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All right, welcome everybody. It's good to be here with you. As we start, well, next week, we're going to start our verse-by-verse through the Book of Revelation. This week, we're just trying to figure out the setup and the camera angles and everything like that. So this is going to be kind of a precursor, if you will, kind of an introduction or a, a pre, uh, teaching before we get into actually studying verse by verse through the Book of Revelation.
But what we're going to do today, I thought would be go through like all of Revelation real quick and just point out the places where people get messed up. Because let's start in, uh, II Timothy 2:15. Let's start there. But because people today will go to Revelation without rightly dividing, without dispensations, they get in a mess. And I probably, last four or five years, have gotten so many emails and things like that from people where they're like, "Hey, Brother Breaker, look what it says in Revelation. Why, that's today?" And I'm like, "Uh, no." I don't. And a lot of people think we're actually in the Book of Revelation today. Well, there's a lot of the Book of Revelation that's still future. And yet, there's even some people that don't even believe that. They think the whole book is all past. So I thought what we do is rightly divide the Book of Revelation. And I'll go through and show you in the Book of Revelation many of the places where people wrongly divide, so that then we'll know how to rightly divide. Does that make sense? So that's what we'll do.
So the Bible says, Second Timothy 2:15, "Study." And that's what we're here to do. Do Bible studies. And we'll be studying verse by verse, "study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." So the Bible tells us where to study the Bible. Not only can we come together and read together, which is a blessing. You know, some countries, you can't even do that. They've outlawed the Bible in some countries. You can't even read it. Not only can we read it, we can study it together. And that's a great blessing that we have actually to be able to study the Bible. And a workman, there's a lot of work involved in studying the Bible. And, uh, on me, for sure, having to do a lot of studies for all this. But it's so you don't be ashamed. Now, why are you ashamed? Because you didn't rightly divide the word of truth. So what we're going to try to do today is rightly divide the word of truth. I'm going to go to the Book of Revelation to show you a bunch of things in the Book of Revelation because people today don't rightly divide. It's so sad. Others wrongly divide, and they wrongly divide the Book of Revelation. So today, we're going to look at some examples of where people get messed up in the Book of Revelation and how we must rightly divide it, so we're not messed up.
So the first thing I want to say is, the Book of Revelation, is it past or future? You know, there's some people out there that say the Book of Revelation, it's just a book of past and it's not future. Have you heard that? A person like that is what you call a, and I hope I spell it right, preterist. A preterist is someone who says, "I believe the Book of Revelation was finished in 70 A.D." And you go, "Well, we have a problem because it was written way after that." But they think it was written before 70 A.D. And what they do is they'll say, "We'll turn to Revelation chapter 1 and verse one." So you turn over there. And this is their argument. And their argument is, "Well, look what it says, the first verse." And it says in Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1, "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass." So they say, "See, it must shortly come to pass." So they read that first verse, they say, "And it was written, and then it happened shortly thereafter." Well, we have a problem with that. They claimed that it was written before 70 A.D. And you know what happened in 70 A.D.? The destruction of Jerusalem. And so they claimed the whole book is all about things that lead up to that, and now it's all just past history. Except for the fact that we have two witnesses from about 100 to 200 years after Jesus who said that John wrote the Book of John between 90 to 100 A.D. Now, for those that don't know math very well, that's way after 70 A.D., correct? How could anyone say, "No, that's all past"? No, it's still future. But they point to that verse, "no, shortly come to pass." Well, what does that mean? Well, Second Timothy 3:8, what does God say? What does Peter say there? "A day with the Lord is as a thousand years." A thousand years is one day. Our perspective, it's 2,000 years. God's perspective, it's like two days. That's shortly coming to pass. And who wrote the book? "Which God gave unto him." So God's the one giving the book. So when it says "shortly come to pass," in God's eyes, it's like, "Let me tell you about the next two days." In our eyes, it's like, "Oh, 2,000 years." So I don't have a problem with, uh, believing that it is still future. But there are a lot of people out there, and you, you can sometimes see it on their churches outside, it says, "We're preterists." A preterist is someone who believes that the Book of Revelation is just all over. And they go so far as say things like, "Well, you don't need to read it because it's all past history." I don't believe that. I believe it's still future.
Now, is all the Book of Revelation future? Well, some people will go to that extreme and say, "Oh, the rest of the book is all future. It's not even for us. We don't even read it. It's all for after the Rapture." Well, you start reading the book, it talks about seven literal churches that existed in the time of the guy who's writing it. So there's some past in it. But that applies to the church age, which is future. And we're in that today. We're in the Laodicean church period today. So that's present. So I say it's a book of past, present, and future. And so there's a lot of stuff in here for us today. But there's a lot of stuff that will be in this book that is after the Rapture. So it's telling us the future. Who doesn't want to know the future? It's great to know what's going to happen. So what's great about the Book of Revelation is we can read it and know what's going to happen in the future. But we've got to understand, it's still a lot of future events. We are not preterists. We don't believe that, "Oh, that book's all over. Just don't read it." And one of the things I found is people love the Book of Revelation. They're like, "We can't wait for your verse-by-verse Bible study because they want to know the future." And what's amazing is that's just about to happen. Some of the things in this book. So as we're reading it, what's exciting about the work of Revelation is saying, "Oh, look, this is coming to pass." So that it can come to pass over here. Hey, it's all coming together, just like the Bible says, so it can be just what it says is going to be. And we're already starting to see things like that, like the river Euphrates drying up. It's already drying up and things like that. So in God's eyes, it's a short time. Shortly come to pass. In God's eyes, it's only like two days. So it's all how you look at it.
