enough.

And anyway, each one of these parallels are destructive to consider for yourself.

Check them out and see what you think.

It's also interesting to know that Paul wrote seven churches.

He wrote 13 signed epistles but three of those were doubles, first and second, whatever.

Well, Ephesus is pretty straightforward.

Caution to Ephesus was certainly heated by Ephesus by the time Jesus writes.

The only trouble was they had lost their first love.

Smurna is the suffering church and of course, Philippians resources in suffering.

Pergamos was a church that married the world and then, of course, is an idiomatic of Corinthians.

Thyatara, Galatians, Sardis, Romans, Philadelphia Thessalonians, the eschatological church and

the eschatological epistles and Laodicean Colossians and Colossians was indeed the

remedy for Laodicean.

They happened to be suburbs of one another.

So they instructed to exchange letters.

So it's kind of interesting.

Is there something to that?

You can only find out by studying yourself and coming to your own conclusions.

These are just observations that for your consideration.

But it's interesting that the seven letters of seven churches are interesting in that

they are not only local real churches, not only are they advice for all churches, but

they're also advice personally in a personal homeletic sense.

But they're also prophetic.

In the order they happened to be placed, the main theme of each one, fits church history.

Ephesus was the apostolic church, diligent on doctrine but ultimately failed to stay

devotionally committed.

Smurna was the persecuted church, the suffering church.

Smurna means mr, if you will.

The Pergamos was the marriage church, the one that had this perverted marriage, the

church married the world.

Big mistake.

Which led of course to the medieval church in which you have the queen of heaven running

things.

You have inquisitions.

The whole description of tire tire is astonishingly descriptive of the medieval church, out of

which of course comes a reformation but really denominationalism.

And Sardis is one of the two letters that has nothing good said about it.

Smurna and Philadelphia are the two letters that nothing bad said about it.

Four of the letters were, all of them were surprised I suspect, but two of them had nothing

good said about them, two of them had nothing bad said about them.

So I think there's a real lesson here.

I think all of us, if we really understood, would be surprised.

Philadelphia, of course, the missionary church.

It's one of the ones that had nothing bad said about it.

We're encouraging.

And Laodicea was the apostate church.

What's interesting about these seven letters is the first three have the promise to the

overcomer as a postscript.

And the last four have the promises of the overcomer in the body of the letter.

So they're distinctive in that sense.

The other, also, these last four include explicit references to the Lord's second coming, interestingly

enough.

And so one of them, Thyatira, is promised to be that it will go into the great tribulation.

It's a disturbing event.

One of them is promised that it would not see the time of trial or tribulation that's

coming on the earth.

And so one of the things you, what happens to Sardis and Aedesia is pabramatical.

I guess it'll depend on the individuals, of course.

So anyway, we then went to our view of eschatology in our summary.

Amillennialism, primillennialism.

We pointed out that your view of eschatology will really derive from your hominetics.

If you have a very tight hominetic, if you have a very high view of inspiration, if you

take the Bible very literally, you will lean to the right side of this diagram.

It will tend to be primillennial for sure and very likely, pre-tribulational.

That is, you'll believe that the church will be pulled out before the tribulation begins.

There are many people who are primillennial, but they try to be post-tribulational.

They think the church is going to go through the tribulation.

And it's our view that has too many problems.

But in any case, if you have a willingness to allegorize, if you treat these things just

symbolically, if you treat the Bible just a collection of instructive lessons rather

than any hard truth, you'll tend to be to the left side of this diagram.

You'll tend to be amillennial as most churches are, most denominations are amillennial and

post-tribulational.

The ultimate form of amillennialism is this prederism.

You see, many Christian leaders are saying, well, it's all fulfilled long ago because

they don't have a willingness to take the Scripture tightly.

We believe God means what He says and says what He means.

When we talked about the 70th week of Daniel on that fabric, we point out that the 70th

week is defined by the covenant being enforced by this world leader.

In the middle of that seven-year period, he's going to violate that covenant by setting

himself up to be worshiped.

