Grace Chapel Bible Ministries
Tuesday Night bible Study/ IS; Was: and coming soon - 2024/11/05
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Let's say, at least for the Republicans, and anyway, and all kidding aside, the very serious time in which we live in and be praying for our nation, and I do pray for, you know, on this end, I am a Republican, I pray for a regime change. I pray for constitutionalists that will go back to that founding document of this country, and it is that founding document that was, and itself, it's not sacred, but it has, it's the principles of Godly men who establish it, our constitution, our declaration of independence, these things are what kept this country together. And the difference between liberals and conservatives, the liberals seek to distance itself from conservative values, those values that kept this country strong. Conservatism seeks to keep them established, so I do pray for conservatism. I pray, if we continue to pray for the election, that those who are constitutionalists will once again establish, we've seen what liberalism has done in the last four years, and I'm not going to be shy about it from here. That, politically, we need to be back into, but with that, if we have some return to conservative values and some turn to things of freedom, then the question is going to be, what are you going to do? If the election turns out everything that you want, the conservatives take the offices, and that freedom is established, and we have some breathing, what are you going to do with it? I'm not going to be the big question or question that we must all ask ourselves. So as we turn our evening, I'm going to finish up this evening with revelation, not to finish up, but we didn't finish my lesson on Sunday, so we're going to continue this evening on Revelation 1-1, and I believe we'll get to at least 1-3 this evening. The next few moments will be devoted to sign a prayer, giving each one the opportunity of setting everything else aside, focusing upon the Lord Jesus Christ and whose word we're about to study, and as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us examine ourselves. If we have any on confess sins, let us name them quietly, privately, to God the Father, who is faithful and just forgive us those sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We do this not as a license to sin, but a license to serve. We come to listen to God's Word, and that's the right thing to do, and we must do it in a right way. So let's take these next few moments, and I'll open this up in prayer. Let us pray. Father in Heaven, we thank You for another day. We thank Heavenly Father for that opportunity of time, that window of time to serve the time to grow, time to hear Your Word and grow in it. Time to serve the, and make those divine appointments, and this window of opportunity to grow in the, I pray, Heavenly Father, that You open our hearts to the study of Your Word this evening. We ask that You'll make it a source of blessing to things that we're learning, and make it a source of blessing and challenge, as we continue to grow in grace in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His name we pray. Amen. All right, this is going back to Revelation 1-1. And I believe we can, I believe we can bring it up on here. Let's see what we've got. Here we go. There we go, and I'll bring it up here. There we go. All right, Revelation 1-1. All right, Revelation 1-1. And the revelation of Jesus Christ, Apokalupas, Yaisu Christu, which God gave Him to show His bond service, the things which must soon take place. We spoke Sunday about soon, and soon is an interesting word, and the soon can be related to, and it depends on what part of history you're at. The soon, when this was written, and believers were under the persecution, under dimension, and then the emperor there. The soon here, it's an element of hope. Hope, just hang on. And I think there's an element of this, and it can go through everything. That just get through this, and that there's going to be times of suffering. But hang on. It's kind of like Moses, when Moses stands still, and watch the deliverance of the Lord, because soon He's coming. Soon He is going to do, so we have that, and it's got a bit of, and so they're expecting at any time for Him to return, and then you've got throughout history where we are at today. And we can see that we can rationalize it, or consider that, it's not rationalized, but it is a scripture. Peter says that a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. James tells us that time is but a vapor, and when you're looking in a perspective eternity, in the light of eternity, which is forever and ever and ever, this world history is going to be but a, but just a little smidgen of time. And so the soon here, we can see that, and especially come back into revelation, and there is an offer of hope for a soon. When these things begin, they're going to start happening in sequential order, and things are going to develop pretty quick, and we can look at it like that. I want to look at it as an eminency, in the sense that to be ready, and with eminency means that these things can begin at any portion of history. No one, I'm sure that those in back when John wrote this back in '95 AD, that they weren't expecting the Lord to terry for two thousand years. But here we are, two thousand years later, but still with the eminency that we need to be watchful, that we should be those servants at watchful. When these things begin, and we should be preparing ourselves, whether it is in this generation or not, whether we are the generation that's going to go into revelation, or the seven years or not. We should be preparing ourselves, that's