Revelation 14 MirrorWord Bible Study

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Alright, tonight we're gonna do Revelations 14. Making our way through it. And I always like to preface everything by saying this is we're looking at Revelations through a finished work lens, not some distant future lens. We're also remember, John's on a I I know I repeat myself a lot, but you we gotta keep this in mind. He's on the Isle of Patmos because of the testimony of Jesus Christ. Okay? So that's why he's there. And it's the revelation, the revealing of Jesus. It's not the revealing of the end of the world. That's what everybody teaches is not. It's another revelation of Jesus. Now he's on there because of the testimony of Jesus. So he can't just write the testimony of Jesus to all the churches, the seven churches in Asia, because the letter will not get off the island. The Romans will intercept it and destroy it. So he writes it in symbolism that they would know. That's the key to this. So anyway, uh the this is such, I mean, such wild symbolism. And I always like to say, you know, just like catching water with your fingers open, but I say, yeah, just catch what you catch and let the rest go through. I don't know all the revelations of this. I mean, I don't think anybody does. There's obviously a lot of better teachers than I am with this. And I always impress to go in the small group, other revelations of other people get one final note. I don't do all the commentary because there just isn't time. If you read it, you can do it yourself. I just try to pick out stuff I think is relevant. I mean, it's all relevant, but something to help with the message I kind of go through. But anyway, here we go. Ready? I love this. Oh wow, you've got to see this. Okay. The little lamb. Remember the little lamb that was violently slain but yet lived, right? The little lamb standing on Mount Zion. Where's Mount Zion? It's in the old city of David. If you've ever been to uh if you've ever never been to uh Israel or to Jerusalem, when you look at the Mount of Olives and you always look on the temple mound, uh down to the left is the real city, old city of David, and up above that is Mount Zion. The temple's built on Mount Moriah. Isn't that funny? The law was given on Mount Moriah, but here we're going to Mount Zion. It's symbol, sim symbolism of the dwelling place of the Father, right? So here we are. The lamb is standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000, with what? The lamb's name, which is Jesus, Yeshua rescued, and the name of his father, Elohim or Yahweh, on their foreheads. Okay? So, like he says in the commentary here, 144,000. It's plural, which is interesting in the Greek. It's plural. Note the 144,000s in plural represents a symbolic value that includes the entire prophetic significance of Jews as well as the prophetic context of the representatives representing the entire human race. 12 times 12, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 disciples, bang, bang, bang. Everybody. You know, we're trying to like look at certain people, but now here we go. This is then I heard a voice emerging from the heavens. Now, I want to just say this. When you hear a voice, I was just thinking about this this week. When you hear a voice emerging from the heavens, we think some voice is coming down, but Christ-minded thoughts are voices emerging from the heavens. You have the you possess the mind of Christ, the scripture says. You're not going to, you do. But I know this is all symbolism, and this is to describe something invisible and make it visible to us so we can understand it. It was like the sound of thunderous torrent of cascading waters, then arouse a choir of voices accompanied by string instruments which sounded like harps. And down here it says the kiraf, which is it can be a harp or a guitar, is traditionally used for joy and glad worship. It's a song, it's instrument used for a party and not a dirge or a funeral. The New Testament is a party. It is not a funeral, it is not a solemn assembly, it's a party. Anyway, in that next verse here, three. Now remember, he's talking about the 144,000, and they're on Mount Zion, the dwelling place of God, face to face with the Lamb. That's where you are, right? He's co-seated you with Christ. When did he do that? Well, you're dead and your trespasses of sins. Not after you gave your life to Jesus Christ. He did it before you even knew it. He did it 2,000 years ago. Ephesians 2, 2, 1 and down to 2.6. All right. There was a strange yet familiar newness to their song. Okay? A newness almost as if it was reflected in the face of the throne, reflected and echoed in the face of the living creatures and the elders. A song which could not be taught or learned. It is a song of the redeemed. Who are the redeemed? Redeemed means to purchase from slavery. If you're a slave, the only way, there's only a couple ways of getting out of there. One, you run away. Two, your owner lets you go, which is unlikely both of them. Or the third possibility, someone purchased you, purchases you. Jesus redeemed you. He purchased you from slavery. You could not get out of your slavery. Okay? So it is the song of the redeemed, those purchased, represented here in the 144,000s, plural, not a specific number, 144,000, who were bought from the claim and crutches of the earth. You were bought from the claims and clutches of the earth. And