That triggers a three and a half-year period that is labeled by Jesus Himself as the great

tribulation.

And that is interrupted, of course, by the second coming.

The question that comes at people and then, of course, He sets up His kingdom.

The dilemma comes among many, when does the rapture take place?

Many feel well it comes near the end.

They don't discern the difference between the rapture and the second coming.

We think that discernment is very clear in the Scripture which causes us to look at one

of the other places.

We tend to have the view.

It doesn't mean we're right.

We believe that the rapture will occur prior to the beginning of the 70th week.

Maybe by some distance we don't know if the interval between the rapture and the 70th

week is a day or 30 years.

But let's back up.

The 70th week is defined by a treaty enforced by this world leader.

He can't enforce that treaty until he's in power.

He can't be in power until after he's revealed.

He can't be revealed until the rapture.

So if the rapture comes first, he then gets revealed and comes to power.

It could be one day or it could be 30 years.

We don't know.

But in any case that's where we are.

Now there are some people who are sort of in between pre and post.

They call themselves mid-tread meaning the tribulation isn't really three and a half

years and that's seven.

But some people speak of a seven year tribulation as a connotative term.

And the mid-tread guys understand that they will be out before the abomination of desolation.

These other views both mid and post have to end up denying M and S.E.

and the New Testament teaches to expect them at any moment which is an argument for pre-tribulationism.

So that's at least the profile that many have.

The apocalypse of course is a catastrophic end crisis of the present time we're in.

I believe we're plunging into that.

We're going to see the spectacular reappearance of the King of Kings in his global empire.

And we're going to see the internment of Satan in the Abusso and the neo-earth reign of Jesus

Christ.

Both the Old and New Testament are full of.

Then at the end of that thousand years we'll see a final insurrection on the abolition of

sin.

That's when it finally gets wrapped up and we'll see a new heaven and a new earth.

That's sort of the quick summary of the book of Revelation in total.

Something else as we stand back from our studies and try to put this on perspective.

Let's take a look at Genesis 1 Revelation.

Genesis the earth was created in Revelation the earth passes away.

In Genesis we have the sun to govern the day and in Revelation we have no need for the

sun.

The darkness he called night in Genesis there is no night there in Revelation.

What is he called the seas?

There is no more sea in Revelation is singing enough.

The river for the earth's blessing and the river for the new earth in Genesis in Revelation.

In Genesis we have the earth's government that is through Israel.

And in Revelation we're going to see the earth's judgment.

One's the earth's government and one's the earth's judgment in terms of Israel.

And in God's image in Genesis we man headed by Satan's image shows up in Revelation.

In the entrance of sin is in Genesis the end of sin is in Revelation.

The curse is pronounced in Genesis there is no more curse in Revelation.

Death enters in Genesis 3 there is no more death in Revelation.

And man is driven out of Eden in Genesis 3.

Man is restored in Revelation 22.

The tree of life is guarded in Genesis.

The right to the tree of life is reestablished in Revelation 22.

Sorrow and suffering enter in Genesis 3 there is no more sorrow in Revelation 22.

Nimrod founds Babylon in Genesis 10, Babylon falls in chapter 17 and 18.

God's flood destroys evil generation in Genesis.

Satan's flood tries to destroy the elect generation in Revelation 12.

There's a bow, a token of God's promise in Genesis 9.

There's a bow for remembrance in Revelation 4 and 10.

Sodom and Egypt represent corruption and judgment in Genesis 13.

Sodom and Egypt that is Jerusalem show up in Revelation 11 representing those things.

The confederation is against Adam's people in Genesis 14.

A confederation is against Adam's seed in Revelation 12.

There's a bride for Abraham's son in Genesis 24.

There's a bride for Abraham's seed in Revelation 21.

Marriage separate the land.

The marriage of the first Adam occurs in Revelation 2.

The marriage of the last Adam occurs in Revelation 19.

And the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

One book.