to say for the worst case scenario, but yet I don't want to say that either, because remember what I say with those who are believers in Lord Jesus Christ, and though it's going to be a matter of intense testing coming in for the church. Nonetheless, it is going to be a time for maximum application to the glory of God in that period of time. And so once again, we come back to our scripture here, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his bondservant the things which must soon take place. And he said, and communicated it by his angel to his bondservant, John. All right, so there's a chain of advance. First of all, let me see if we can see that all right in there. We'll just have to look at that later. First of all, there's a chain of custody revelation. This revelation comes from God. And this is a good place to insert this here. It's a second Peter 121. We'll put this up here. It is that for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. This revelation is from God in 2 Timothy 3, 3, 16, says that all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproved for correction for training and righteousness. The first hurdle that we need to get over is the fact that the Bible is God breathed as we read in 2 Timothy. All scripture is God breathed. And that means the source of scripture is the source of the scripture is God. And yes, folks will argue with you and all say, well, man wrote it, so therefore you cannot be trusted. Let me tell you something. That even the Bible, which is God's word, just like Jesus was a hypostatic, he lived or his very nature is hypostatic. You've got a human nature, you've got a human that Jesus is humanity and he is deity in one person forever, a hypostatic union. But the Bible was also a hypostatic union that it has its human element. It has its divine element. And it is God breathed, which means it is inspired by God. Let's look at definition of inspiration, which comes from actually our teacher, RB Thing, and let's bring that up. Here's a definition of inspiration. Human authors wrote as moved by the Holy Spirit so that without wavering their human intelligence, they're vocabulary, they're personal feelings. They're literary style, their personality, their environmental influences or their individuality. They recorded God, let me see, let me try again, human authors wrote as moved by the Holy Spirit so that without wavering their human intelligence, their vocabulary, their personal feelings, their personality. Their personal feelings, their literary style, their personality, their environmental influences or their individuality. They recorded God's complete and connected message to man with perfect accuracy in the original languages of scripture, the very words bearing the authority of divine authorship. This is known as the verbal plenary view of inspiration. And so the first article that we have to get over is the fact that this is God's Word. And if I can ask you, can you stand up with your Bible and you can, with all assurance, say that what I'm holding here, in my hand, understanding that it was written in its original language, and we'll give it that. But a translation of that original and then what we have is truly God's Word. And you say yes and you affirm to that, then, and if you've got that settling in your heart, then if God speaks, he speaks through his scripture, then you owe God a hearing. And willful ignorance, willful ignorance of God's Word, that means you don't even open the book. You pay very little, you play scant attention to discipleship and learning God's Word. That's tantamount to rejection of God's Word. So this is from God. This revelation is from God. It's not something that John made up. It's something that this is a special message and not to the world, but it's to God's people. It's to God's people. It's specifically to the church, as we will see. This is communication. And there's a chain of custody of this revelation. It doesn't God. And it's given to his angel. Angel is on the loss. What is angel? What's on the loss? What is an on the loss? It's a messenger. And I believe that there's different beings. I think there's different spiritual beings, as we're going to see in Revelation, that these creatures, there's different creatures in the heavenly realm, in the unseen realm. They're not all angels. I've come to understand that angels, you see, we like to categorize everything as angels. Everything that's in the unseen realm. It's like when I was in Saudi Arabia, you know, there was everyone thought or the Arabs all think that everyone's Catholic by religion. And everyone's Catholic is just that they don't see the denominational breakdown or anything, but everyone's Catholic. Well, not every creature in the spiritual realm is an angel. An on the loss means messenger. And I'm sure, and I think it's more of a job description than it describes the being in itself. So here, when these messengers appear, they appear as men. They don't appear as women or they don't appear as children, but all through the Bible, they always appear as men. Sorry about that, ladies. So here is God that he gives the revelation to an angel, to his messenger angel, and that angel communicates, and it says here, it communicates it. