Address—J. Erisman
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Trust thy waiting people. Pray 183.
The interval between the coming of the Lord for his own and he's coming back to reign for the one on earth and to put in subjectionless, rebellious.
Saying in which we're living.
There will be things that occur in heaven during that time.
And there will be things that occur upon earth, so we would like to look into some of these things.
I chose certain colors here just to show differentiation between.
The the different ones and the different events, those which are from heaven I showed in blue and those that are on earth.
They were more depending on who was the actor, but.
For instance, this line here, lower line there represents the history of Israel after the church is gone.
The other line of paralleling that is the revived Roman Empire.
So in this first line here.
This line below that there represents the.
Resurrection of those who are asleep in Christ when he comes, and that is brought before us in.
1St Corinthians 15 and also in First Thessalonians 4 and other scriptures.
They will be.
Brought out from the graves wherever they are. And then the living will also be caught up and will meet the Lord in the air. Well, I have indicated that as though that was the bright morning star. And so He comes down from heaven to meet us, and then He takes us back with Him.
Well then we have a scene as we enter the glory.
Indicated by a little star there. And that would be so I would think, The judgment seat of Christ and all. We had a judgment seat of Christ spoken of in 2nd Corinthians 5.
2nd Corinthians 5.
We'll read from the sixth verse. Therefore we're always confident, knowing that while we're at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Before we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and be president of the Lord. Wherefore we labor that whether friends are absent, we may be accepted of Him. That's not in the sense of being accepted.
As to our salvation, we've been made meat for the Saints, inherits of the Saints in light long before, but He would have us to be an exercise as to our pathway in this scene, that it might be unacceptable pathway to it. Then he goes on to say, For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive of the things done in the body according to that He had done, whether it be good or bad.
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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade man we are, but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciousness. So we have a judgment seat of Christ, and that is where it says here all will. The judgment seat of Christ has different sessions. The first session is with the redeemed in glory and.
There the Lord has to.
Have an interview with us concerning our course down here.
Well, it's not something that we would look for as a matter of dread, but the apostle puts it as we're looking at down in Greenville the other night in the.
1St chapter of the 2nd Epistle Corinthians.
The 14th verse as also you have acknowledged us in part that we are your rejoicing even as yields are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
There is an expression in the New Testament Scripture the day of Christ or the day of the Lord Jesus. And we also had an expression the day of the Lord. Well, the day of Christ, the day of the Lord Jesus is a different one from the day of the Lord and the day of Christ. The way it's brought before us has primarily to do with our being acceptable to Him as to our ways here. So in that 14th verse he says as also you have acknowledged us in part.
That we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
That is the apostle Paul, he's writing to these people and he'd have to speak rather severely to them about their ways, but here he presents to them the this time when they have this session with the Lord Jesus that.
He says it'll be a time of our rejoicing and time of yours. That is, the servant who had carried the message was O'Connor, rejoice in the prospects of seeing so many as the fruits of the gospel.
With the Lord in that day, and those who had received this message would be rejoicing to think that the message came to them that the Lord sent these ones with such a message. So it's a term of rejoicing and I don't doubt when we're brought before him in that day and there are certain things that will be brought before us. Tells us, you know, and want to read something about it. The third chapter, the first epistle.
About how that there's some that receive rewards.
Some of their works are all burned up.
And their saves as so as by fire. But we will see the marvelous grace of the Lord that sustained us in those times of trial. So we're caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Then we have also in the 5th of Ephesians, where it tells us that He's going to present the church to himself without spot or wrinkler or any such thing. And we read in the 19th of Revelation.
That.
There says the marriage of the lamb is caught, and his wife made herself ready, and she tore it as granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for fine linen is the righteousness of the Saints. There it is our ways of all been cleansed of anything that defiled garments in Scripture speak of our ways and.
There, that's all clean and white.
So.
Represented to him in that way she's made herself ready. Well, it's passing that judgment seat of Christ that's made herself ready in that sense and so she's presentable to it. Well that I would take it is just before he comes out of heaven to reign well now.
After the, you perhaps all heard that there is a.
One week of interval of Daniel 70 brought the force in the 9th chapter of Daniel, that 70 weeks were determined upon his people, and to bring in the reign of everlasting righteousness. Well, 69 weeks had taken place when the Lord appeared.
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And he was rejected.
So that that week has not yet.