Now, there's, uh, a lot of things in this book that is very important for us to understand for today, to rightly divide. But one of the most important things to rightly divide this book is go to Revelation chapter 1. I don't think I can ever remember anyone telling you what I'm about to tell you, and it's just like right there in front of your eyes. And I don't know why people don't, don't look at this. But in Revelation chapter 1, verse 4, "John to the seven churches which are in where? Asia." Okay. So he says to the seven churches that are in Asia. It should be down there in verse 11 as well, is saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia." Now, that's interesting. Asia. Let's go back to Second Timothy 1:15. Because Paul, and we're under Paul's ministry today, he's the Apostle to the Gentiles. And heart of New Testament doctrine is Paul's Epistles, right? In Second Timothy 1:15, Paul says something very strange at the end of his ministry. Second Timothy 1:15, "This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes." Isn't that weird? So we're under Paul's ministry, and we're following the doctrine given to Paul, which, number one, was the most important, justified by faith. And yet, the Book of Revelation is given way after Paul, and it says to the seven churches in Asia. That's the seven churches that turned against Paul. Isn't that weird? Nobody ever seems to point that out. I find that so strange. So when God is dealing with them, and he says, "I have this against thee, I have that against thee." Well, first thing is, it sounds like they turned away from the true gospel. So it sounds like they're, I don't know, apostate churches. So we have to rightly divide that as well. Because when we start reading about these churches, some people try to say that what it says is for us. And there's some places where it sounds like someone can lose their salvation. Well, that's not us losing our salvation. So it sounds like there's more of an application over here. But yet, the Book of Revelation is so many different layers. Sometimes you read a Bible verse, and it's got one application. Sometimes you read a Bible verse, it's got a double application. Well, the Book of Revelation, it's like a triple or a quadruple application. So when we get into these seven churches, it's seven literal churches in the time. It's seven church periods. It almost sounds like it could be seven churches during the tribulation as well. And so it's just incredible how everything just so. I won't be able to get in as detailed as I want. And when we go verse by verse, we'd be here for like 10 years. So what we're going to try to do is is just give you what it says and try to give you the, the basic teaching of the Book of Revelation. But much of, um, the book is, is still future. And much of the Book of Revelation is all about after the Rapture. And what happens from here to here. That's what most of the book is about. But we can still find some things in there for us today. For example, Revelation 1:5. Revelation chapter 1 and verse 5. This clearly is for us today. And this lines up with Paul. Because John and Paul, I believe, got on the same page. Now, you've got some of these hyper-dispensationalists that say, "Nope, we only read Paul. We don't read John or any of the others." Well, I read Peter and the others. I see how they got together with Paul and got Paul's doctrine. You can't read First Peter 1:18-19 without saying, "Hey, that sounds like Paul." Redeemed by the blood. But look at Revelation 1:5, toward the end of the middle of the verse, where the period is. Revelation 1:5b, if you will. "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." That would be us, right? Because when we're saved, we're blood-washed. So there are some things in the Book of Revelation we can't apply to us. There are some things that you could even try to make an application of today. Like today, we're in a time of apostasy, just like Laodicea. But much of the book is still future. So what we have to do is rightly divide and know what's talking to what, and when. And that's all that.
So another thing about this Book of Revelation is the Rapture. You all believe in the Rapture? Amen. And the Rapture in the Book of Revelation, when is it exactly? Is it late or early? It's right on time. Amen. But some people, so it's, it's a lot of future. Is it late or early? Well, I see an early Rapture in the Book of Revelation. But some people, they read through Revelation, they don't see their Rapture until like chapter five or six or seven. It's like, "No, no, no. Back up." When you go through the Book of Revelation, chapter 2 and 3 is about the seven churches. Okay? So you've got the seven churches mentioned. And then chapter 4 is after the churches are mentioned. What happens in chapter 4? "After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter." And immediately I was in the spirit. Here's your Rapture in type. So after the church, then the Rapture, then comes all this. That's a pre-trib Rapture. And it's amazing how the word "church" is not mentioned again. The last time we see the word church is in Revelation 3:14. I'm sure I got that right here in my notes. Yeah, Revelation 3:14 is the last mention of the word church. And you know, the word church is mentioned seven times in the Book of Revelation. There's that number seven again. But it's interesting because the church appears seven times, and we don't see the church again until Revelation 22:16. And it says "churches" plural. So the church leaves in chapter 4. So everything after chapter 4, all appears to be after the Rapture. And all these events after. So I believe in a pre-trib Rapture. And I believe that's what it is shown. And I see an early, very early leaving of the church. But here's what some people do. And let's look at what they do. Some people go to Revelation chapter 5 and verse 9 and they say, "No, no, this is the Rapture." Okay? Revelation 5:9. "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." And they say, "So this is when the Rapture comes." Look at the context there. Nowhere does it say someone was caught up and taken up in heaven. John just says, "Well, I saw this, and I was already there." When did they get there? Not right there. They would have gotten there before that. Here. So that's not, uh, way later. Chapter 4 looks like that's when the Rapture is, and all the rest of the events are past. Give me another one. This is why it's so important to rightly divide. And the, the law of context, always read at least three verses before, three verses after. Revelation chapter 6 and verse 9. "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them." And they say, "See, this is under the altar. Somebody comes up to heaven and they stand before the altar." People try to say, "And this is the Rapture." Let's read the whole thing. "The souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held." What about the people that weren't slain? They got raptured. This is after verse 10. "And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?" And it says, "And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, should be killed as they were, and and and." So this appears to be people in the tribulation who died, and their souls go up to heaven. Now, you know, the Book of Revelation, how were they slain? Beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast. This isn't the pre-trib Rapture. This is people in the middle of the tribulation dying, and their soul is going to heaven. So I don't see the Rapture, a pre-trib, there. But I've had people actually try to use these verses and say, "No, that's the Rapture later than chapter 4." And I'm like, "Ah, it doesn't seem to work." Go to chapter 7. Revelation chapter 7, verse 9 through 13. "And after this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands." And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." And they say, "So this, this sounds like, uh, doesn't it, that that's Brother Breaker, that's, that's got to be the Rapture." Well, there's a great multitude there. It didn't say they just went there. They were already up there saying this. Now, let's read all the way down to verse 13. "And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?" Well, if it was the Rapture, it would have said, "Well, these were those that went at the pre-trib Rapture." That's what it would say. But look what it says. "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." That's people that were after the Rapture that came up. So the Rapture must have been before that. And then later, somebody else. So you've got to be careful, and you've got to rightly divide this book. And a lot of people, they don't. So I see the Rapture in type in chapter 4.