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his bondservant, his slave, the things which would soon take place, and he sent it and communicated it by his angel to his bondservant to his slave, John. All right, now let's take a look at, okay, Eonos, this is Eonos, and Eonos is the youngest, John is the youngest of the apostles, the youngest of the disciples. And let's take a look at a few things that we know about John. He is the brother of James, and both were with their father's zebity in a fishing business. They were known as the sons of Zebity, which means that they were the sons of thunder, and this probably comes from Luke 954. When there were some who were doing things that was contrary, or not in the way that the Lord had taught them to do, or what have you, John and James, you can read that in Luke 9. That John and James, you know, came to Jesus, and Jesus said, "Hey, you want us to call fire down on them?" And that's when Jesus said, "Hey, listen, notice that, are not against us, they're with us." You know, "Hey, cool it, boys." The mother of James and John is Salome, and everybody said, "Salome." Salome, she was the one we meet when she came to Jesus, and she was kind of politicking for her sons. And she's saying to Jesus, "Hey, can these sit?" One of my sons said it to right hand, and the other one left him. And that's when Jesus told her, "Hey, you know, you don't know what you're asking here." He is the only apostle that was not put to death, and the other disciples were put to death. Hey, the mission tried to, the mission who ruled from '81 to '96 AD, he set himself up as God, and so he went to war with the Christians. And so he tried to kill John by boiling them in oil, and when that didn't work, he exiled John to the island of Patmos. And this is verified by the early church fathers, of some of which were actual disciples of John. And they testified that it was the mission who exiled John to the island, the prison island of Patmos. And the mission ruled, again, the mission ruled from '81 to '96 AD. So if it was that the mission exiled him, this is important dates now, because there are those that they want to give an early date of revelation. And they want to say that the date of revelation is '65 AD. They do this because they, because the, especially those who are Preterist, they want to equate the '80s-70 with the fallen Jerusalem, the destruction of Jerusalem, to revelation. Maybe the Roman general Titus was the Antichrist who set himself up in the temple and the destruction and all that. They want to equate that to revelation. There may be some things that you could compare and some things that you could say, maybe if you're looking at it, you could say fulfilled. But certainly, there's many things that have not been fulfilled for early date of revelation, or to say that AD-70. See, the Preterist says that there's no more prophecy that that's already been fulfilled, which is wrong, which is a fallacy. And again, they want to date revelation to '65 rather than '95. And in order to justify their Preterist view, John wrote around in '95, that's when he was exiled to the island of Patmos. All right, so the revelation of Jesus Christ, when God gave him to show his slave, the things which would soon take place, and he sent it and communicated by his angel to his slave, John. So we've been introduced by John, anything else I can say about John. He was a young, if we talked about his mother, he wrote the Gospel, as he who wrote the Gospel of John. He also wrote three epistles, John 1, 2, and 3. Didn't Jesus favor to John? Very good, he did, thank you for that, and yes, he was the favorite of Jesus. And that was probably because of his youth, John was more influential. He was really influential, and he loved, and he worshipped Jesus. So yeah, that's a good point. And John is the only one, I believe, who died of old age. All right, so that's John, that's no one who wrote Revelation, who testified to the Word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw, all that, or even to all that. Even to all that he saw. Okay, this is a witness, this testimony here is, is Martus, bring up my logus again. All right, let's see. Commuative, who testified to the Word, testified to the Word, and this Word, logus of God, and to the testimony, testimony is Martareto, or Martus, and it means to witness a testimony. Remember, like the testimony, like you have the Old Testament and New Testament, this is a witness, this is a testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. And so this is going to be first-hand information, I mean, it's coming from John. Now, if you don't see something, if it's not us who see something and drink, if it's not our experience, if it's not us seeing the things that John saw, the next best thing is to know someone who did see it. And again, we have the reliability, we have it on good authority that this person, this John, let me point this way. There are some things that are said that I could find hard to believe. Maybe the person isn't, you know, maybe the person, and listen, it doesn't mean I don't like a guy or a person who's communicating this, I'll find something hard to believe, but there are those people that if they say it and they have it, I find them as reliable sources. It's kind of like I heard something from Chuck Messler the other day and he was, he was talking about, I've watched a couple videos on Chuck Messler talking about Halloween. And there were some things, he was talking about Walter Martin and I've heard Walter Martin talk about the same thing, you know, intensified to these things that were, you know, I mean, demonic, even levitation and crazy things. From anybody else, I would not believe that I just realized that I said, come on. But Walter Martin and Chuck Messler are of good authority. And here it is that John, under the filling of the spirit, who writes this, who writes scripts, who's put this in writing, he saw this. So it's like, I have it on good authority that John, who is filled with spirit, who wrote this under the, and that all scriptures God breathed. It's all that he saw, and I believe the things that he saw, the question is, how do we interpret