Been trying to take it's not yet taken place because everlasting righteousness hadn't been brought in. He was rejected and solo part of what we might say was started in his being here yet because they didn't accept him has to go through it again. So I have represented that by this line here and this is the first half of it, but it's divided into half a first and the second-half.
And that is the second-half. Well, Scripture doesn't tell us just how soon that week starts.
So I have indicated here that there's an unknown space of time. We don't know how long for. The week cannot start until we have the parties to that covenant that's to be made when the week starts. That is the Jews being gathered back to the land.
And.
They are going to have a king over them.
But they will be under the subjection of the Roman Empire. Well, they're virtually under now. That is the United Nations really are the ones that are responsible for their being there. Look at it from a human sense. But after the church is gone, there's going to be.
A formation of the Roman Empire.
And there's two men that are spoken of. One of them is called a beast, the first beast.
Not spoken of the first beast. Well, yes, he is in the 13th of Revelation. And then there's a second well, the 2nd is the what's spoken of elsewhere as the Antichrist, and he reigns in Jerusalem as king. The first beast is in Rome.
Head of the Roman Empire.
Well.
This Antichrist, he leads the people into a covenant with the head of the revived Roman Empire that they're going to be allowed to have.
Worship in their own way for.
This one week of time tells us tonight that Daniel so.
That.
Contract is consummated and I say we have to have the parties to it, we have to have the people in the land, we have to have the king there and we have to have the head of the Roman Empire. Well, we don't have either one of those yet. That is as to the king and the head of the Roman Empire. Well then we read in the 6th of Revelation.
About some opening of some seals.
And the first one starts out with a man riding a White Horse.
And he seems to carry everything his own way. He seems going forth conquering to conquer. He is represented as a man with a bow in his hand.
That is the old archery.
And they said that was been said that that was.
A contrast with hand to hand fighting, like they used to fight with the sword. So it's more diplomatic we might say.
Concrete. And so he goes forth and winds up people.
Well, and they think that.
Everything is going to be lovely while we read in the 5th chapter of.
Vessel First Thessalonians.
There's a time when they will say peace and safety. Now the world is looking for a Superman, present time Superman to bring order out of the chaos. Well, you know they will never be able to find that man until Satan is allowed to produce him. But at the present time they have. They're in the place of having rejected the one who was the Prince of Peace.
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And so.
They will try to have peace and it will be hid from well in the.
5th chapter above times and seasons. Brethren, you have no need thy right unto you now. The scripture doesn't tell us when these things are going to be. People have tried to figure out the dates for these things, but.
They overlooked the fact that the Old Testament prophecy does not.
Have anything concerning the church? There's no direct prophecy concerning the church. We have types and shadows of it, but not any direct prophecy.
And so they try to figure out things by certain expressions. In the Old Testament, Daniel speaks a certain number of days. He speaks the weeks of years.
But they apply to Israel as a nation, not as the church, and so to try to figure out the sojourn of the church here in this world by those things is just fog. That used to be said, that the prophetic clock in the Old Testament stopped at the crucifixion of the Lord, and it will not start again until after the Lord has taken.
Out the church.
Going back and deal with these Old Testament people well, so this man goes forth and he seems to have everything his own way for a while and then we read about in the.
In the fourth verse of that 6th chapter of Revelation, there's another writer on a horse and.
That horse was red.
And said that his power was given to him, and sat there on to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword. So while everything seems to be going just like they would like to have it.
Warfare will open up again. Peace is taken from the earth and it looks like it was civil warfare. That is, it's the kill one another.
It's not me being imposed upon by other nations, but peace being taken from the earth. Well there are great fears of that now peace being taken from the earth. Great fears of the what they speak of is the communists getting in and destroying the peace of the various nations. Well that seems that follows then the third one.
They're shown in black and that is a Black Horse.
And he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And it says, I heard a voice in the midst of the four piece say a major wheat repenting 3 measures of barley for a penny seat. Thou heard not the oil and the wine.
Well, that speaks there of the of the scarcity of.
Food. Here's a measure of wheat per penny and three measures of barley for penny. Wheat was.
The food that they normally like to have.
Barry was an inferior product and so they were able to buy a measure wheat per penny and three measures of barley per penny. It shows the difference in their value. Well, when you consider that in New Testament times that.
A penny was a day's wages. Why they didn't hardly have enough to sustain life from their.
But they were able to earn to purchase.