what I thought was interesting, note he says, a song which could not be taught or learned. And I just thought of a couple interesting scriptures here. Romans 119. Okay, let's see here. 119, God is not a stranger to anyone. Whatever can be known of God is manifest in a man, in man. God has revealed it in the very core of our being, which bears witness with our conscience. In other words, it's a relationship. The relationship that we have with God spurns a song in us that only you can know by intimacy. Remember, they're on the on Mount Zion in the heavenly realm, and that can be on the earth in your mind, by the way. And they're face-to-face, they're with the Lamb, intimate with the Lamb, right? Remember, we have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Peace is Irene, which is a dovetail joint. We always go, peace is a feeling. I think that's part of peace, it's contentment, but actual peace is a union. And then Fesians 3, uh 19, I just love this scripture. It's one of my fabes in the mirror. Well, I'm getting to be Australian. I'm even, you know, abbreviating words now. It says, I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on a deeper possible level, far beyond the reach of mere academic intellectual grasp. In other words, this song is because of the relationship. Nobody can learn it, but you it's it's in you. Remember in the uh Hebrews, the eighth chapter says, I'll write your laws on my hearts and my minds. It's a song that we know from the inside. All right, beat that to death. All right, verse 4. I'm getting to my fun my front here. These boldly exhibit the first fruits of the Lamb's doing. Who's doing? The Lamb's doing. He is the Savior and always is the Savior. You are never your Savior. I always like to say this. Many of us were taught, oh, you got to receive Jesus as Lord and go to the altar, yada yada yada. And then they we tell us everything we have to do to keep our salvation for the rest of our lives, which makes us our savior. I mean, I'm saying there's a lot of things we should do that are good, but you are never your own savior. Jesus Christ is your savior. And it's always by the faith in Jesus Christ, it's never by your actions and your doing. So these boldly exhibit the first fruits of the Lamb's doing, his doing. And here, in this doing, this first fruits says we are, we have blameless innocence on display and redefined. The first fruits, okay, where these people are bearing fruits, what? Of innocence. The redefined image bearers. What the law of performance failed to do, which is the law, if you do this, which is taught in churches all over the place, by the way. The law of performance, if you do this, God loves you. If you don't do this, he doesn't like you, he curses you. That's the law of performance, but we're not under that law. We're under brand new law. What the law of performance failed to do, the Lamb did. When he had, Ephesians, or excuse me, Hebrews uh 1.3, when he had past tense accomplished the written guilt, he sat down. John 1, either 28 and 29 says, Behold the Lamb of God who does what? Takes away the sin of the world. Whoom. Hebrews 10 14. For he has, this is amplified, for he has completely forever cleansed and perfected you, past, present, future. Your sin has been dealt with. What about I had a little debate with a Pentecostal guy about that today. I had a lot of fun. They are pure, unblemished in their close, in their what close association with Christ. Say I am blamelessly innocent. And this is the Lord's doing. I am pure, unblemished, in close association with the Lamb. It's the Lamb's doing. It's what God believes. Say, I am not my actions, I am who God says I am. Alright. Associated with the Lamb, I am purchased, I'm rescued out of the grip of enslavement, out of fallen humanity, representing the entire human race as the first fruits of God and the Lamb. That was He's saying this is representing the entire human race. These first fruits, redeemed oneness, have witnessed mankind's joint association in full range of the Lamb's journey, associated with the Lamb's journey, which is his death, resurrection, and ascension. They are, or we are all marriable maidens with our virginity intact. We're all born-again virgins. Their default settings are fully rebooted. Say, I have been fully rebuted in Christ. I have been declared innocent, holy, well-beloved, perfect image-bearer because of the Lamb's doing. My default settings were from the foundations of the world for Adam's time. I've been reset. I am now believing the truth about myself. As demonstrated in Christ, who is not an example for us, who is the example of us. He's the Son of God, the Son of Man. He's the King of Kings, he's the king, big king, and big lord, which I'm not, but he is an example for you. He's the very image of God, and so are you. So he comes down to the earth to show you the real you. Alright. I'm gonna I was gonna do some of this, but I'm not. I'm gonna keep on going. Trying to get to chapter verse 7, because that's where I found my little treasure this week. Anyway, this is the other, I love this. This is not make-believe or wishful thinking. Wow, being rebooted and declared innocent, pure, and holy, and a born-again virgin. It's not make-believe, and it's not wishful thinking. Well, I wish I was like that. No, it's the truth according to what God believes. No trace of deceit nor any form of blemish was found in their conversation. He's