Now, another thing about this, when we come to this book, question is, is the same gospel preached during the Book of Revelation as that was preached for Paul? Let's go to Revelation chapter 14 and verse 6. In the Book of Revelation, we see an entirely different gospel being preached than today in the church. And you know what the gospel means? The word gospel means good news. All right? The good news from Paul is First Corinthians 15:1-4. It's Acts 13:38-39. We're saved by believing that Christ died, was buried, and rose again, shed his blood. And it's, uh, the fact that it's through justified by faith. It's not by works, lest any man should boast. So we're justified by faith. That's Paul's gospel. And in Revelation 14:6, though, here's the gospel in the tribulation. And it's an angel preaching it. Revelation 14:6, "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel." Some people say, "And that's our gospel today. That's Paul's gospel." Watch it now. "To preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice." Here's this gospel. Is this First Corinthians 15:1-4? No. "Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him." That's not what Paul preached. Paul says, "Yeah, we give glory to God, but Paul says, God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." What's this fear of God's stuff? Why is it different than Paul saying, "with the loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him: for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." This sounds like the kingdom gospel because Jesus is about to come back in his kingdom. Now, this is an angel in heaven doing this. Turn over to Galatians chapter 1 and let's hear what Paul says. See, you've got to rightly divide, and you've got to believe in dispensations. I actually went to a church one time to preach, and I pulled into the parking lot of this church, and it said, "Such and such Baptist Church," and it said, "Preaching the Everlasting Gospel, Revelation 14:6." And I just went, "They don't know the Bible, do they?" Because this is a very different gospel. Because that is an angel in heaven. All right. And I can't draw an angel very well. And angels don't have wings, but I'll put wings on it just so you'll know. Well, you know, people don't know it's an angel unless it has wings. Look at what Paul says in Galatians chapter 1, in verse 8 and 9. "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Twice he says, "Let him be accursed." If that was the same dispensation as us, then that angel is cursed by God. It must be. There's something that takes place first, and it must be the Rapture. That's the only thing that makes sense. Because Paul didn't say one thing and then another. And then, and God doesn't make errors and mistakes, right? God doesn't make where, you know, things contradict. The only way that works out is there must be a Rapture. Then God says, "Okay, here's what the gospel is." And here's an angel preaching. And now the angel is not accursed because it's a different dispensation. So do you see that? A lot of people don't get that. They don't understand that in the tribulation period, it's very different here where we live today. It's faith alone. It's by faith that we're saved. But in the tribulation, it's faith plus works. Now, when you say that, your typical preacher who doesn't know his Bible says, "Oh, no, no. That can't be wrong. No, no." And they, they just have a hissy fit. "No, no, it's always faith through every dispensation." Or they say, "I don't believe in dispensations." But God always had it, salvation by faith. Let me show you over here. Much of the Book of Revelation, which we'll see, is for Jews. And when God goes back to dealing with the Jews, he sets up a thing where there's a work involved to be saved. Remember Jesus said, "He that endureth to the end shall be saved." That enduring to the end, that sounds like a work. Let's go to Revelation chapter 12. Let me show you two passages where the gospel is different in the Book of Revelation in tribulation time than it is today. Revelation 12 and verse 17. Revelation 12:17, "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Keeping the commandments, that's back under the Old Testament. That's works. The law was a system of works that they had to do. And they said, "Well, no, I won't say by works." Well, they were saved by blood. They made a blood sacrifice for forgiveness of sins. But you know what? It took work to do that. They had to be the one cutting the throat. Someone had to pick the blood up and go off. That's work. You ever cleaned an animal? That's work. Oh, so you know, there were some works involved in that Old Testament. Well, it's faith that works over there. Look at that, "keep the commandments." Now, let's turn over to chapter 14 and verse 12. God is showing us, "Hey, it's different in the tribulation." Revelation 14:12, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ." Keeping commandments is works. Faith is faith. Faith and works in the tribulation. Now, you know, a lot of people don't believe that. It's because they don't believe in dispensations. You cannot study your Bible or understand your Bible without understanding dispensations. This is the tribulation gospel. Now, that's for Jews. What if you're not a Jew? Well, "He that endureth to the end shall be saved." And you've got to not take the mark of the beast. So when you agree, it's a work to lay down your life and let them behead you. People say, "No, that's not a work." Because it sounds like it. I mean, you're just going to go, "Well, all right, I love Jesus. Give me the mark." Now, are you going to heaven if you got the mark, just because you believe in Jesus? It's whether or not you take the mark. And that sounds like a work to me. And you have to say no, and go live in the woods somewhere and endure to the end. Good luck with that. When a third of the woods burn up, and water turns to blood, and you can't buy or sell without the mark. I've never met a person who fasted seven years and are still alive today. I've never met a person who fasted three and a half years and still alive today without buying or selling or eating. It's going to be hard to get through there. And it says in the Bible, "I saw the souls of them that were beheaded." It doesn't say, "I saw the souls of them that died of starvation because they believed in Jesus." So it sounds like you've got to be beheaded as a marker for Jesus to get up there. That sounds like faith plus works to me. So that's, uh, important and interesting thing.
Now, in the tribulation, I mean, in the Book of Revelation, excuse me, in the Book of Revelation, we've got two types of saints. And a lot of people don't get this. A lot of people think that whenever they're saints in the Book of Revelation, it's all of us today. And they've got the Rapture here in the middle somewhere, or here at the end. And so they've got the church going through the tribulation. So when they see saints, they think that's, that's us, the church. But there's two different kinds of saints in the Book of Revelation. There's us today. We who are saved today, we are saints. Did you know that? And we go up at the Rapture to heaven. A person who dies during the tribulation period is a saint. And we call those tribulation saints. And so there's tribulation saints and there's church age saints. Now, when we go up at the Rapture, we are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. Well, when we get saved now. But we go up. Well, there's somebody in the Book of Revelation that's not washed by Jesus. There's somebody that washes their own robes by themselves. Does that sound the same to you, or does that sound different? Sounds very different. Let's look at those. Revelation chapter 1:5. Well, we just read that one, so we don't have to go back there. But it said, "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." So when we're saved, we're washed in the blood. Okay? Jesus washed us in his blood. Now, Revelation 7:14. Here's somebody very different. In Revelation chapter 7 and verse 14, "And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." It doesn't say Jesus washed them. Says they washed themselves. That sounds very different, doesn't it? Those must have been those people who didn't get saved during our dispensation. And we got it all. Man, today's the best time to get saved. But then they had to endure or die for Jesus. And then they go up. And Jesus says, "Well, there's the blood. Go wash yourself." And they wash themselves. So it's different. So you got two different kinds of saints. So as we're going through the Book of Revelation, we've got to remember, church leaves in chapter 4. And this is all going to be about that. And that's going to be about the time when people are left behind.