The two basic discoveries we've tried to emphasize in this excursion.

That the Bible, although it consists of 66 separate books penned by over 40 guys over

a period of several thousand years, is an integrated message system.

Not only the themes, every word, every place name, even the mathematical structures that

hide underneath the text demonstrate a very, very skillful integrated design.

If that's true, you've got a second discovery.

You can then demonstrate that the origin of this message had to come from outside our

dimensions of space-time.

You can demonstrate.

You can't prove the Bible.

Yes, you can.

If you can demonstrate the integrity of the design in the first place and then demonstrate

that that design had to emerge from outside the time domain.

You've got a very, very, you've demonstrated a property that no other book on the planet

earth has, this demonstrable supernatural origin.

What a claim, a demonstration.

The central theme is that the Old Testament is the account of a nation, the New Testament

is the account of a man.

The Creator became a man.

His appearance is the central event of all history.

He died to purchase us and he's alive now.

And our most exalted privilege is to know him.

That's what the Bible is really all about, is to know him.

They say that there are over 8,000, this is just one categorization by J. Barton Payne.

Other people have different ones, but he categorizes over 8,000 perdictiverses and almost 2,000

perdictions on 700 different matters.

I happen to disagree with him.

I think it's all prophecy, but that's another thing.

One of the things that you quickly determined as you try to compare what you know about

your Bible and what's going on in the world is that there are major themes emerging.

You want to know what time it is in God's clock, you look at Israel.

Find out what's going on in Israel, you can tell because Israel's origin, it's ups,

it's downs and it's ultimate destiny, or all laid out in advance.

If you want to find out what time it is, check out where Israel is.

The city of Jerusalem, a bone in the throat among all major nations today, exactly like

Zechariah predicted.

Watch Jerusalem.

The temple is going to be rebuilt.

You can't see any evidence of it yet.

In fact, quite the contrary, the Muslims are quite aggressively with bulldozers trying

to destroy all Jewish evidence on the site.

But we know it's going to be rebuilt.

How do we know?

Because Jesus, Paul and John all make reference to it standing at the end times.

The city of Babylon is going to re-emerge, we believe, in world history.

And this is an exciting thing to watch because I think you're going to see it re-emerge

on the horizon.

And when you do, that's going to be an incredible witnessing opportunity as people start to take

notice.

Of course, Russia, the Magogians, if you will, there are people in the strategic community

that believe that Russia is on the threshold of shenanigans in the Middle East.

We'll watch that with great interest.

The rise of China is the major economic and military power on the horizon.

Europe and China are going to be the big players over the coming decades.

In the past 50 years, it was Russia and the USSR and the USA.

But in the coming decades, it's clearly going to be China and the European superstate.

The UN is on frail ground.

People are saying there needs to be an alternative to the UN and probably will emerge in the

form of the European Union.

Watch and see.

It will either take it over or simply be a rival.

And while all this is going on, the movement towards a one-world religion.

It's astonishing to see how many Christian leaders are falling for this ecumenical mania

that's going on.

Ecumenicalism.

Park truth at the door.

Let's just all agree that we're going to agree.

And this is the context of a global government, which has to happen because of the proliferation

of nuclear weapons, the rise of terrorism.

All of these are global issues and the thinking people are recognizing that it's going to

take global supervision to deal with these issues.

And while all this is going on, we have the rise of the occult.

How interesting it is that we live in an age of materialism.

As people have rejected God and embraced materialism, both in terms of their lifestyles and also

in terms of their philosophies.

And as they discover materialism is morally bankrupt.

What do they turn to?

To mysticism.

And how interesting it is that in this enlightened age with the advancements of science and all

that sort of thing, we find that increasingly people at all levels of society, not just

the disenfranchised, are turning to mysticism.

How fascinating it is.

All these are major themes that we try to map and track.

But our challenge to you in this course has not been just to learn the Bible.

What I want you to do is challenge this preposter statement.