it? And I should say upfront right here, the things that we're going to see, just a lot of symbols. But it's not, and I'm not going to say here, and revelation is not going to be something where I'm going to say here and say that this means that there's going to be, these are helicopters and this is nuclear bombs and this is this, I'm not going to do none of that. This is not my interpretation, but revelation will, and these symbols are going, all these symbols, all these symbols are going to be point us back to somewhere in scripture. It's not going to be hard to understand, and it's not going to be, again, it's not going to be my interpretation, but it's going to be, first of all, we're going to see what John saw. And then there are illusions, there are many illusions in revelation. What I mean by illusions is that there's very few direct quotes, if any, I don't know if there's any direct quotes in revelation. But we're going to see like coming up seven spirits, and it's just going to mention, it's not going to be a quote, but then we're going to find the seven spirits back in Isaiah chapter 11. So here is the testimony of the, this is John who testified to the Word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Okay. Did we come out to our, our word here for blessed. What is that word back? Very good. Very good. The word is. Okay, I'm sorry. Mr. Mouse, but Mr. Mouse got that wrong. That's my carry on. And he says you look a toss. This actually word is a carry on. And we got to do a night on this. How's that? All right, McCary us, and it's pertaining to being happy with the implication of enjoying a favorable circumstance. Happy. Okay, so this is condition of the soul. So first of all, this, this is the only book that promises a, a particular happiness such as the sermon on the Mount. Here's the sermon on the Mount speaks of the happiness, happiest he who, who is poor in spirit. Happy and are the merciful. Happy are those who are righteous or hunger for righteous. So here it is. Happy is he a reason. When you see this, happiness belongs to us. When we talk about you, Logatos, which is also blessing, which is translated blessing. That you, Logatos is directed to God. And that is blessed or saluting or, or bowing down to. That's the blessing that on there. But this is actually happiness. Happiness he who does three things. And these three things go together. Okay. Three things. Happy is he who reads. And those who hear the words of the prophecy. And those who hear to the things that's written in it. Three things. And these are not separate things. These are not three different happiness this year. It is not a happy, you got a group that's happy because they read. Or, and then, and then you got a different group that happy who hears. And you got a third group that happy when they obey. Now, this is one package. So we're not going to, we're not going to, what do you say, pick and choose what we're going to have. This is the package. So let's first take a look at reads. And the read is the a verb and it's a present active partnership. Well, this is a continuation. This is not something that you heard of the red ones. And, and that's it. So first of all, reads. And let's look at the word for reads. We'll go back to our buddy Lou and Ida. On a good nose go. On a good nose go. And on a good nose go is to read something written. Normally done in loud and thus involving verbalization. The to read or reading. As a practice, we are a practice of ritual or let's just say custom on Sunday mornings that we read a passage in the Bible before we begin. Before we begin our study and it's just a custom that we do here at Grace Chapel. But the idea of this, the practical aspect of it is back in the time of writing, there were, there was literacy, but there were many people that could not read. They were, or if they could read, they from coming from other places they could not read, they could not read the Greek or maybe they couldn't read the Hebrew or the Aramaic. And on top of that there is, there was no printing presses. Everything was handwritten. So all the literature that you had was limited. It's not like we have today, we have the printing press. Can I get an amen for printing presses? Because it has given us our books and availability. And listen, if you don't have a Bible that's on you. You can get a Bible free anywhere. You can go to any church and ask them for a Bible. I'm sure any church will give you a Bible. I go to different places like Miracle Hill or what not. They have Bibles that are up front. That's about every Miracle Hill I've seen. They have Bibles up front. So if you don't got a Bible and you can't afford one, you can go to Miracle Hill and you've got a free Bible up front. No problem. But that wasn't here. They would get their letters. And plus there wasn't a completed canon of Scripture either. And so public reading was a thing. And that public reading was somebody who had the letter and he would read it to the people, verbalization, reading out loud. Okay, so first of all, there's the happiness of the one who's reading it. And that reading and there's a special happiness for even the teachers who stand and to pulp it. When they're teaching the Word of God, when they're distributing the, when they're articulating the Word, how do I say it? When they're preaching, okay? When they're preaching. And the preacher gets to see the enthusiasm and the people who's receiving that message. They're excited. You can, in my mind, I could see a letter from Paul coming. And the person within that church would, or in that assembly. Hey, you know, and they can't wait in there. They're standing at the door and it's standing room only because there's a letter from