Now, do we see a pre or mid-trib Rapture? Pre-trib or mid-trib in the Book of Revelation? Well, I always see a pre-trib. People send me videos, people send me verses, people try to sway me and say, "No, Breaker, it's a mid-trib Rapture." I go, "Okay, well, look at it again." And I look at it again, and I go, "Nope." Every time I look at it, I just keep seeing the pre-trib Rapture. Thanks for trying to change my mind, but it's not working too well because I know my Bible too well. And in the Bible, I see a pre-trib Rapture. The church must leave, must leave, for God to go back to dealing with Israel. And this Book of Revelation is a lot to do with Israel. The church leaves in chapter 4. The rest of the Book of Revelation is four separate tellings of the same events. So there's these visions that John has, and it's like four different times he has a vision. And it's tribulation, Armageddon, millennium, tribulation, army. It's like four times in a row. Now, why is that amazing to you or to me? But why should it be amazing to you? Because the New Testament starts with four separate retellings of the same thing: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the New Testament ends with four separate retellings of the same thing. I just find that amazing. God must have done that. I don't think man's smart enough to think of that, right? So God's trying to show you, "Hey, four and four." So when you read that book, you see it over and over and over. We've got tribulation, Great Tribulation, Armageddon, millennium. Now, do you guys know the difference between the tribulation and the Great Tribulation? Tribulation is seven years long. So from here to here is seven years. But the Bible cuts it in half to three and a half and three and a half. And this last three and a half is the Great Tribulation. And that's when all the bad stuff happens, like God pours out his wrath and things like that. And so three and a half years is 42 months. It's also 1,260 days. 1,260 days. And you read through the Revelation, it says for 1,260 days in one part. It says 42 months in another part. It says "a time, times," that would be at least two and a half of times, three and a half years. So the Bible is very clear. There's going to be seven future years that we call the tribulation period. The Bible calls it the time of Jacob's trouble. It's the final week of Daniel, seven years. But it starts with the three and a half. The last three and a half is the Great Tribulation. And so you see all this in the Book of Revelation. If you know your Bible, you can understand it. So chapter 11, we don't have time to read chapter 11. But chapter 11, guess what? It's about two witnesses who show up. Are they showing up for the church, though? They're showing up for Israel. So it's for Israel. Chapter 12, you've got the woman, Israel, fleeing into the wilderness for how long? 1,260 days. So there's Israel again, the woman, and Israel. Chapter 13 talks about the Antichrist. And I'm going to read all of it. But it's a part there where it says, "He continues," verse 5, "how long? For 42 months." So most of the Book of Revelation is about Israel in the future. We're just mentioned like a church in the first couple of chapters. Then the rest of it's all future events after that. Things are coming past. So you got to understand that. And I see a pre-trib Rapture. We have to get out so that God can go back to dealing with Israel. Because that's what the whole thing's about, going back to dealing with the nation of Israel. And how can you miss that? Except you're one of those people that believes God's done with Israel. What are they called? Replacement theology. That the church replaces Israel. Well, that's pretty dumb. And I think that's been shown to be an absolute lie. When in 1947, the U.N. partitioned the land so that the Jews could come back. 1948, they declared themselves a nation in, uh, in the U.N. In 1949, they started the, is it the Knesset? They started their government again. So you've got those years where God has started the nation of Israel all over again. And not only that, we see some amazing things on top of that. And we'll get into that here in a minute with some signs in the Book of Revelation. And it looks like some of those signs might have happened. Because like I said, it all points to Israel. Let me tell you about that here in a minute, of how what happened to Israel when this sign suddenly showed up in heaven.
Before we get there, let's look at this. When we get into the Book of Revelation, we have to talk about the 144,000. Because there's two chapters in the Book of Revelation that talk about 144,000. Now, I'm going through you, showing you all these places because I'm trying to help you. Don't be one of these people that don't rightly divide, because they fall into a false teaching. One of the greatest heresies in the history of the world was this movement called the Jehovah's Witnesses, started by a man who didn't believe in hell. And I was very deceitful and lying and a lot of things that he brought forth. And one of the things he taught out of the Book of Revelation was that only 144,000 people will be saved by God. And so he started his church. And then all of a sudden, was it in the 60s or 70s, they got to be more than 144,000. And they were like, "Oh, no. There's more in our church than we say can be saved." So what did they do? Well, I guess a lot of people in our church, they said, "I'm sorry, you can't even be saved." Well, why even be one? But they said that they're one of. I've met Jehovah's Witnesses, and they said, "I'm one of the 144,000." I said, "Oh, really? So let's look at the Bible and see what it says about them." Let's go to Revelation chapter 14. Revelation 14 and Revelation 7 mention 144,000, which is divisible by seven. So isn't that amazing that 7 and 14 are the places where they're mentioned? Revelation chapter 14, look what it says. "And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads." Now, as you begin to read through here, you find out who these are. And they are not the Jehovah's Witnesses. Every Jehovah's Witness that I met that told me he was one of the 144,000, I said, "Oh, so you're a Jew?" "No." "Oh, so you're unmarried and you're a virgin?" "No, I'm a married and I got kids." I said, "So you're a liar, then." Because let's read what it says. The 144,000 were, verse 4, "These are they which were not defiled with women: for they are virgins: these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb." So they're not the Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, guess who they are? Turn over to Revelation chapter 7. They're Jews. And the Bible is very clear that the 144,000 are Jews. So if you're not a Jew, then you're not 144,000. And if you're married, you're not one of the 144,000. Look at this in chapter 7. It says, "And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel." Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. These are your 144,000. And so there's 12,000 of each tribe mentioned there. So that cannot be the Jehovah's Witnesses. That's one of the greatest cults in history. You know, there was countries all over the world that kicked them out because they said, "Man, we're not even saved, but we know you can't be what that Bible says you think you are." So you got to watch out for what they call the Jehovah Win back when, what do they call them? Sorry, Witnesses. Hi there, win bags. I'm sorry. Jehovah's Witnesses. And, uh, they're really, are they witnesses of Jehovah? Are they witnesses of somebody else? Who's the father of lies? Say, yeah. So 144,000 are not Jehovah's Witnesses. They are Jews.
