Revelation 19 MirrorWord Bible Study

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All right, here we go. Chapter 19. And I just want to, as I was thinking about this week, you know, this is a tough revelations is hard. It's symbolism. And you know, some people take it so dang literally, and we're looking at through a finished work. And I was thinking to myself today, or this week, it's like, you know, we don't have to know everything. You know, God reveals things slowly and gives out revelations to each of us differently at different speeds. But nobody knows everything. And how can you know everything about God? Who knew about an iPhone 30 years ago? I mean, God just keeps revealing things and revealing things. But what he does want you to know, and I just wanted to start this in Hebrews, the fifth chapter, and he tells everybody this, and this is the revelation of righteousness. Righteousness by faith is the meat of God's word. So bear that in mind when you're getting into all this stuff. The revelation of righteousness is the meat of God's word. The simplicity of the gospel and what God accomplished in Christ is the simplicity. That's the meat of the gospel. It's not some deep stuff we find in Revelations other than the revelation of Jesus Christ. That's what the deep things are. It says it didn't say the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Everything points to Christ. And that really means the that's in this, you know, we're going to get to that verse, but that's the revelation of who Jesus is and the cross and what had happened on the cross. The battle was on the cross, and the battle was love. And you know, I was thinking about this, and I'm just, I probably should say later, but I'll probably say later. It's interesting because Jesus said the last thing he said, other than his finish, he said, forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. He didn't say, I'm going to come back and really I'm going to wallop them. He didn't say that. He said, forgive them, Father, they know not what they do. Anyway, Revelation 19.1. Actually, I should just start off by. He just talked about the Babylon, right? And then it goes on to say, with this, I heard a great multitude singing as in one voice in the heavens. Now, you know, we think of heavens way up in the sky. No, the heavens, you know, this kingdom of God is on the earth. The kingdom of God is in you and all around you. It's a different dimension, is what the kingdom of God is. The kingdom of heaven, around us, the Greek word, means a higher place, a mountain. You know, it's a higher thinking. Luke 17, verse 20, 21, Jesus said to the Pharisees who didn't believe in him, the kingdom of God is in you and all around you. It's here. So that out of heaven, there's a great voice singing hallelujah, which means it's hallelujah's Greek. Hallelujah is Jewish, means praise the Lord. Now listen, salvation, glory, and power belongs to the people, and they're and we're trying to earn it. Or no, it belongs to God. Salvation belongs to God, and he gives it out as a free gift, as an inheritance to his children, which you happen to be some. His inheritance. Alright. And now just in the commentary, because I go through the commentary and it because I have to eliminate a lot of it because it's too much. And if you do the Bible study and answer the questions, of course there's a lot of it in there, and that's great. But it says John reminds his Israeli audience of the triumph praise as the voice celebrating the great salvation wrought at the Passover Lamb of God, who is Christ. The Passover Lamb was the salvation of the firstborn of Israel and their deliverance. Now our Jesus is the Paschal sacrifice. He is our great salvation, who has become a permanent tabernacle and habitation. He's habitating in you. You are the tabernacle of God. You're not going to be. You were even before you even knew it. Paul says, when God saw fit to reveal Christ in me, he was there. The mystery that's hidden from ages and generations. Christ in you. Paul understood that. That he, that Christ was in him even before he knew who Christ was. There's a big revelation. Oh my God. Who are you, Paul? I'm Jesus whom you persecuted. Uh-oh. And that he's living in you. I'm living in you, Paul. You just didn't recognize it. Discover Christ in you. Anyway, for every one of his judgments, and his judgment, he takes on the judgments, right? In the cross. He takes on the judgments of mankind on the cross, are established in righteousness and truth. Truth, alothea, that's to reveal something that's hidden. Righteousness, dukusune, means two people finding a likeness in each other, a right way, God's way, an equalness, a cleansing, image and likeness restored. He has sentenced the great harlot system. It's the system of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is exemplified in religion and in the worldly system. You have to do to