The statement is that we're being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible

says more than about any other period of time in history, including the time that Jesus

walked the shores of Galilee and climbed the mountains of Judea.

That is an audacious statement some would say preposterous.

Great.

Don't accept it.

Challenge it.

How do you do that?

You've got to do two things.

One, find out what the Bible says.

Not what Chuck Missler or Hal Lindsey or Chuck Smith or whoever your favorite teacher is.

No.

Find out what the Bible says, point one.

Point two, find out what's going on.

And you won't on the 10 o'clock news.

You need to do a little homework.

But with internet, the alternative press, talk radio, you can today find out that the

stranglehold by the mass media is being broken.

They're overt attempt by promoting knowingly, deliberately promoting falsehoods, trying

to topple a sitting president during a time of war has discredited virtually all, almost

all, of the mainline media.

With the exception of Fox News, I think they're all have their hands dirty.

With having prostituted their franchise.

The franchise, the mass media, is to inform the electorate.

But these are people that take pride in shaping opinion rather than informing them.

And then they deliberately indulged in deceit.

And so that comes home to a story.

The point is most thinking people recognize they've got, takes a little homework to find

out what's really going on in the Middle East, in Europe, China.

Wherever, find out what's happening.

And the more you know about what the Bible says and the more you know about what's going

on in the world, the more you'll see a convergence, not by one or two things, by all of them.

And pretty exciting times.

But the ultimate issue is that you and I are in possession of a message of extraterrestrial

origin.

And it portrays us as objects of an unseen warfare.

And our eternal destiny, yours in mind, depends upon our relationship with the ultimate victor

in this cosmic conflict.

It does not depend upon what church you go to.

It doesn't depend on what denomination you happen to have allegiance to.

Our eternal destiny depends upon our relationship with him, the ultimate victor, in this conflict.

And the question you need to ask yourself is where do you stand with respect to him?

That's what it's all about.

Now if people ask you to check, that's great.

How do I study?

Well first of all, two things.

Through prayer and through a relationship with the author.

The important thing here is to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and to pursue that relationship

diligently, faithfully.

One of the things you need to do when you study your Bible is set aside to presuppositions.

We all bring to any study presumptions, presuppositions, blindfold them, put them aside, go at it with

an open mind and hear what the Scripture says.

I also encourage you to take notes.

I really wish I had been more thorough in my early years taking notes.

I'm doing it in more recent years, but build your own reservoir of your own notes and insights.

And along that line, let me tell you another secret.

One of the things I encourage you to do is go to a stationary store and get a journal.

You girls know what I'm talking about.

The guys haven't the foggiest notion of what I'm talking about.

In a stationary store, you typically can find a bound book, not a loose leaf, a bound book

that's maybe blank or lined, your preference, that's designed to be a personal diary, a

journal.

And the girls are fond of doing this.

The guys usually don't bother.

But I'm going to encourage you to undertake a secret journal.

This is a journal that you're not going to ever show anybody.

And that's important because I want you to be honest.

I want you to be candid.

This isn't something you're going to ever show anybody.

This is private.

I want you to be able to pour out yourself that no one will ever overlook your shoulder

to see it.

And what I want you to do, and you might want to do this with your prayer life too, by the

way.

It's an exciting thing when you pray is to keep a journal.

Write down what you pray about and when he fulfills it, make a note.

You'll be astonished.

So often we pray for something and when it happens, we sort of take it for granted.

So make his journal.

Take his journal.

In fact, you shouldn't pray without a pad.

You ever notice if you've been a member of a large corporation, when the boss asks the

secretary to come in his office, you never see her enter his office without a pad.

That's considered a sharp, well, always carry a pad, the presumption that she's going to

get an assignment.

And when you go to prayer, do you have a pad?

When God's speaking to you, do you make a note?

But there's something else about this journal I want you to think about.

How many of you have ever encountered a passage in the Bible that was confusing or self-contradictory

or you didn't understand?

Can I see your hands?

Okay, anybody without their hand up, it hasn't read their Bible, right?