Paul. And they're excited and, and, and the archer is going to read this to them and they're going to hear the words of Paul. It wasn't about the, it wasn't about the preacher. And, and, and they understood that Paul was an apostle and he spoke for God. And this was exciting. Well, here's John. And for those who hear these words, first of all, the reader, the one who reads, the one who disseminates, there's, there's that much carry-offs for him. Okay. Let me see if we have anything. So first, we get through there. Make sure I didn't miss anything on that. So, so happy to read. He has a privilege of receiving a hazard or the privilege of seeing the impact of the words on the heart of those that receive the revelation. Reading is the first reading or receipt, reading is the first part of our, actually Bible study because we'll break this down to Bible study. And what, what are the three, three things of Bible study is first observation, then interpretation, then, and then there is the, the, the application. So in reading, there is the observation because as it's being read, as it's being received, there is observing what is being read to it, to taking it in. All right, first part of that. The, the reader would be excited to see the given, any given venue to fill. Yeah, we'll move on. All right. So happiness is those who read, the orchard, the one who's doing reading. And then there's those who hear the words. Okay, blesses he, okay, blesses he, the singular who reads it. And then those who hear the word, a cool, in a cool is, let me bring back, let me bring this up while we're at it. Those who hear, and hearing is a cool, is to hear hearing, and it can, it goes on with a few other things here, a hearing. Let me see what, maybe Mouse did a better job on this one. That's a cool, is a, to hear, to harken, to listen to, to hear in our own bag, to understand, like the understanding part here, to take in or admit to mental acceptance. Okay, hearing a cool, blesses those. Now, one thing they must understand here is, this is more than just an oratory hearing. This is more than something you do with you here. We can understand it. Back what's, what's that? It should be coming to your mind right now. You got a smile. Bless it. Okay. Yeah. For those who have in a year, let them hear what the spirit says to the churches. Hearing has to do, it's not just a listening, it's not just a physical listening, but it's also, hearing a cool means to also receiving and to understanding. Like, hey, talk about, okay, let's talk, okay, our marriage, Becca and, Becca and stuff. And she knows, and God, and God, you married, you go through this, that your wife will be talking to you. And, and you've got, you've got other things on your mind. And wives go through it too, when they're, they could, they could be hearing their kids, but not hearing them. They're, they're making sound, but they're not or, let's get back to the husband's wife. The wife, the husband is talking, thinking about something going on at work, or something project, the wife is talking to them. He's actually hearing her, but his mind, his, his, or his, he's not listening. He's hearing the words, but he's not listening. They're not going in. I remember working, working as a supervisor at, at the squadron. And there was a lot of things going on, this, that, the other thing. And, and then all of a sudden there was a guy, one of the Marines was right in front of me speaking, his mouth was moving. He was making noise, but I wasn't hearing him, because there was so many other things in my mind. When it goes to the spirit, when it comes to understanding the spiritual realm, and then receiving the things from God, they, the things are spiritually appraised. And you can be sitting in Bible class. You may be, and, and, and the Bible teacher may be given the best, best lesson, true and accurate to the Bible. But if you're not, but if it's not the spirit, if you're not spiritually listening to it, that is being filled with the spirit, having that spiritual discernment, you're really not hearing it. I think it's first Corinthians. Let's always get this one mixed up. Let's, I'm starting to come down with the sniffles on. Let's see, first Corinthians, 214, I think. Yeah, got it right the first time that time. All right. First Corinthians, 214, but a natural man does not accept the things of the spirit, for they are foolish to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised. But he who spiritual appraised out of, he who is spiritual appraises all things yet, he himself is appraised by no one, who has known the mind of the Lord that he will instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. The natural man is the Suki cos man, the natural man that pertaining to human nature, and this may be the, this can be the unbeliever who spiritually dead, he has a body, he has a soul, but a spiritual spirit that is dead to the Lord. The Lord, he can't understand the spirit's phenomena. He cannot understand the word of God. He might be able to understand things in the Bible, but history and few things, but he can't understand, he can't go beyond the surface level. It doesn't make sense to him. And scripture also tells us that the one that the Bible makes, that the message of the cross is foolish to them. Alright, so the natural man is Suki cos man, can be the unbeliever, or it can be the believer who is in carnality, who is walking in darkness. His heart is hardened to the scripture, because he's quenching and grieving the Holy Spirit. He's walking in darkness, he's walking in sin, he's walking in obedience, he's outside of the classroom, he's no longer under the filling ministry of God, the Holy Spirit, and to understand the deep