become. Instead of be who you are. You know, Fast Walk says, you know, we're trying to be who we already have always been, just like Adam tried to be something he already was and got tricked. And he never lost him being an image bearer, but he lost it in his mind. He didn't think he was. That was the problem, but he still was. This is the great harless system who has what? Caused the world to shrivel up and pine away with the poison of her prostitution. Prostitution means have an interrelationship with other people. This is a spiritual prostitution. It's not a prostitution of physicalness. It's eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil versus eating the tree of life, which is Christ. It's interesting when John when it's kind of funny this is coming up because this Holy Spirit was talking to me about this really quietly. It's interesting what John says. This is a new, this is a new theology, but yet it's old. Because it's in the beginning, but now he's brought it back in Christ. It's always been this way. It's new to us, but it's also very ancient. Anyway, he says, and vindicated the blood of his servants out of her hand. In other words, the law system persecutes the grace system. The woman of the slave, Ishmael, persecuted the woman of promise Isaac. And the people, remember, he said, you know, the woman of uh Hagar was symbolism of Sinai, symbolism of the modern-day Jerusalem in uh Galatians. And she, he, or the Pharisees persecuted what? The people of faith. They always did. The religious people. Then, of course, they venerated them later, didn't they? The spell of her judgment upon the earth was broken. I looked at the spell. Remember in Galatians, it says, Who's bewitched you? The spell. Cast a spell. In other words, cast a spell on Adam, and he handed down that fallen mindset to everybody else until Christ came and released it. Release grace, release the truth, release the truth of who you are, the Father is, and who God is. Alright. I love this. John's Jewish audience were familiar with the fact and are reminded of Psalms 89 and 97, speaking of righteousness and truth being what? The foundation of habitation of the throne. Righteousness and truth. Righteousness and truth are the trademarks. And then this is Pharaoh, Therio means to pine away to wither. In other words, when you're not in relationship with the Father, Son, Spirit, when you are not recognizing your union, you will pine away. You will dry up. I'm sure you've experienced it. Any idea of separation causes one to wither away in loneliness. Prostitution can never substitute for true marriage. Now listen, I'm just going to jump down here. 11 Corinthians 11, 3, the verse says, I am concerned for you that you might what? Pine away through the illusion of separation from Christ, and that just like Eve, you might become blurry-eyed, all of a sudden get blurry-eyed and deceived into believing a lie about yourself. The temptation was to exchange the truth about completeness. Say, I am complete because of what God says. Completeness means perfection, by the way. And I love this, you know I quote the same scriptures all the time, but they're so good. Hebrews 10, 14, he has forever completely cleansed and perfected you. That's amplified. You have been made perfect. That's God's faith. That's what he believes. If you can disagree with it, I always like to say, if you think something different than he thinks, you're wrong, not God. God's right. Alright. He says, I am of the idea of incompleteness. I am not. And the shame. Now this is thinking that perfection requires your toil and all manner of wearisome labors. That's what we do. We've been taught this perfection. We got to do willpower. I don't know about you, but willpower failed me and it's failed everybody else. And if he's trying on the willpower, then Jesus just makes the, he just makes the the orders a lot harder. And I'm not going to go into because I don't have time. Verse 3, and yet again they would say, Hallelujah. Now listen, for the smoke of her destruction rises up as a trophy testimony for what? All time and ages. In other words, it's a symbolism of the destruction of that system. I always go back to the John the third chapter, starting around the 19th verse. This is the judgment. The light is coming to the world, and the people love the darkness more than the light. So they shrunk away from light. Who is that? In Jesus' time, that was the Pharisees and the religious people. That's who the sinners didn't do it. They came to Jesus and flocked to him. That's the system. We are in a grace by faith system without law. Law leads us to this. And people always go, that's a cheap excuse. You just you can sin all you want. No, you don't want to sin. I can, but I don't want to. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6, it says, all things are lawful, but not all things are profitable, and I will not be enslaved by anything. Things are enslaving, things are not profitable. I can smoke cigarettes. I mean, maybe some of you do, and I'm not condemning anybody. I'm a doctor, it's not good for you. And you know it, right? But it doesn't make anybody, doesn't make you a bad person, but probably a better option not to do it. I mean, I know it's addicting, and maybe it's a bad example, but since I'm a doctor, and there's tons of examples like that. Okay, and the 24 elders are back to what happened in the beginning. You know, this, because they come up, they came up right away, and the four living creatures fell on their faces in worship to God upon the throne, saying, Amen. So be it. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And a voice proceeded from the environment of the throne, saying, Recount the amazing stories of God's praise to all his bondservants. Recount testimonies. Small and great, everyone who is awed by him. That's that's testimonies are powerful, aren't they? Recount what the amazing things God has done. God took on the suffering of the whole human race. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world on the cross, he took the judgment, the sin, the sickness, the pain of every human being whoever lived and whoever will lived in one swoop. In tremendous suffering. But for the joy set before him, he endured the cross, ignoring and despising all the shame. He did that. He's God and He took out the humiliation. Think about that. It's amazing. Alright. Then I heard a voice of innumerable masses. In other words, a big bunch of people, of people exploding like thunderous torrents. Which actually sounds like the voice of God, doesn't it? Thunderous torrents of a mighty cascading waterfalls. This is the same voice God has. Thunderous torrents of mighty cascading waterfalls. Bellowing, bellowing. I always think it comes when they bellow. Hallelujah. The Lord our God, the Lord our God, has claimed his kingdom and has established his sovereign rule over everything. He has done this. Psalms 24 says, the world is the Lord's, and everything in it, even those who dwell in everything and everybody, belongs to God. He is sovereign. His love rules. He says, You've been drawn out of the kingdom of darkness. Excuse me. I misquoted that. Out of the dominion of darkness, which is darkness, into the kingdom of the Son of His love. You've been transfigured. Who did the transfigured in? He did. While you were dead in your trespasses and sins, he made you alive with Christ, gave you the life of Christ, gave you joy seeding with Christ. What state were you in? Dead in your trespasses is blind. He did it before you knew it and without your permission. This is the climax of the ages. This is the pinnacle. The climax of the ages. Celebrate his glory with what? I love it. Ecstatic joy and extreme delight. For what? The wedding feast of the Lamb has come. The wedding feast. What happens at a wedding? A union happens. A oneness happens. Two people become one. And I always like to say that scripture back in, you know, we always use it at a wedding. A man should leave his husband and cleave to his wife, and the two should become one flesh, right? But I think, I mean, and that's true, but it's also true of Christ. I've said this before, but I'll say it again, Isaiah, the sixth chapter, I believe it is. Who will go for us? I mean, this is a Trinity talking. Who will go for us? Isaiah says, I'll go send me, but it's symbolism, Jesus. Who will go for us? And you got the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, you got the Father, male, Holy Spirit, Raka, feminine. You got a father, a mother, so to speak, and you got a son. And the son leaves the father, mother, and he cleaves to his wife, who is you. And the two, we become one flesh with Jesus. He he's living in your flesh. That's what makes you the body of Christ. Because he's living in you. Your flesh is his flesh. Your flesh is his flesh. Think about that. Selah. Pause and calmly think about that. You are married to Jesus. Here's the what is the wedding feast of the Lamb has come. This was a couple thousand years ago. It says it has come already. The day did not catch her by surprise. We all think it. Oh my god, am I gonna be ready? I'm the bride. I gotta I gotta do this and I gotta do that. No, no, no. It didn't catch her by surprise. Why? His bride has prepared herself appropriately. She is ready and fully fit for the occasion. What pleases God? Faith. It's the faith of what God believes to be true, and God believes that He's cleansed the sin of all mankind in one swoop. God believes that you're innocent, that you're a saint, you're a child, you're an image bearer, you're righteous, you're holy, you're a temple. And you're a bride. She was given, given, not earned, given the finest linen to clothe herself. There she stands, wrapped in radiant white, dressed in what? Spotless saintly innocence. Say this. I have been given the finest