So another thing we see in the Book of Revelation, like I said, the book is more for Jews, is we see signs. Now, signs are for whom? First Corinthians 1:22, "Signs are for the Jews." So when we look at this, and we see these signs, go to Revelation chapter 12. Signs are for the Jews. So Revelation chapter 12, verse 1, "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." And it goes on and on and on. Well, September 23rd, 2017, people that look at the stars said, "Hey, man, that looks exactly like what it says here." And a lot of people said, "This is the sign of Revelation chapter 12 because it was up there." There's a constellation Virgo. And just so happens, it was everything the way it says it was there. The moon was under her feet, the sun was, and all this stuff. And people say, "Oh, no, no. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter." Does it? The very next year, Israel turned 70. 70th year anniversary of the nation of Israel. Just coincidence, right? How many times did 70 show up in the Old Testament? They went into captivity, came back 70 years. So I think maybe, just maybe, God did that. And like the church is watching because Israel isn't. But we know it's for Israel. And guess what happened after? Not long after, December 6th, 2017, so about two months later, Trump declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Getting goosebumps just thinking about it. That was God allowing that to take place. And God gave a sign to the Jews saying, "Hey, wake up, guys. Something good is going to happen for you." And did they accept it? Did they see it? No. They're talking about now moving it. I think Biden has tried to move it back to Tel Aviv. So they're trying to go against God. That's not going to work out well for them at all. But that was a sign. And so I believe there was something to that. But I don't think it was much for us. I think it was so the Jews can wake up and say, "Hey, it's about to be your dispensation again. Wake up, guys." And so I think that's why God allowed that and did that.
Now, do you know there's another sign in Revelation? Go to Revelation chapter 15. Now, I don't want to get too much into this, but this is pretty interesting. And I've only talked about this maybe once or twice. And I don't hear anyone ever talking about this. But Revelation 15, verse 1, "And I saw another sign in heaven." Okay? So if that sign, chapter 12, was constellations and things, well, this might have to do with constellations, right? "And I saw another sign in heaven: great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God." Well, that would be over here in the Great Tribulation when God's wrath is poured out. Now, you want to look at constellations. People say it's a sin to look at constellations. It's the horoscope and stuff like that. Astrology is a sin. Astronomy is science. There's a difference. So it's not wrong to look up at the heavens. I believe it was David that says, "The heavens declare his his handiwork." So it's not wrong to look at the heavens. There's a constellation they call the Seven Sisters. And it's seven stars. It's called Pleiades, if I remember correctly. And it looks almost like this. Looks almost like a cup. And it's starting to turn right now. So as time goes on, it's going to look like it's a cup that's about to let something pour out. And so we know Jesus is going to come back. But I'm not looking into the stars. I could never figure out that program. Whatever it was. What was that program? Do you remember? Stellarium. I couldn't figure that out too well. But if you want to look into when God is doing things, he always seems to put it up in the calendar and in the Mazaroth or whatever it's called. And the Jews would watch that. And there was a star that marked when Jesus was born. So I don't want to get too into that as a Christian because that's for the Jews. But they saw it, and they knew. Even the wise men that weren't Jews were looking for it. So there's a lot of Christians looking for it. And there's something to do with that other sign. And that goes like this. And it's like it's pouring out the wrath of God. God has it all up there like a great big calendar. And I'm just afraid that we're just too dumb to figure it out. But it's so simple. It's in the Bible. So that's just another one of those signs. I find that very interesting. Now, I mean, wow, you can't make this stuff up, right? It's pretty amazing. So that's the Seven Stars or Seven Sisters.
Now, the Book of Revelation talks about the mark of the beast. Now, there are some people out there today that say we're in the Book of Revelation, and that the mark of the beast has already been given on the world. I cannot believe that. There was some famous YouTuber that came along and did videos against people like me and said, "We're evil because we said that what has been given is not the mark. It's just the precursor because we think this is something that's leading up to that." I mean, they tried to tell the whole world, "Hey, go get this thing and take it." And many of them said and did it. Um, but where did it say, "Now, if you don't do it, we're going to cut your head off"? I don't see that anywhere. And, uh, where is the worship? Let's go to Revelation chapter 13. Now, I don't have time to read all of Revelation chapter 13. But it talks about the coming of the Antichrist, how he's assassinated, verse 3, wounded to death, and how he continues for 42 months, verse 5. And as you read all the way down here, you go down to verse 15. And it's talking about the mark of the beast. "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." So did anybody get killed? And where is the worship? When they told you to go down to your local store and get your little thingy, did they tell you, "Now, and by the way, while you're there, worship the beast"? There is no way that this thing was given as the mark of the beast. Where's the worship? Where's the killing? People who didn't take it. It's kind of the opposite, isn't it? You know, anyway. But it goes on there, and it tells you to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, verse 16. Where's that? I don't see it yet. "That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Where's the name of the beast? Who here can tell me 100% sure who the Antichrist is? Nobody. Because we don't know. He hasn't shown up yet. Because if he did, the whole world would have to worship him. And we're not worshiping somebody we don't know who he is. So how can we be in the Book of Revelation over here in the tribulation now, and that be the mark of the beast what was given to the world? I don't see it. So see how people get messed up, though, by not rightly dividing? If you just read it, you go, "Nah, I can't be what that guy's saying." Because you didn't read it. "And here is the number: Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Yes, there's a whole lot of 666s, right? And
We see a lot of 666s in a lot of areas. There's a patent, zero six zero six zero six. We see they're wanting to bring in a certain way in which people get some sort of quantum digital tattoo, but hasn't had so we're not under the mark of the beast. Now, you can still get saved. Now, if you teach that that was the mark of the beast, those that take the mark of the beast, they're not saved and they can't be saved. So, you're telling me that there's people today that can't be saved because they took something? No, I think they need salvation now more than ever. Now more than ever.