So it speaks of scarcity and it speaks there of having balances in his hand as everything was proportioned out, just like, you know, they have done in some of the times like that that we've passed through. Well, then there is the next and the seventh verse, the fourth seed. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him.
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Well, let's speak so then of what would follow the famine, death and death and hell. Well, now I think most of us know that in the New Testament we have the expression hell, and it doesn't always mean the lake of fire.
That is, there were words in the original that are translators translated as hell, and sometimes it merely meant the not hell as the final place for the wicked, but it meant the place of confinement for those who have departed this life.
Without Christ.
For instance, the rich man in the 16th route, he tells us, died and buried, and they've had a wonderful show, but.
Tell us in hell. Well, it was really Hades she all is calling the Old Testament. He was in a place of confinement. He was in torments. Sometimes people, you know, say a man is better off when he passes out of the scene. He may or he may not be.
But then whether he had faith in Christ? So he was in torments, and he wanted relief, and was not behead. So that is what is meant here by death, and that which comes after death for the lake of fire.
Torments. We finally find in the 20th chapter of Revelation that death and hell are Hades were cast into the Lake of Fire. That state of things is abolished.
At the present time, why those that are in Hades do not have a body? The soul is separated from the body.
And when they're cast into hell, they'll have the body. Well, so we find here then that here's a fourth seal, and then there's a fifth seal.
The that was represented by this line here.
Then the fish seal, he said he saw under the altar what we read about an altar in heaven and the Revelation. And this altar I believe is generally the golden altar where they offered incense, not where they offered sacrifices. It was really for worship. Here are some that have been slain for the word of God and the testimony which they have. Well, there's going to be a persecution after the church is gone by the.
Remnant of the Spirit of God has begun to work with among the Jews.
And.
Some of them are going to be put to death.
We find in the revelation that there are two companies of those who have put to death. Well, the first company is those that are slain for the word of God. And the testimony they held as as they cried, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth? And white robes were given unto them. Every one of them was said unto them, that they should rest yet a little for a little season, until their fellow servants also.
Their brethren should be killed as they were should be fulfilled.
So it shows there that they don't belong to the church because they're crying for vengeance. And crying for vengeance is not a Christian principle. We don't find anywhere in the New Testament we're told to cry for vengeance on our enemies. We are told that we should heap coals of fire upon enemies.
That their conscience might be reached. But you read of many such prayers in the Psalms, where it really depicts the children of Israel or the Jewish remnant. In passing through this period of time. The songs largely bring before us that period of time.
In the great tribulation or the tribulation, the tribulation is divided into two parts. The 1St is a tribulation and the great tribulation. That is, in the great tribulation there is.
Intense suffering. There is suffering in the first part, but it's intense in the second part. You know, the Jews pass through a great time of trial in Germany in the last war. It's a terrible time, but it tells us when this time comes that there's never been a time like it in the earth. So.
We find these then here. It just gives us a little glimpse here of some that have given up their lives for the word of God and the testimony of the hell and there is seen in heaven.
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Well then the next seal, the 6th seal.
Says that that's the 12Th 1St when this it opened the 6th seal, though there was a great earthquake in the sun came black sackcloth of air, moon became blood, and the stars of heaven fell up the earth, even as a fig tree cast its runtime with face when she shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed. The scrolls rolled together in every mountain aisle removed all their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great man and the rich man, and the great and chief captains and the mighty man never bombed, and never freeman hid themselves the dens.
And in the rocks of the mountains, and said the mountains fall on us.
And hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is coming. Who shall be able to stand?
Well, they're passing through a terrible trial. All this thing that they had to work upon is completely gone.
Confusion is everywhere.
And.
It's quite striking the way how fearful they were. A thought was to come.
They say the great day of the drag with the Lamb has come, but it really wasn't. That doesn't take place until.
Several years later.
But they're so frightened that that's what they feel it would be, and they feel like they'd like to get away from this one who's coming in judgment. When that time actually does come that he's in judgment, why they've got organized together again. Then they're ready to oppose him. So they hear it's a premature flight. But such is man when he doesn't have peace with God.
Well, now then, I'm going back a little.
I show this line here. It doesn't quite reach over here.
But after the church is gone.
There is a fresh.
Operation The Spirit of God in this scene.
You perhaps all have heard that in the 23rd of Leviticus we have the seven feasts of the Jews. Well, the first starts out with the Passover, and we know that's typical of the.