talking about the redeemed, which is us. All right. And I saw another celestial messenger, and I was thinking about this, you know, okay, celestial messengers, angels. That could these are all could also be like I think we're talking to Jesse about this. I was at his house for Easter. You know, these could also be prophets, too, and the Old Testament prophets, celestial messengers. But, you know, but this is in this context, it's celestial messenger. Celestial means spiritual, right? And I saw another celestial messenger soaring in mid-heaven. And listen, this messenger was the carrier of what? The grandest news of the ages. I just want to sit on that thing a little bit. Soaring in the mid-heavens, and this messenger was carrying of the grandest news of the ages. His mission was to announce these glad tidings, which is the gospel. The word gospel is glad tidings. Well done announcement, good news of everlasting or forever proportion to every single nation, every tribe, every language, every people group on earth a message of the greatest, the grandest news, of good news, glad tidings, of everlasting, in other words, infinite proportion, it goes on and on and it never ends. And it's to every person in the universe, from Adam to whoever ends up if there's an end or whatever, I don't know. Now, verse 7. This is what blew me away. I was telling Kanye about it last night. I had to call her because I was excited. I was excited. Let's see. Let me flip over to the scripture here. Alright. Ready? I love this. Okay, now remember this is an announcement, the celestial messenger. In a great voice, he declared, remember he's this glad tidings, this great announcement. Okay, in a great voice he declared, be awestruck with the amazingness of God. Give him glory or honor or esteem, right? The hour of his judgment has come. Wow, that sounds like good news. He is the maker of the heavenly realm, the earth, the sea, and the fountains of the waters. Okay, this is who he is. He's the maker of the heavenly realm, the earth, the sea, and the fountains of the waters. And above here says, he's got the the great, the grandest news, glad tidings. He says, and the gl and the great and the and the this great news is the hour of his judgment has come. What kind of good news is that? Anyway, I'm gonna go through this again. I love this. In a great voice, he declares, be awestruck with the amazingness of God. Now, if God's sitting up in judgment, you know, and I you know, of course, you know, oh, sending people to hell or heaven, which I'm not into that anymore, but judging the world righteous, I'd be awestruck, but meh, amazed, maybe not. But I'm gonna be amazed by this, and maybe you'll be too. Hopefully, I can I've been telling a couple people, a few people go, what? But ready? Says, give him glory. For the this is the key here, for the hour of his judgment has come. This is the grandest news the hour of his judgment has come. Isn't that good news? Now, think about this. I didn't it's the lens that you look at things through. So when we look at the, you know, I still have stupid at stupid stuff lens, I almost said it. Stupid donkey lens, since I can't say that the ASS word, stupid donkey lens, that I'm looking through, and so you see, okay, the hour of his judgment, he's gonna judge the world, right? Of the living that we go back to you know, Matthew, the 25th chapter, but how about we look at it differently? The hour of his judgment is coming. Who's being judged here? Christ is being judged. Ooh. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do that doesn't make sense, does it? The hour of his judgment has come. This is such good news. The hour of his judgment has come. It's not good news if he's judging the world and sin and righteousness. That's not good news. But the hour of his judgment. Remember, remember what Jesus said. He says, the Father judges no one. He's given all judgment to his son. And then Jesus says in John 3.17, he says, the Son did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. Isn't that interesting? I'll just read a couple of scriptures for you here. How about uh 2 Corinthians 5.21? This is the divine exchange. He who knew no sin embraced our perversions. He appeared, he appeared to be without form. This was the mystery of God's prop prophetic uh poetry. He was disguised in our distorted image and marred with our iniquities. He took our sins, our pain and shame, and birthed the righteousness in us. He took our sins and we became he we are his innocence. Now we go over to Isaiah 53. Now, if you're not getting it and you don't think I'm right, that's okay. You have that right to believe whatever you want to. So, in other words, okay, in John the 12th chapter, I forgot to say this. It says, now in the if you read the Greek Bible, it says this, when I be lifted up, I'll draw all to myself. And it's a blank there. There's really nothing there. I know in our versions it says I'll draw all man to myself, which is still pretty cool because most people don't believe that, even though they read it. But actually, above that, it's talking about judgment. So that's why you hear, like the Trinitarians say, When I be lifted up, I'll draw what? All judgment to myself. That's what he's doing here. The hour of his judgment. This is the crucifixion he's talking about right here. I'll draw all judgment on it's the hour of his judgment, it's the hour of Christ's judgment. Who's judging him? We are. The Romans, the Jews, judgment. He and he absorbs a judgment, and out of it, he knows that we're included in that death resurrection, and through it, he's gonna totally save us all. Anyway, Isaiah 53. If you don't get it, just think about it for a while. I'm sorry if I didn't do a good job explaining it. Surely he has borne, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and pains, considered him stricken, we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted by God. When they say that, we we considered him stricken, smitten by God because they because remember it says anyone hangs on a curse, everyone hangs on a tree is a curse. So they thought God hung them there, but no, they were, they thought that, but it wasn't true. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our guilt and iniquity, the chastisement, and peace and well-being for us was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed and made whole. Verse 7, he was oppressed, he was afflicted, he was submissive and opened not his mouth, like a lamb that was led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shears is dumb, so he opened not his mouth by oppression and judgment. He was taken away, and as for his generation, who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgressions of my people, to whom the stroke was due, he bore our judgment. So when he says here, the hour of his judgment, I know you can think of it as he's judging the world, but he says he doesn't judge the world. He says he saves the world only. So I know I'm beating that to death. So the hour of his judgment has come. This is, in other words, he's gonna hang on the cross and absorb the judgment of all humanity and pay the price. That's what he's talking about here, which blew my mind. All right, and the second celestial messengers, I hope, you know, if you don't, if you don't agree with that, that's okay. If you need to think about that, think about it. And the second celestial messenger followed with more good news. I love that. Babylon, the great city, has crashed. In other words, the world system. She would remember Babylon is symbolism of just the world system because remember, Babylon was the head city of the of the of the uh Chaldeans. She was she who sold herself as a prostitute to all the nations and intoxicated him with the wine of her passion will never fly again, none of her ways. Then a third celestial messenger followed and announced with a loud voice, now listen to this. This is all redemptive, by the way. I mean, when you're eating other virgins, it's not redemptive. It's like casting out and separation, but here it's redemptive. Then the third celestial messenger followed and announced with a loud voice that whoever worships the counterfeit lamb, which you mean if you think about that, it's a counterfeit religion. And it can be in the name of Christianity, by the way. Remember over in the seventh chapter of Matthew, it says, you know, beware of false prophets. There'll be wolves in sheep's clothing. In other words, you'll know them by the fruit. If you if they're preaching law, even law and grace, the people that listen and believe will bear thorns and thistles. So, whoever worships the counterfeit lamb and its image and receives its character in their thoughts and deeds will drink of what? The wine of God's passion. Now that sounds bad, but the wine of God's passion. That's passion. Or that word is wrath, it's orgy. Right? It's passionate desire. What is the wine of God's passion? Love. Intense forgiveness. It's not not hanging you on the cross or killing you and destroying you. Well, drink of the wine of God's passion. I love this. Undiluted with water, not watered down, but intensified with the spices in the cup. In other words, made stronger. They shall be tested as one tests gold and silver with touchstone, which the touchstone is something that that measures the purity, with fire and brimstone, in what? In the immediate presence of the Lamb. And those who have already discovered their wholeness mirrored in him. Now listen to this. The dross of their deception will be exposed and cleansed. What is the fire for? Cleansing. Not separation, not H E double toothpicks. Anybody ever say H E double toothpicks? I'm teasing. It's for testing to bring people from a system of you have to do to become to realize the Lamb's perfect, complete work where you have your sonship restored, your innocence restored, your face-to-face relationship restored already. Ephesians 2, 1. I love it. While you were dead in your trespasses and sins, what did he do? The first six verses, skipping over a couple. One, and what you so to think about that you're dead in your trespasses, not after you had an altar call, you're dead in your trespasses and sins. What does he do? God raised you up with Christ, gave you the life of Christ, and gave you joy seating with him in the heavenly spirit by your virtue of being in Christ, before you knew it and without your permission. And if you received Christ and came to know him, I don't care if you did the sinner's prayer, walk forward, or just your bedroom had a vision. It doesn't matter. You just came to the revelation of what always was true about you. It was always true about you. You just came to realize like, whoa, whoa, how did I get here? Most people are, you know, they realize that they still think that they're the bottom of Mount