Now, chapter 17. We're going to go to chapter 17. In chapter 17, we read about the mystery and we read about Mystery Babylon. And Mystery Babylon is very interesting. I gave you a handout and we're going to look at these handouts that I gave you here in a minute, and I'll probably have to take these pictures and put them for the people online as well to be able to see. And, uh, I don't know, someone came in in the back there. If you want to give it to them. So, the mark of the beast is still future after the Rapture. Mystery Babylon, though, that is something that's happening still today. And it appears that Mystery Babylon is something that has been happening since here all the way to here when it's destroyed at Armageddon. So, this is one of the things where it's future, what's going to happen to it, but it's present in the sense that it's existing now. And I believe we've seen and we know who Mystery Babylon is. I believe Mystery Babylon is a religious system. I believe it's a religion situated in a certain place. We can find on a map. I believe it's also a political system. It is a system that has been involved in politics all over the world with kings and queens and governments. And I believe it's an economic system because it's involved in coining money. On our handout, you'll see that here in a second, but it's also involved in in trying to set up, uh, different kinds of, uh, economic systems around the world.
So, who is it? Who is Mystery Babylon? Well, I don't have time to read all of chapter 17. But it's called a great, it's personified as a woman who is dirty, wicked, loose, and and just evil. And she's made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Now, she's a fornicator, but she's fornicating with the world. Now, she sits on a beast. Over the next couple of verses, what was that thing that they just had? You should know where they had this, some sort of games. Was it in England? And they had some beast march out and and that was a, um, opening ceremony to opening ceremonies to, I forget. But why did they have that symbolism of the beast unless they know who they are? And then a woman rides the beast. Wasn't it some Super Bowl or something where they had a woman on top of a beast coming out? Why does the world always seem to do the symbolism of what's in the Bible? Just an accident? Are they openly declaring, "We're of Satan and we're doing this"? That's what it sounds like, right? So, look into that. That's pretty scary.
So, she's called, look at this, verse 5, and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great. She says she's great. She's like, really great. Is she that great? The mother of harlots and abominations of the Earth. And it's a woman on a beast. Now, look at what it says here in verse 9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. All right. So, she's situated on seven mountains. Now, you can also say hills because if you go to that Greek word, it can be translated either way. And so, she's a system that's situated in a certain place. And it's a city of seven hills. Now, I say city, why? Because verse 18, and the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the Earth. So, the woman is a city. So, check that woman out. Woman is a city. And it's a city on seven mountains or seven hills. Who could that be? Well, we know, and I'm going to show you that here in a minute on our handout.
But look at chapter 18. And look what it says in Revelation 18:1. And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power, and the Earth was lighted with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, has become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations, somehow this evil system got involved with all nations, have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. Hmm. So, we are saved, shouldn't be a part of that, right? We should be out of her. But one day she's going to be destroyed. We know when that is. There's going to be a time out here when she's destroyed. Thank God for her sins of reaching to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her according to her works. In the cup which she hath filled, filled to her double. And what does she say? Look at verse 7. I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. So, she's a woman, she's a city, and she's on seven hills. And she thinks she's so great. Who is she exactly? Well, there's only one place in the world that I know of that would match this, and that's the system known as the Roman Catholic Church. Rome is a city that's set on seven hills, and still does. And I gave you a handout there, and on that handout, I'll show you, it's the second one, the Seven Hills of Rome. And you clearly see seven hills. The city of Rome has been called two, three thousand years ago, the city of Seven Hills. Everyone called Rome the city of Seven Hills. And Rome has existed for the last 1700 years. I believe it started in 325 AD with Constantine officially. And it has done everything it can to get the kings on its side. And it has put kings in power, it's taken kings out of power, it's tried to control the earth.
Now, here on this side, look at what it's founded on. The hills that it was founded on was the foundation of paganism, pagan Rome. And there's all these pagan temples to false gods. What are false gods? Demons. And we just read in the Bible that it's full of every unclean and hateful bird and all these unclean spirits. So, that's a great place to start a church, right? And call it the Church of Jesus Christ. The place where all the pagans. And that's, by the way, that's where they killed early Christians. Gee, that's a good place to start a church. I don't think so. But you know what? The Roman Catholic Church calls itself Holy Mother Church. What? Why does it say mother? It's identified in the Bible, the bad thing, as the mother of harlots. Why would you call? Nah, just coincidence, right? Or could there be more to it?
Now, this harlot has a cup. Did you read that? Did we read it here when we read through chapter 17? It says she has a cup full of blasphemies. So, she's known as a woman with a cup. Now, I gave you this, and up here on the top left, here's a coin minted by the Vatican. And here is the woman holding a cup. Even that church itself presents itself as, "We are a woman with a cup." If you read your Bible, you can't help but see who it's talking about. If you look at who that thing is, and there she is, holding a cup. Now, down here on the left is a coin, a hundred-liter coin from Italy. And it's the Pope on one side. On the other side, it's the woman with a cup. And on the bottom, it says Fides. F-I-D-E-S. Do you see that? Fides was a pagan Roman goddess of faith, and supposedly honesty. And so, Fides. Why would they put a pagan woman god on their coins if they're truly of Jesus Christ? Why would you mix paganism with Christianity? You wouldn't. And the ancient pagans would worship their gods in orgies through fornication. Is it coming together for you? So, why would they remember those pagan gods? Wouldn't you say, "Hey, we're Christians. We don't want pagans"? Why would you mint their names on your? I mean, does that, that doesn't make any sense.