Lord.
Sacrifice on car was crossed. That's the first piece.
Then.
After that.
There was to be, and they were to.
Bring a sheep of first fruits of your harvest and the priest he was the wave. It is an offering that represents the resurrection of the Lord and.
They wave as resurrection and ascension. So that is way before the Lord. Then there was.
A. A period of.
Seven days in which they were to eat neither bread nor parched corn or green ears, until the South same day brought it off into the floor. So the Apostle Paul refers to that in the 5th chapter of First Corinthians.
The seventh verse there.
First, out there for the old lemons, you may be a new lump, even as you're unleavened, for even Christ, our Passover sacrifice for us. So there he brings in Christ the Passover, the type of the sacrifice of Christ for us. Then he goes on to say, therefore keep the feast with, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and weakness, but the unleavened bread is in Syrian truth. Now that's the feast that we're called upon to keep.
Here, having accepted the Lord as our Passover and that period of seven days represents the whole period of the sojourn. Who might say in one way of the Church here full time here choices. Let us keep that and he tells them there not with the O 11 That is a former coordinator former lies, but with.
The young leavened bread is sincerity, truth. That is what is brought out.
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In our being brought the Lord, there is the unleavened bread of sincerity of truth. Well then, then, in a certain sense. Now going back to this chapter in Leviticus, there was another offering that was being made. They were to count in the 6th, 15th verse. They were to count tomorrow after the Sabbath. That is the the the Sabbath being Saturday.
Why on the tomorrow after Sabbath, the first day of the week so after that she had been offered they were to.
They were count after that tomorrow, after the 7th. From that day he brought the sheaf of the wave offering seven Sabbath should be complete. Well, that's 49 days. Then on the Morrow after the 7th Sabbath, why there is that's 50 days?
So.
There's 50 days. Well they call that Pentecost and that was the first day of the church is often called we read about and 2nd of that day of Pentecost was fully come. Why the Spirit of God come down and the church was forward. So there we have in type the church brought in. Well then they were told and farther on there in the 22nd verse, when you read the harvest your land, thou shalt not make clean ribbons to the corners of the field, and thou reapest neither shall thou gather any gleaning for thy harvest. Thou shalt leave them on the poor and the stranger and the Lord your God.
Well, that has been spoken of that here. These very scriptures, especially some of the New Testament scriptures are going to be left behind when we leave and when the Spirit of God begins to work with the Jews, He will start to work after the church is gone. He's not going to dwell here like He is now. Why they will pick up some of these things that we left behind like as well when they reach the corners of the field, while this leaves some of the poor and the strangers.
Well, this remnant of Jews is.
Typical here typified by the, in one sense, the word by what's left in the corners of the field. And so they will read the Gospels. They don't doubt especially the Gospel of Matthew because it takes out the Kingdom and they will learn certain things there that they couldn't have gotten the Old Testament. For instance, the Lord gives the directions there that when there's a certain time coming there to flee.
And so we find then that he's taking them up. Well, then the next.
In the next part of this 23rd Leviticus.
Uh, here we had starting in with the Passover, the first month of the year, but now we've got it over to there was 50 days afterwards. And now we come though we jump clear over till the 7th month. There was no feast in between. And in the 10th day of this month, there shall be a day of atonement, a holy convocation.
Well, really, and I skipped over somewhere in the first day of the month there was the memorial of blowing of trumpets and the Holy Convocation. You should do no serval work therein. You shall offer an offering by made by fire unto the Lord. That's their first awakening that they have.
Rejected Messiah beginning to dawn upon him. Well, then on the 10th day of the month they would deflect their souls, and that it comes more intensely to them and.
There the work starts. So that would be the beginning of their history as recognized by God and that takes in the present time. He has recognized him as having been a nation and having place. So they go on and then finally we have the spoken of the later on. I'll not take up the time to read about it, but Thursday Feast of Tabernacles. And that's the joy that they have when they really when they really the Lord comes back.
So he started to take them up.
Say we don't know just how much in a rule they'll be there. What Those little integral things move very fast these days. And especially now, like the time it take to get the Roman Empire together. It might not take very long to almost happen overnight because they've got the part of the groundwork laid already. But we don't know. Well, then we have. We've spoken up here, then we have.
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The covenant and they're supposed to be allowed to have their their worship and.