We all have.

We all have.

Here's what I want you to do.

When you encounter something that makes no sense, jump for joy.

Because you have now an opportunity to conduct an empirical experiment in the supernatural.

An actual laboratory.

You know, it's interesting if you're an engineer in a technical field, you know that most of

what you learned in college was in the lab courses.

When you got your hands on, you actually did it.

Not the theory and the equations.

When you read it, that's where it came real.

Well, here's a chance to conduct a laboratory course in the supernatural.

What you do when you encounter a passage that makes no sense, you get your journal, get

a blank page, put the date down, put the reference.

And here's the important part.

You do this in ink, not pencil.

Try to write down why that passage is confusing or apparently contradictory, why it just doesn't

seem to make sense.

And try to be as thorough and as effective as you can.

Then when you have done that, you set that aside and you go to prayer.

Go before the throne.

Say, Father, You've promised that the Holy Spirit would teach us all things.

And this passage confuses me.

I don't understand it.

It doesn't make any sense.

It seems to contradict whatever.

Take it before Him and remind Him that He promised that He would teach you all things.

And call Him.

Explain that.

Call Him on that.

And then watch what happens.

Now it may not happen in the next ten seconds.

It may be the next day or it might be who knows.

What's going to happen though?

You may be reading somewhere else in the Bible.

And suddenly the inside will come.

Or maybe you'll be driving and you'll be listening to some radio speaker.

And he may not even be talking about the subject, but he'll say something that will

cause an insight.

He might be in a restaurant and you'll overhear a conversation at another table.

I don't know what instrument the Holy Spirit will use, but what He's going to do in the

reasonable time forthcoming.

He will make that problem so clear.

You now need to go back to your journal, find that page and the bottom, put the date

and explain how the Holy Spirit used to let that fall.

And then you'll be able to get rid of that cloud to let you see the reality of that.

Now you're probably saying, gee, Chuck, that sounds like great fun, but why all the paperwork?

I'll tell you why.

Because the day is going to come when you are going to go through the valley of doubt,

dark times.

And you'll begin the question that, is this all really real?

Have I gotten just carried away with all of it?

Whatever.

You'll be able to go back to that journal and look at the footprints of the Holy Spirit

as He carried you, item by item, as your personal tutor, not Chuck Messler or whoever, the

Holy Spirit, taking you through your Christian walk, step by step, in a supernatural way.

That journal will become one of your most precious, you've never showed to anybody.

The reason you don't want to do that is you want it private.

You want to be able to communicate with complete openness without any mask or facades

or whatever.

And it will be precious to the extent that you're candid with it.

Well the other thing I'm going to suggest, how many of you have a hobby?

How many of you have hobbies?

See, okay, now I'm going to tell you a couple of things that are probably too much hobby.

You probably know more about your hobby than you do your profession.

Because it's a labor of love.

I mean that's what you're into, whatever.

Tell you something else about your hobby, you probably have more invested in it than

you want your wife to find out.

I have a suggestion that may sound strange, but I have a suggestion.

Ben Franklin said, his concept was, Jack of All Trade's Master of One, he's always

miscoated, Jack of All Trade's Master of None is the way you usually hear it.

That's not what he said.

He said, Jack of All Trade's Master of One, what his concept was for an educated person

is an educated person should know something about everything and everything about something.

That was his concept.

And that's a good idea.

For a Christian, that something should be the Bible.

If you're a Christian, you can know a lot about anything.

You can know something about everything, but you should know everything there is to know

about the Bible.

So I'm going to suggest you do that.

Set out to make the Bible your hobby.

You don't have to supersede all the others, but it certainly should come ahead of the

others in the sense of your priorities.

What do I mean by making a hobby?

Well, first of all, invest in it.

Go to a Christian bookstore and pick up some helps.

A good exhaustive concordance.

Find out what an exhaustive concordance is and go get one.

They're not expensive.

Get a Bible dictionary or a Bible in Saint-Gapilla, a one-volume set or a five-volume set.