Now, where is the head of the Roman Catholic Church? It's in the Vatican. The Vatican. Huh. Isn't that interesting? You look into the Vatican. It's the center of the Roman Catholic Church. And it's situated in Rome, which is the city of Seven Hills. Here on our page here, someone sent me this the other day, and I found this amazing. In Italy, and that's where that is. The old people, way, way back when, that that ruled in Italy were called the Etruscans. Ever heard of the Etruscans? There's the Tuscans and the Etruscans. And the Etruscans had a goddess. And guess what their goddess's name was? Vatika. Just a coincidence, right? No. Nothing to see here, please move on. Here is a picture of Vatika, and she's a woman goddess with two, what, horns? Looks like a goat. Well, then that the devil, old horned goat god, Satan, Pan. So, why would you call yourself a Christian thing and then mint coins with pagan women goddesses and pictures of a woman holding a cup, and then name your main temple after a woman god, if she was the goddess of the underworld? By the way, isn't that evil? So, is that God in heaven trying to tell you, "Hey, this is how I see it"? And what I'm seeing is, that's who she is. Pagan goddess named Vatika, who is the Etruscan goddess of the underworld.
Now, what does this woman want? I could get into a whole lot more here. Maybe I should. Maybe I shouldn't. I don't want to get too much into it, but if I don't, I'll probably forget to tell you about it. I looked up a lot of the word Vatican online. Does Vatican mean divining serpent? There are some people out there to say that the word Vatican comes from an etymology, a meaning of divine serpent, who is Satan, the serpent. And he wants to be divine. He wants people to be calling him God, which is what the Antichrist does. He comes into the temple and says, "I'm God." And who's that going to be? It's going to be Satan. But the word Vatican is a combination of two words, vatic and can. Vatic means seer, prophet, soothsayer, diviner, divination. The pagans would go to their temples and they wanted to see the diviner, and they would go and they would talk to a priestess who was supposed to tell them their future. Why would you name your main temple in so-called Christianity after that? What does the Bible tell us about that? Well, the Bible warns us in Deuteronomy 18:9-12, and it says, "There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination." We're not supposed to be diviners ourselves. The only thing we have to tell us the truth is the Book of Revelation. But we don't try to find demonic spirits and ask them, "Hey, tell me what the future is," which is what the pagans did in the old days. Um, soothsayer. You know, Micah chapter 5 and verse 12 says, "I will cut off all witchcrafts out of thine hand, and thou shalt have no more soothsayers." A soothsayer is someone who's like a wizard or a witch, isn't it weird how Hollywood likes to make movies about all these witches and wizards lately? Oh, I, as a Christian, hate that. I don't want to see that. I think that's evil and demonic. It's called Mystery Babylon. Do you know that the pagan religion was called the mystery religions? The Eleusinian mystery religions. It was all about the mysteries. Masonry is called a craft. That's what they call it, the craft. There's witchcraft, and then there's masonry, the craft. So, you got to watch out for where all this stuff comes from. So, Vatican comes from vatic, which means soothsayer, diviner, divination. And it comes from can. You know the word can? What that comes from? Canis, dog. Dogs are from the Canidae family. Does that mean anything? What's funny, at the end of the Book of Revelation, it says that without her dogs are the people that weren't the true Christians. God goes, "They're just a bunch of dogs to me." Kind of interesting. I mean, just, I'm just, wow, that's interesting. Yeah. More I could get into on that, but I'll stop.
But in this world today, we see a man named the Pope who's going all over, and he's being accepted by so many people in all the different governments. And he's trying to help bring in, I don't even know what he's trying to bring in, everything, peace and safety, and get rid of carbon, and all that. He's trying to get a world united together through what's called ecumenicalism. Hope I spelled that right. Ecumenicalism. Ecumenicalism is, "Let's put aside all our doctrinal differences, and let's all just come together." No, sir. I can't do that. I'm supposed to stand for what the Bible says. So, let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 6. And I don't see how I can unite with this, knowing what it is, who it sits there, knowing how it's just paganism under the guise of so-called Christianity. I can't have a part of that. And the Book of Revelation warns me against that system. And what this system is, this Mystery Babylon system, it's building what we would call the new world, what order, and globalism. And they want the great reset. And they want to start. And so, it's all going to be economic, all going to be religion, all going to be politics, all put together. And so, the whole world will make you worship the beast. Worship, that's religion. But that's the one-world system. It's going to be a system of worshiping under this fellow. So, he'll probably be the false prophet. And then the Antichrist will be the political leader. He'll be the religious leader who says, "Worship that guy."
So, 2 Corinthians chapter 6, and we'll close with this. 2 Corinthians 6:15-18. Do we go along with this religion? Do we accept this? For almost 2,000 years, true Christians have always preached against that. You know how many people said that the Pope was the Antichrist throughout the last almost 2,000 years? There have always been a voice of people who said, "We read the Bible, and we see we need to stay away from this." And here's what the Bible says. 2 Corinthians 6:15, "And what concord hath Christ with Belial?" Who is Belial? Satan, Baal. "Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" In what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Why would you start and build in the city of paganism where all the temples were worshiping idols, which were demons? Why would you make that the center of Christianity? Doesn't that just sound like the worst place you could go? What if the demons are still hanging around there? Why would you go there? But that's what they did. "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the Living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." Well, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate," saith the Lord, "and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters," saith the Lord Almighty.