Zion trying to climb the mountain by their good works. No, no, you're on the top of the mountain. You're face to face with the Lamb. You're face to face, you're actually in union with the Lamb, sharing his relationship, face-to-face relationship with the Father right now. Wake up, brothers and sisters. All right. Where was I? Sorry, I don't have my wife sitting next to me telling me where I am at. Okay. Okay. I'll just do nine. So, no, I was in ten. Here I am. Okay. Okay, here we go. I'm just gonna go on to verse 11. All right, isn't this good stuff? And you know, we're gonna talk about the harvest of the wheat and the uh grapes. Do we have a little communion there? Oh, what do you make of wheat? Oh, you make bread. What comes from grapes? Wine. Isn't that amazing? Oh, we got the grandest news. He takes on the judgment, and this is the crucifixion, the death, and resurrection that we're included in. Oh, and we're gonna see a little bit of wine, a little bit of wheat. Those worshipping the counterfeit beast, which is the with the which is the world system and its image, received its mark and name as their identity. In other words, their mark and identity is that's what they're taking. They're emulating what they see. We're all imitators. You would imitate Christ or you imitate the world, right? We'll have nowhere to hide day or night. The smoke that rises from their testing will evidence their what? Cleansing from all angels. They'll realize they're cleansed. We're all being, you mean the tech, you know, I mean, I think Jesse said we're all we're all subject to frustration. So that so someone, so God could what? Give mercy to everybody. Commentary. The mindset of the counterfeit religious system has no future. The message of the cross is the touchstone that reveals the goal, that will forever bear testimony to the what? Triumph of the Lamb. The finished work, the triumph of the Lamb. The cross did its work. I gotta say, I guess gotta go. I just got another scripture in my head. I just gotta flip over to Hebrews 4. I'm having fun. You know, I you guys know how I spell God, F-U-N. In the commentary of Romans 4 12, the moment we cease from our own efforts to justify ourselves by what we do, by yielding to what? The integrity of the message that announces what? The success of the cross. God's word is triggered into action. The cross was successful. You cannot add anything to the death-resurrection of Jesus. It did the work once and for all. It's finished. That's what he said. Last thing he said on the cross, it is finished. He didn't say, it's partially finished, now help me. Don't think so. Anyway, this calls for the patient steadfast of those who have discovered their wholeness in Christ. Now, when you realize, you know, you see the people in the world or people that maybe don't understand the finished work, eh, maybe we should be a little patient, shouldn't we? He says, This calls for the patient steadfast of those who have discovered, like you, have discovered their wholeness in Christ. Amhole. Wholeness. To treasure the completeness of God's finished work and the faith of Jesus. He talks about commandments there, but this is interesting. If you read over in uh John, it talks about this too. The word hagios, which is saints, refers to somebody like you. That's whole wholeness, harmony of spiritual and body. And then the word command and tole is the conclusion, the ultimate of the prophetic purpose. It says that in Strong's, by the way. Commandment, well, it can be this, but it's the conclusion of an act, a state, the result, the ultimate prophetic purpose. In other words, the prophetic purpose being accomplished. We treasure the prophetic accomplishment of Jesus Christ. I love 14 here. This is so good. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, blessed are they from now on who see their death in union with the Lord. His death is their death. Their weariness labors follows them into this death, bringing closure to our efforts to do what his death alone accomplished. Woo! That is that's that's like taking a home run. I'm gonna say it again. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Right, then I'm gonna do my, you know, I'd like to confess. I'm gonna say this. You can follow me. Blessed am I who see my union in the Lord, that I see my death in his death, that my worrisome labors follows him into his death, bringing closure to my efforts to do what his death alone accomplished. Aren't you glad? I mean, aren't you happy that his death accomplished it and you don't have to? Because your works wouldn't work, wouldn't do it anyway. Saila. Calm, and just think about that. Isn't this good news? This is revelations. Can you believe it? This is so good. Oh my god. I think this is my favorite chapters here. Alright. Alright, 14. And now we're gonna do a little bit of we're gonna do a little bit of communion here. And I looked, and behold, I saw a white cloud and one who mere reflects. Notice it says the son of man. Who's the son of man? Well, Jesus. He's the son of God, son of man. Who are you? Son of God, son of man. But notice how he says, he calls him the son of man, with his head crowned in a gold wreath of victory. In other words, he's conquered. He was seated upon the cloud, and in his hand he held a razor-sharp pruning hook, or other would say a, you know, the grim reaper. No, you know, he's got the reaper thing, right? He's gonna harvest. And