They're not expensive, even the big ones.

And if you computer litter it, the Bible software that's out is astonishing.

You don't need to know Hebrew and Greek to use Hebrew and Greek.

It'll translate for you.

It'll diagram the sentences for you.

The Bible software is available.

It's incredible.

I travel with over 3,000 volumes on my disk drive and my laptop.

You see, I check it's a lot of volumes.

Yes, but it's better than being in my library.

I've got books in my library.

I couldn't read in a lifetime.

But these are words.

Search a ball.

If I want to find out what Irenaeus said about love, it'll tell me.

If I have a passage, it'll open all those books to any pages that are relevant to that

inquiry.

And it doesn't a few seconds.

I can do in half an hour what used to take me a whole weekend of study because it's all

automatic.

Cross-reference.

It will take articles and summarize them for me.

Auto-abstracting software.

It's astonishing what's available to you if you can use those appliances.

So, invest in helps.

Now, exegetical helps.

Those are helps that help you understand what the text says.

Exegetis is what does the Greek or Hebrew say?

You have to know what it says before you can tell you what it means.

Once you know what it says, then you can explore what it is trying to say in semantically.

That's called exposition.

Exegetical analysis is to understand the tools there are grammar and lexicon in effect.

Check the translation.

What does it really mean?

And what kind of figure of speech is being used if it is and so forth?

Exposition is thinking what's the significance of that particular passage there, etc.

But there are helps of all kinds and indulging them.

You'll quickly discover some of your favorites.

Certain guides will just yield relative.

Some of them are very wordy but boy, they're rich.

Others are very terse and pointed.

But they're all different styles, different strokes for different folks.

But the real issue that I want to close on before we finish our little excursion here is

that the Bible is about a person.

And I want to tell you about him.

I was inspired by this by Pastor S.D. Lockers, John San Diego.

He passed away now.

But he did a little thing that caught my attention and I've done my version of it.

But I read it to him for this basic idea.

I want to tell you about our coming king.

I often get invited to speak at Governor's election, professional election year, Governor's

breakfast, that sort of thing.

They never invite me back.

Because I quickly point out I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.

I'm a monarchist.

But I tell him about my candidate.

You see, he's a racial king.

That shocks him.

Jesus was Jewish.

He's king of the Jews.

Let's not forget that.

He is the king of Israel.

He's a national king.

He's not just some kind of religious figure.

He is going to rule the world through Israel.

So he's racial and national king.

He is the king of all the ages, the king of heaven, the king of glory, and the king

of kings and the Lord of lords.

The question is, do you know him?

Do you really know him?

That's the issue here, not quoting verses and all these other things.

He was a prophet before Moses, a priest after Melchizedek, a champion like Joshua.

He was an offering in the place of Isaac.

He was a king from the line of David.

He's a wise counselor, even above Solomon.

He was beloved and rejected, but then exalted son like Joseph.

Yet, he's far more.

The heavens declare his glory.

The firmament shows his handiwork.

He who is, who wasn't, always will be.

He's the first and the last.

The alpha and the omega.

The elephant, the towel, the A and the Z.

He's the first fruits of them that slept.

He's the ego, I, me, the I am that I am.

Yes, he was the voice of the burning bush.

He so claimed in John 8.

He's the captain, Lord's host.

He was the conqueror of Jericho.

He's enduringly strong, entirely sincere.

He turnedly steadfast.

He's immortally graceful, imperially powerful, impartially merciful.

In him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily, the very God of very God.

He is our kinsman Redeemer indeed as we learn in Ruth, but he's also our Avenger of Blood.

He's our City of Refuge.

He's our performing high priest, our personal prophet, our reigning king.

He's the loftiest idea in literature.

He's the highest personality in philosophy.

He's the fundamental doctrine of theology.

He's the supreme problem of higher criticism.

He's the miracle of all the ages, the superbtive of everything good.

You and I are beneficiaries of a love letter.