So, I think we need to get away from Mystery Babylon and not be encouraging it. But, you know what? Within so-called Christianity today, and I call it so-called, there's true Christianity, true believers, and there's those that say they're Christians when they're not. Many of these so-called big-name Christians within so-called Christianity, they have joined up with the Pope through ecumenicalism. You go to your TV stations, whether that the TBN channel and all those, you go to YouTube, you go to radio. A lot of these big-wig people who say they're Christians, they all go and visit the Pope and shake his hand and say, "Yeah, I think we can get along and work together." How do you work together with that, knowing that it comes from paganism, knowing that they're openly saying, "Look at us, we're the Holy Mother Church with the cup. Come fornicate with us," basically? Wouldn't that be what they're saying if that's who God says they are in the Bible? I don't see how I could join with Rome. Now, I could get into a lot more. There was some famous guy, was it Marzulli, who was the guy that was in the Illuminati and was in Rome as like a priest or something, and he got out, and he talks about some of the things that he saw within the Catholic Church. He literally said, "The devil is in the Vatican." Literally. Satan sits there. And through Illuminati, through, uh, used to be they claimed to be against masonry, but now masonry has gotten into Catholicism, and the craft is there. And they do all these things. Hollywood shows you movies about it. I, I don't like Hollywood movies, but sometimes I think they're showing the truth. I think there was one called, I think it was "Sin Eater" or something. Don't watch it, it's disgusting. It has that dead guy in it. What was his name? Heath Ledger. And it was about these two priests, and they go to Rome, and they go down somewhere deep, and they meet the black Pope. And to find an answer, they had to kill a person. And as the person was dying, the demon would enter into them and answer their question. And you know, is Hollywood just making this stuff out of left field, or do they, are they in it and they know what they really do there? You've got to question anything. What's going on? But there's a lot of insiders who came out of Catholicism. They told you that there's a lot of evil. You know how many children have been molested as altar boys? That's sick. How many priests do worship of, of what is it called? Santeria. If you go to Central America and South American countries and the islands, in Catholicism, they have a thing called Santeria, which is a type of witchcraft that's within that so-called church. So, there's a lot in the Book of Revelation. And we get toward the end, we're going to talk more about that religious system. But the first thing is, it's not past, it's a lot of future and a lot of applying for us today. And I see an early Rapture. I see us having to get out before all this stuff has to. I don't see the same gospel in the Book of Revelation that Paul preached. Otherwise, it's a curse. That angel would God send a cursed angel to go preach to the world? No, it's just suddenly not cursed anymore because the Rapture took us out and ended Paul's ministry. Now they're right back under the kingdom gospel, like they were before. Two types of saints. You better get saved now because it's a lot harder to get saved in the tribulation. Pre-trib Rapture. 144,000 must be Jews. The signs, the mark of the beast, and Mystery Babylon. Now, Mystery Babylon is going on now as we speak. And I believe that this guy is working behind the scenes and doing all these things to help bring in the one-world system. And it's going to be where he can be in charge and be in the sight of worship, the worship leader for the Antichrist, basically. And that's sad. And if we are wise, let him to have eyes to see, let them see. If we're wise, we need to point out, "Hey, watch out for that person." Now, every Catholic that watches me online is probably really mad, but you need to look into this. There's a book called, "What is the One?" by Alexander Hislop, "The Two Babylons." If you've never read "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop, you should read that. It's very well-documented, written in the 1800s. And he goes through and shows all the old gods of the pagans, and then how they all look just like the ones that they put out as so-called saints and things like that. So, can't wait to get into Revelation next week. We'll be going verse by verse. We'll be looking at the things that apply to us, also the things that apply to the future. But we know what the future holds. And every day as Christians, we go, "Oh, they're doing this. Well, that's going to bring this in the future." So, it's like we're getting a glimpse of what's about to happen. And we're seeing what they're doing behind the scenes now. And it's incredible. It's also sad. But our only hope is the Rapture. If there's no Rapture, there's no hope. I mean, if there's no Rapture, I'd come today and say, "Well, they're going to kill us. So, all right, have a nice day." And maybe they'll kill us before the Rapture. But there's got to be hope. And the Bible says we that are saved are the bride of Christ. And we find that way toward the end. And there's your bride of Christ, which is a chaste virgin. She didn't go through here and let the Antichrist soil her. We get out first. So, there you go. Rightly dividing the Book of Revelation. That's what we'll be doing beginning next week. And I hope it's a blessing to you. Any questions?
I guess I'm gonna go along with the, uh, ecumenicalism. Yes, sir. So, I'm pretty sure Paul, the people in this Abrahamic house are going to the general laws, which is, uh, where Moses was, yeah, where Moses, the real Mount Sinai. And they're going there to ask God for a revelation of some sort. So, the Pope, the ecumenicalism, they're doing that on the 13th. Wow, 13. So, the Pope, through ecumenicalism, is building, forget the name of the city, but they're building a kind of a tri-temple thing. So, the Jews have a temple, the Muslims have a temple, and then the Catholics have a temple. And they're all bowing, and they're all together in one place. Now, all these have gotten together with Chrislam, or whatever they call it. They're going to where Mount Sinai was, where Moses met. And they're going to go there where the law was given and try to say, "Hey, God, bless our ecumenical movement." Do you think God's blessing that? We just read at the end of this, "Come out from among them and be separate." Not go and join with other religions and denominations and things like that. "Their God will bless them." Yeah, who's their God? Well, it must be the divining serpent, because they're not following the Bible. The Bible warns us. Watch out for that. They may, they may get there on Mount Sinai, and God give them that delusion. It could be. Yeah, it could be. Or a firefall from heaven again. But it's very sad to see people that are following the lie rather than the truth. And the Bible says people will be deceived through a lie. I remember in Honduras one day, this guy came to my house and knocked on the door, said, "I'm so-and-so from such-and-such a church, and I want to talk to you." And I invited him in. He sat down. He told me he was ecumenical for like the next hour. He talked about how great it is just to see people joining together and getting together. And I just sat there like this. And he goes, "So, you want to get together with me?" And I said, "Well, I listened to you speak. Then let me tell you something." I went through for about an hour, telling him all the things the Bible said. We got done. He goes, "I don't want to join with you." I was like, "Well, I don't want to join with you because I would have to get rid of everything I believe in order to be your friend." You want me to basically don't believe the Bible, and then we'll get along? I said, "I can't do that." I said, "I want you to believe the Bible, and when you do, you can't get along with them because they don't." And, well, he didn't like that too much. But, you know, can't be friends with everybody. Can two walk together except they be agreed? What do we want as our basis of fellowship? This book right here. And this book warns us about Mystery Babylon.