things of God again, they must be spiritually appraised. Okay, so, but then Suki cosman, the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for their foolish to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised. So, if you're having problems with them, with understanding the word of God, and it takes some work, but I mean even a basic thing. If you have no concentration on scripture, on Bible class, if your mind keeps wondering, if you just cannot take it in, you need to stop and take a look at where you are spiritually. If you're in some type of spiritual rut, and you can't even open up the Bible to read it and to get anything out of it, you might want to check your spiritual where you are. And because if you walk in darkness, you cannot understand your perception of the scripture is, so this is what we're talking about Okuo, that hearing the word of God, it's much more than just hearing it, Okuo means it's to understanding, it's to spiritually discern what is being written. And this does certainly bring happiness to the believer, Ok, and then we look at the third thing here, let's go back to Revelation, Ok, the three things. Oh, back up. Alright. Oh my, there we go, there we go. Alright, blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of this, of the prophecy. And heed, Ok, the third one is heed, so we've got the reading, we've got the hearing, the understanding, the perception, the spiritual perception, and then you've got heed. And as he, as Puluso, or actually Tareto, Tareto is the word to say, and that means to continue to obey orders or commandments, to obey, to keep the commandments or obedience. And how do we know that we love God is when we obey His commandments. So the happiness, this is the application phase of the word of God. James says that we are to be, to be doers, or practitioners of the word, and not just doers only. And so that, so the first part of it is to receive, that is going to come from our, the part reading. For us we can, well, there's the reading, and then there is the, the hearing, the taking it in, the perception, the interpretation, the study of God's Word. And we should, we should all be married, married in terms of sitting at Jesus's feet, and, and so much, and, and, and interested in hearing, hearing the Lord speak to us. Then there is the application. What are you going to do, once you receive it, once God has given it to you? What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with what God has given you? And so that is the application phase. And this, it really boils down to Bible study methods. The observation of the looking at the text, and then, and then the interpretation of what, of the accurate understanding of what it is. That's what, where your hearing comes from. And then you have the application. What are you going to do with it? And these three steps to happiness, um, leads to the application. And so, this is where our Macarius, this is where our happiness comes from. Notice here, I'll finish off with this. Notice here, that John doesn't say happy as he who, happy as he who gets into the music, the music ministry. And who, happy as he who knows all the M's, and, and who has wonderful voices. Happy as he who, um, has this ministry or that ministry. Happy as he who has this program or functions in this program or that program in their church. Happy as he who, um, and all kinds of that, happiness boils down to one thing. And it is the understanding and the, the perception, the application, the perception, the metabolization, and the application of the word of truth. Before you can apply, you've got to know it. Before you know it, you've got to learn it, um, to be receptive to it. That is the key of the happiness, and this is the happiness that, that John promises. That, happy as he who reads it, and that has to do with the vocalizing and reading it to the audience. Happy as he who, um, um, who hears it. And I'm talking about spiritually appraising it, spiritually discerning it, which comes from our walk with the Holy Spirit, our mentorship with the Holy Spirit. And then, what are you going to do with it? Um, those who heed the words, those who remain. And going into, going into the, the, the Daniel 70th week, going into the challenge of which revelation is about. That, um, the, the, the believer is prepared, going into combat, going into that challenge. And, and though he could do it with grit, grit teeth, and, and, and a certain amount of dread. And, um, nonetheless, there is that condition of happiness. That, that knowing that God is with them, and we'll talk about the, the, the, the one who is, the one who was, and the one who is coming. That will bring the peace, that, that peace to us, and that happiness. So, we're happy in the sense that it is the Word of God that prepares us for whether it's, and, and any given generation, any, any given crises, or if even if it's going into Daniel 70th week. It is the Word of God that prepares and the words and prophecy. Um, going into it, we can properly, um, discern through the Word of God what's going on. And, and have that, um, a particular satisfaction within our hearts of knowing, um, the program, God's program. You have anything? All right, let's, with that, let's, I'm getting, I'm going downhill. Um, so, let's take some of that. Okay, let's close out and pray our Father in heaven, we thank you for this time together, and we pray heavenly Father that God the Holy Spirit will open our hearts to the things that we've studied, and these things we pray in Christ name, amen. All right. [Music] [Music] [Music] [ Silence ]
The coming of the Lord is immanent. that is the meaning behind soon. Now matter the time, the soon gives the believer hope.