So things seem to be going along pretty well. Well then we we're reading there in that 6th revelation that there were some that were slain though during that week for the Word of God and the testimony they held. Then there is another character that's brought before us.
In the Revelation and.
We find that.
There is a woman spoken of in the 17th of Revelation.
And.
She.
Is an awful character in the foster John can't understand.
Says He carried me away in the 17th chapter, in the third verse in the Spirit into the wilderness, and.
As I saw a woman sit upon a colored piece full of names and blasphemies, having seven heads and 10 horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colored and decked of gold and precious stones and pearls, and having gold and cutting her hand and full of the abomination filthiness or fornication fauna. For it was a name written Mystery Babylon, the great Mother harlots, an abomination of the earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the **** of the Saints, with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, whom I saw her. I wondered with great admiration. Well, admiration is the wrong word there. And.
Other translation that he doesn't say admiration, he wondered with.
Great wonder, I believe it is. He couldn't understand. He recognized, I believe, who this was. And to think of the change of the church being instituted by the Lord and he sees this awful character. Well, she's grumping with the blood of the Mars of Jesus. I take it that would be the blood of the martyrs all the way back.
During this dispensation, you know the Lord has a way of doing that. He told the disciples that.
The blood of the martyrs from Zacharias or Abel down to Zacharias was going to be charged up to that generation because they're looked upon as coming to the climax of their awful deed in the rejection of the Messiah. So clear back to Abel's phone be charged up to that generation.
So here it looks as though this woman is charged with the blood of the martyrs all the way back. Some of them she was responsible for, the great part she was, some she was not. And.
He said he wondered. So the Angel tells him. I'll tell you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carried her, which has seven heads and 10 horns, and the beast that Sauce was and is not shall send out of the bottom of the pit.
And go in perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wander, whose names are not written in the book of life, the foundation of the world, when they beheld the beast that was and is not yet is. Here is the mind of the chat wisdom. 7 Heads are the seven mountains on which the woman said, well, the seven heads and the seven moms of the city of Rome. It was called the city of the Seven Hills, and that's her headquarters.
And there are 7 kings sometimes in the.
Revelation the Beast has spoken of as the man who controls it, and sometimes as the empire itself. Well it says here there are 7 kings, five are fallen, one is and others not yet come when he comes. Continuous short space.
Well, in John's days there had been.
7 forms of government all there have been kings and councils and.
Tribune's different forms and the empire as such was only fairly recent in John's time. That is, Julius Caesar wanted to be the emperor, but he was playing before he got to it. But they instituted the Emperor ackwards, and they called their groomer Caesars so.
There was five were fallen. There was 5. Forms of government had run their course.
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And one is that was the emperor. That form of government continued and then it says.
And the other is not yet cometh, and when he cometh, he must continue for a short space. So we have then a condition of things here. Well, I don't doubt that this woman is what is represented by.
The progress of thy Tara. No, when you're reading the second of Revelation, you had an awful.
A count there of five Tyron her misdeeds.
And.
All of christened them, no doubt, as the Church is gone, if we'll be headed up in Rome. So that would be the woman we had here. No, it mentions there in the second of Revelation, which has been quite a number of people.
The second chapter of Revelation Speaking of this woman says I will kill her children with death, and the churches shall know that I am he that searched the hearts and the range. Now give unto every one of you recording your work. So this woman has children. Well, they've often asked who is who are the children?
Well, of course we know that there are organizations within the church versus you have the Jesuits and other organizations.
But.
Very likely it goes farther than that that it.
Prophecy ISM will show itself to be children of the woman fast. Getting that way now.
And.
So we see the heading of the rock. Well, you know, it tells us in the last church mentioned there, they had to see other and the Lord comes, He's going to spear out of his mouth.
That is, he'll take the true render to glory with him, but the rest of it, he'll leave here and don't die. They'll all be headed up in Rome. Well, now then, it tells us so.
Something.
2 Thessalonians.
The second chapter.
In the second epistle.
The Thessalonians, evidently.
Disturbed by some telling him at the day of the Lord had come.
It's remarkable how much the Apostle Paul told them about these things. Apparently from the record in the Acts, he's only there about 3 weeks. Here are these people that converted to out of heathen idolatry and I've been saved a short time. But he had told them about some of these things 'cause he says here in that 5th, 1St, that second chapter.