another celestial messenger appeared out of the out of the most holy place of the temple, and with a loud voice addressing the one seated upon the crown, saying this, thrust forth your pruning hook. Your hour has come. The judgment, the hour of his judgment has come. His hour has come, and when he is judged, what does he do? He reaps. We just thought we hung him on a cross, but we didn't realize that we're we're gonna be sharing his death and resurrection at the same time. He I think Baxter said it one time that he knew when he died, all creation was going to die. 2 Corinthians 5. If one dies for all, all have died. Wow. That's how he harvested on the cross. Oh, we're waiting for him to put the signal in, because look at everybody around here. He says, Thrust force your pruning hook, your hour has come. Go back to that. His hour of judgment has come. This is your moment to what? Reap the earth harvest is ready. When he hung on that cross, he was reaping. It's amazing, isn't it? I think take a shot of Godka on that one. And the one seated upon the cloud completed the earth's wheat harvest with a single sweep of the sickle, one death. Oh. So good. We we're we're always thinking about we're all gonna go before the the throne room and all this stuff, and I could explain, I can go into Matthew 25 and teach that all day long and show you what that means. But think about this. He when he is he says the hour of his judgment has come, he's gonna he's gonna assume the judgment, the sin, the the sickness, the disease on the cross. And when he does it, he's gonna reap the harvest. So we thought we're just gonna kill him. He knew that we would die with him and we'd be ascended, we'd be raised with him, and we'd ascend with him. In God's mind. You were in union with Christ when he died, you were in union with Christ when he was resurrected, and you were in union with Christ when he ascended. That's the mind of God. That's the mind of Christ. That's how God sees it. Alright, the commentary. The gathering of the full harvest of both the wheat as well as the wine endorses the dawn of the new covenant pitcher in his broken body and shed blood. Woo! This is so good. Verse 17, and another celestial messenger appeared from the most holy place. Okay? The tabernacle located in the heavenly realm. He too had a sharp pruning hook tile uh type s uh sickle. Okay, the first one, let's see here. He appeared out of the most the holy temple, that's verse 15, and now this one appears from the most holy temple, the tabernacle located in the heavenly realm. He too has a sharp pruning hook sickle. Now, this is not anyway. Yet another messenger emerged from the altar of burnt offering. Remember, they sacrificed the lamb, they did burnt offerings, didn't they? For the remittance of sins. Okay, this is the one who is charged, is in charge of the fire of the altar. He's charged to destroy the sacrifice. Remember says the the the what is it, the sacrifice was taken outside the taken outside the city and burned? He was he cried with a loud voice, telling the messenger with the sharp pruning hook to thrust forth his sickle and gather the vintage. Since the earth's grapes were bursting with ripeness. This is the this is the body and the blood. You make wine with grapes, you make br you make uh with wheat, you make bread. Jesse and I were having this discussion. I think he even told me some of it, to be honest. And he swung his sickle and gathered the vintage of the earth and cast it into the winepress of God's great passion. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so those who believe in him would be saved. When we were powerless, God had the perfect time in Romans 5. When we're powerless to help ourselves, he died. What greater love than a man lay his life down for his friends? Communion. When we eat the flesh, it's some external. Remember the there's one piece of bread, they took it 12 pieces or 13 pieces, because there's Jesus, I don't know, maybe 12 pieces, and they all ate the same bread as Jesus. It becomes the that that's representing of his death, his flesh dying goes into us, and and that thought is something external that we can see something invisible, spiritual, that we understand that we took on his death, and then we drink the cup of the wine, and there's in the old testament says there's life in the blood, and we take on his life. And what happens? So the what his great passion, what's his great passion means? Love. God's so loved. One John 4.8, God is love. Let's see here. And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed out of the wine press was as deep as the horse's bridle, and it flooded a thousand stadia, which can be 98 to 150 miles this high. And what do I think he's talking about there? Remember in the Old Testament, when they sacrificed the lamb, right? The atonement lamb, once a year, that was good for the sins of all the people. It was it was good for the sin. This is a it's a symbolism of Jesus. It was it's it sanctified every believer and every non-believing Jew, too. Believe it or not, there were non-believing Jews. It sanctified everybody. This is the same thing. This the grapes, the grapes of wrath. God's great love is poured out on all mankind. The life of the Lamb, the death, the resurrection. He hangs on the cross. Understanding says you were in union with Christ when he died, you're in union when he was raised, everybody and ascended. Anyway.