That love letter was written in blood on a wooden cross that was erected in Judea some

two thousand years ago.

I'd say he was crucified on a cross of wood, yet he made the hill on which it stood.

By him are all things made that were made, without him was not anything made that was

made.

And by him are all things held together, Paul tells us in Colossians.

Got a question.

What held him to that cross?

What held him to that cross?

It wasn't the nails.

At any time you could have said, enough already, I'm out of here.

What held him to that cross?

His love for you and me.

That's what held him to the cross.

He was born of a woman so that we could be born again, born of God.

He humbled himself so that we could be lifted up.

He became a servant so that we could be made joint heirs with him.

We have no idea what that means.

He suffered rejection so that we could become his friends.

He denied himself so that we could freely receive all things.

He gave himself so that he could bless us in every way.

He's available to the tempted and tried.

He blesses the young.

He cleanses the lepers.

He defends the feeble.

He delivers the captives.

He discharges the debtors.

He forgives the sinners.

He franchises the meek.

He guards the besieged.

He heals the sick.

He provides strength to the weak.

He regards the aged.

He rewards the diligent.

He sympathizes and saves.

He's incredible.

His offices are manifold.

His reign is righteous.

His promises are sure.

His goodness is limitless.

His light is matchless.

His grace is sufficient.

His love never changes.

His mercy is everlasting.

His word is enough.

His yoke is easy and his burden is light.

I wish I could describe him to you.

He's indescribable.

He's incomprehensible.

He's irresistible.

And of course he's invincible.

The heaven of heavens cannot contain him.

Man cannot explain him.

The Pharisees couldn't stand him.

But soon learned they couldn't stop him.

The personal representative of the ruler of the world couldn't find any fault with

him.

The witnesses could not agree against him.

Herod couldn't kill him.

Death couldn't handle him.

The grave couldn't hold him.

He has always been and always will be.

He had no predecessor.

He'll have no successor.

You can't impeach him.

He ain't going to resign.

His name is above every name.

That at the name of Yeshua, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus

Christ is Lord.

His is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Well, some of you may be asking, great, what do I do now?

We've gone through the 11th and 24 hours where you can go from here.

It would be to pick a book, any book.

And go ahead verse by verse on your own or with a commentary, whatever.

Do whatever, energetic you want to be.

And of course, we have helps that will help you with CD-ROMs are very inexpensive, a lot

cheaper than there used to be with tapes and so forth.

We also have topical studies on over 100 different subjects, but that's not the only

way to go.

I encourage you to go to the expositional route.

It's the most fruitful I think over the years.

But the other resources I want you to be aware of that we have available, we have a monthly

news journal and as part of this program of watching this, you can get a year subscription

without charge by just asking for it.

A little monthly journal, it tries to highlight the biblical relevance of current events and

also gives you some helps in studying and so forth.

We have an internet site that I encourage you to check out.

It's one of the oldest, largest Christian websites on the internet.

And no one can pronounce coin in the house, let alone spell it.

Everyone calls us K-House.

So it's K-House.org, K-H-O-U-S-E.org.

We monitor the strategic trends and we try to highlight those things that are going on

that are relatively relevant.

We publish a free weekly one pager.

You sign up for it, we'll email you every week, a little one page that lists the things

that have happened this week that's biblically relevant and it gives you the link of the

websites that are following that particular development competently.

There's also, we're linked to the blue letter Bible which is free.

You can get English, Hebrew, Greek text, all word searchable, commentaries, dictionaries,

encyclopedias.

It's all free on the internet and very powerful tools for those.

Just give it a try.

But our primary goal is to try to encourage you to participate in a home Bible fellowship.

The people over 50 years of study, the people I've seen that really grow grow in small,

face-to-face accountable groups that meet during the week.

Sunday church, great, I'm not knocking that, but that won't be enough.

Get, check out your professional associates or your neighborhood.

They're all different kinds.

Find one, give it a try.

If you can't find one you like, start one, we'll help you.

That's what we're all about.

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