Speaking here about the Antichrist and these things, remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things, and now you know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed at his time. For the mystery of enacted that already worked. Only he who now letteth or hindereth will let until he be taken out of the way.
Here he's been there about 3 weeks and these new concerts, he tells the mall these things. Well, at the present time we wouldn't hardly think of doing that because it wouldn't be up to it, but I believe it shows the activity.
Of the Spirit of God in that day when the church was all one and he wasn't grieved by the way he must be now with what's going on.
Christ. And so there was an activity there that.
We don't know anything about the day.
I remember reading about one servant of the Lord and two or three generations past.
He remarked, he said he didn't doubt that the apostles had far greater and more direct guidance of the Lord than what we have at the present time. But even then the apostle Paul tells us how that one case he is safe to go, but then he and he suffered not spirit suffered did not so that even then.
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He was a man of light passions as herself. If he'd had everything like that just go right straight through and always had everything open up before him with a spirit of God, while the rest of them have been so discouraged by such a record that we would be terribly.
Well and just in terrible state of so we think how we failed and there's no hope for us. So the Lord did allow men of that kind.
To have those seasons that might realize that.
While we may not be up to it yet, the Lord hasn't forsaken us and hasn't given us up. Well, He tells us here now then that there is. There are two things here in this second chapter. First, and now you know what withholdeth, that He might be revealed in His time. Here's something that's withholding and He might reveal, Well, He's been speaking about this man of sin.
In the third verse he says there come a falling away. First a man of sin be revealed, the son of Perdition. Well, that's this Antichrist. And he tells them that.
Now this is what was holders. Well some have thought that this in this instance.
What with force is God using the powers that be under?
What Christian influencer is in the scene and there is some still that that he withholds things developing as fast as Satan of heaven. If it's here, then we go on farther.
In the seven first.
For the mystery of iniquity, that already worked. We can see it working around us on every hand. Well, we're not going to be.
Be occupied with it. We've got better things to be occupied than Mr. Nicki. That's working. We always find things that are going on wrong, and we know they'll never be right until the Lord comes and reigns in righteousness. So.
Tells me that seven verse only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out away there. It mentions a person he he will hinder until he be taken all the way. Well, who's the he? Oh, that's the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is dwelling in this scene and he's going to be taken out when the church comes no longer dwell here. He will still work here like he didn't know investment time before he took up his dwelling here.
And so he will be working, as we say here, and working with Jews at that time, and he will.
Exercise him about searching the Scriptures, and we realized too, He'll bring him into a state of great exercise and mourning too over the Messiah. You'll find that in.
When you have the time to be taken, but in the.
I think it's the 12Th of Zechariah. I had it down here on that sheet.
12Th of Zachariah.
Sachar's next last book in the Old Testament is one of the post captivity profits.
In the 10th verse of that chapter.
And I'll pour out upon the House of David, upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication. They shall look.
Upon me whom they appears, they shall mourn for him as one mourn for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him as one, and in bitterness for his first born. In that day there should be a great morning in Jerusalem, the morning of head rhythm in the valley of Megadon. The land shall mourn every family part, the family of House of David apart and their wives apart, and the family of Nathan apart and their wives apart, and the family, the House of Levi apart and their wife apart. So there's going to be an intense mourning that will take place.
Later on, I think just before the Lord comes.
So we see here then that there is one coming. He's called the Antichrist. He's called under different names here. He speaks of him as the man of sin in the third verse, and he's spoken of in the eighth verse. And then shall that wicked be revealed? Is there a wicked man?
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And says even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders.
Well, then in the the apostle John calls him the Antichrist. In the second chapter, the first epistle called him the Antichrist. And then in the Revelation he's spoken of as a false fraud, and he's spoken of as.
Another beast in the 13th chapter and in the Old Testament he's called a king, so he's under many names.
Well, now tells us here something then.
After this.
One is taken out of the way in the eighth verse, and then shall that wicked be revealed, when the Lord shall consume the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming.
He ain't even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And then for this, 'cause God shall send them a strong delusion, they shall believe a lie.
Well, here we have here then that working of Satan, all signs and powers and lying wonders. Satan's going to perform some Mary who's this beast going to perform miracles. But tell us here they're going to be lying on there's there really won't be miracles, but appears so one writer said many years ago, rather remarkable. I think that he saw it. He said that he supposed that there would be.
Certain of the elements that man hadn't discovered as yet, that they would discover, and they would.
Do certain things with those elements and they put them off as miracles. And there are signs and lying wonders where he spoke of it. And it's rather remarkable. We see that happening all around so.
It says these people then that here there's going to be believe a lie and.
They're going to be sent a strong delusion. Well, there's the working of Satan. Satan be turned loose and he'd be allowed to work things according to his own will.
Accept certain things in connection with a remnant. You'll only be allowed to go so far, but as far as man is concerned, he's going to work things according his own well. Well, now in that tenth verse, the Second of Thessalonians.
Even him whose ninth verse is coming is actually working as Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth.
That they might be saved, You know, that's that expression. The love of the truth is a remarkable expression.
We read in fourth of Ephesians about speaking the truth in love. You know, sometimes you hear people talking about the plan of salvation and so on. Well, we don't read about the plan of salvation and Scripture. Well, it doesn't say here that these people.
That they hadn't received the plan of salvation, or that they hadn't received the truth, they might have heard it.
But they never took it to heart.
They didn't see in that plan of salvation the love that was behind it. God was acting in love for this scene. They didn't see that. Well, a natural man can't see that. It depends on the working of the Spirit of God within. For the natural man to perceive that he has to be born again. He might read a book and read about it all about the plan of salvation and never touch his heart. So these people here.
They.
Receive not the love of the truth, and they are held responsible for it. So we shall send them a strong delusion, shall believe a lie, that all they that might be damned, who believe not the truth that but had pleasure in unrighteousness. So they went along with that knowledge, had pleasure and unrighteousness. And so when this man comes, this came here with all his miracles and power of the.
Able to manifest.
Why? They're going to believe it. Well, I take it that when he first comes as the king, he doesn't display all those characteristics at first.
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He is the nominal head of the Jew, and he allows them go on outwardly with their form of worship. But it tells us in Matthew the.
24th of Matthew.
That there's going to come a time when he's going to change.
The 24th of Matthew and the 15th verse.
There the Lord spoke of he is there, they round up, there's words there for the remnant and speaking about the remnant reading the Gospels while they're going to get some directions out of this chapter about what to do.
So we know they're going to search it because the Lord has given them that direction. Well, we.
We learn that this man.
Sets himself up in the temple of God claiming himself is God and he makes an image of the first beast. I take it the second beast caused an image to be made of the first one and they have to worship him?
Well, in this 24th of Matthew, the 15th verse.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. Whoso readeth, let him understand.
Then let them which be in Judea flee under the mountains. Then him which is on the House stop, not come down, take anything out of his house, neither let him which is in the field turn back to take his clothes, and so on. Then they're to pray that their flight be not in winter, For then shall be great tribulation, such as he was not since the beginning of the world to this time no one or ever shall be. Now there's what the Lord tells them about. There's going to be.
An image set up there well now.
We read in the ninth of Daniel.
When that time kids and it's also mentioned, it's brought before us in the revelation.
I'm not in the same way. It isn't Daniel. The 9th chapter is Daniel.
I have referred to this night to Daniel.
And the.
Well, I'll start to read the 25th verse. Know ye therefore, and understand the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem of the Messiah. The Prince shall be seven weeks and three score in two weeks. And the streets should be built again, and the wall even troubles tides. Well, that refers back to their building of the wall. Nehemiah was instrumental in their building it and restoring the city.
Those that return in Ezra's time were exercised about the temple being built. That was felt 1St and then afterwards Nehemiah was exercised. There was no protection for her. Well, you know, in a way.
The building of the temple answers to worship, and so when the Lord began to gather to His name, it was first that gathered to his name and worshipping him.
Without human arrangements.
But then as they went on, they found they had to have a wall of separation. And that is what Nehemiah, some years after Ezra went back. Ezra was not the first cup in the first company, but Nehemiah was exercising here. The enemies around could come in and he didn't like that. So he was excited to get that wall though, and he did. And so it's referred to there that Walden restoring the city. So it goes on to say here then.
After three score in two weeks, that is, there were seven weeks in the restoring of the city underneath. Then 62 weeks after the 62 week shallow Messiah be cut off. Messiah came and he was cut off, but not for himself.
That is, it wasn't for him because as far as they were concerned, while they were rid of him.
But not for himself. And the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. In the end there is shall be with the flood. Under the end of the war, the desolations are determined. Will the people of the Princess shall come.
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That's the Roman people. The Prince that was to come first was Titus. He came and destroyed the city.
8070 And then the people of Prince of Chaotong, while they're going to destroy the city and sanctuary, and there shall be a flood at the end of the war, desolations are determined. Well, now the people, the Prince shall come, while they're going to confirm this covenant. Here it says in the 27th verse with many for one week.
In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to seeds for the overspreading of abomination. The Lord called that abomination maketh desolation stand in the holy place. But here this man, he in the midst of the week, that's in the middle of it. Why he sets up this?
Image doesn't call that here, just called an abomination because that's what idols were on the side of the Lord.
And so.
He shall make it desolate even of the consummation that determines shall report about upon the investment. So then there is the middle of the week, and then there's that great tribulation that the Lord has spoken of in.
The.
Gospel of Matthew. So we find then that here.
The Great Tribulation Long Island. Want to say something about the woman? And then I'll stop, friend. Something more about the woman. So if it takes over to this point.
In the 13th of Revelation, oh wait, oh, in the 13th we have the two beasts mentioned, but I want to go back to that 17th chapter.
The.
Blend first we get down to blend first. And the beast that was and is not even he is the 8th and is all the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the 10 horns which are 10. There are 10 king 10 horns which thou sauce, or 10 kings which have received no Kingdom as yet, but received power as kings one hour of the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength under the beast.
So there are 10 kings over this revived Roman Empire and they give their power to the beast. It's apparently not the same kind of an organization as the old empire where it was conquered by the power from Rome, but it's more a coalition of power. Well, we see that work now we in this common market in in Europe. That's sort of a forerunner to it.
Where are they all getting together? Cooperate together? Well, here then they.
Cooperate together, and they had one mind of the beast. Well, it says they shall make more of the lamb.
And shallower and the Lamb shall overcome them. For the Lord He is, Lord of Lords and King of kings, said that they were afraid that the dead of the wrath was come when they were in that 6th seal.
And when he actually does come while they're ready to make the floor with him, but then tells us something here about the woman.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sauce where the horse sitteth, are peoples bottle tooth, and nations, and tongues, and the 10 horns, were thou sought upon the beast. These shall hate the war, and shall make her desolate naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God had put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and agree to give their Kingdom under beast until the words of God should be fulfilled. That is, when the Lord comes out of heaven, he won't have to deal with a woman.
She's been already dealt with by these kings.
They hate her. I take it that perhaps in the first part of the first half of the week. Why the woman?
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Is prevailed upon by the beast.
To go along with them and they'll support her. So she's riding the beast, but it's merely a support and later on she assumes control.
And then?
She.
Evidently by her duplicity, because she is very solemn.
She is hated by those kings, and they turn on and destroy her. Her destruction is not.
As.
Evidently at one all suddenly there's evidently different steps in it. They hate her.
And they make her desolate something like, you know, when they took.
Away from the Church of Rome, all her possessions in England, the time of the Reformation, Henry the Eighth, why they simply appropriated her, her possessions and she had a lot of possessions.
Buildings and grants of various kind. Well, they took them away from her and they turned it over the Church of England. So in a way that was making her desolate and making her naked everything away from her. Well, there may be something of that kind here. That is, they first do that and then finally she's destroyed so.
She meets her destruction before the Lord comes.
Well then after that though.
They go forth to make war on the land.
And so we find something as to that, the 19th of Revelation, we find something as it to it, and the second Psalm, where it speaks the bodies coming from heaven. And he shall laugh at them when they seek to oppose him.
So that brings us over to antibiotics, to the time when he comes forth. Well, perhaps.
We might stop there. I didn't say anything about the 7th seal because the 7th seal.
Leads us into the trumpet judgments. It's out of the 7th seal the seven trumpets come and I have no intention of going into the question of the trumpets and the Lyles because just merely giving an outline here of.
About the way things would take place.
So.
Perhaps we can leave it there then, for the time being.
Of Well, let's see, we'll sing 3 verses of #260 Lord Jesus, come and take thy rightful place, the Son of Man, of all the themes, come, Lord the rain, or all supreme come, Jesus, come.
#260.
Oh Jesus, our God.
And.
I walk away.
From home today.
My heart goes to the brave world. So brave. Love Jesus.
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Let's come, Crown.
Crying.
What are you saying right now?
I'm sorry.
To our shadow way slam through our lives, I'm saying.