linen to clothe myself in. Given. I stand, I'm wrapped in radiant white. Just like the transfiguration. I'm dressed in spotless, saintly innocent. Say I am innocent. Because God declares it. I am who God says I am. And that's what he says about you. And he says you were ready. Alright. I'm just gonna skip the commentary I was looking at there. And then chapter four, page four. No. Okay. Verse nine. He instructed me now, record this and writing. Remember back in uh Revelation 10, 4, he said, stop writing. Of course, he had obviously wrote something because we have a record of it. But now he says, he instructed me to record this writing. Oh the blessedness. And I want to go down here, the word makarios, usually translated blessed, suggesting a special intensity of delight. In other words, oh the special intensity of delight or blessedness of this bliss, which is what? Ecstatic joy, which is what? The supreme celebration of the union of the ages. A supreme celebration of your union with the bride Jesus. This is a wedding, and I always like to say that. You know, weddings, you know, are in the are in the Christian tradition. I know maybe people don't like to take the last name of the guy now, and they want to Iphana, whatever. But think about it. The woman in the tradition takes the name of the man. It's Christian, it's a Christian tradition. You can do, I mean, I I'm not saying you have to do that, I don't care, but it's the symbolism. We take on his name. And when you go to a wedding, I've said this before, who is the center of attention? Well, the bride and groom, yeah, but really the bride. It's the bride and groom, but who's dressed up to dazzle? It's not the bride, it's the bridegroom, excuse me, it's not the bridegroom, it's the bride. Man, she's decked out her hair or makeup or jewelry, this beautiful white dress. Her ma or her uh maid of honor or maids don't look the same as her, they got different dresses, they all look nice, but they all kind of have the same dress, so they kind of blend. But there's one person that's the same, you're the bride, and this celebration is all about you. Jesus so loved you, he did this all for you, he cleansed you, and he came down to marry you and make you in union with himself and bring you into that place where God prepared in the Trinity. In the Trinity. Where's Jesus? He's in the Trinity. I like how Baxter says the Trinity's not sitting there, it's a circle. They're all face to face. And now we've been grafted into the Trinity in union with Christ. Okay. He says, You have individually, each one of you been identified by name. Say your name, Patrick. You have been identified by name and invited to the Lamb's Supper, concluding in the ultimate, the ultimate wedding feast. This is what the grand finale, this is what it's all about in unveiling God's word. It's all about this celebration, this union. And guess what, brothers and sisters? You individually and collectively are the bride. This union is about you. Jesus came down and destroyed everything that could cause separation from the Father and the Son and the Spirit. He died, He He took on your judgment, He made you feel good about Himself because that's what sacrifices were all about. So people felt good about themselves. If you want to study sacrifices, that's another subject. And he brought you into relationship, into an intimate union of seamless union, where you are as he is, dwelling with him face to face. You shared his death, you shared his resurrection, and you shared his ascension, you're sharing his anointing, you're sharing his relationship with the Father face to face right now. By his virtue. I love that. In 1 Corinthians 1 30, it says, It is from God, not you, that you have your life in Christ Jesus, who has made your righteousness, holiness, sanctification, and everything else. I can't say it all, but you get the picture. He is from him. He did it, he initiated it. We were the lost sheep. Someone says, Yeah, when I found Jesus, you never find Jesus, he found you. He wasn't lost, you were. All right. I'm gonna down about uh quite a bit. I'm just saying in the commentary nine says, just like Babylon, Babylon is not a geographic city in the symbolic language of the Revelation, it is a fallen, distorted mindset society, a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Okay? So the New Jerusalem is not a geographic city, but a redeemed society of mankind. The bride of Christ is the new Jerusalem. Say, I am the new Jerusalem. Now think about this. He just says this is the columnation, this is the wedding. You're married to Jesus, you're in union forever and ever and ever. This is everlasting thing. And what happens to John? He says, he was overwhelmed with what he just saw. That he fell down at his feet to worship him, the messenger. And you said, why did he worship the messenger? I could speculate, but probably because he was willing to worship anything at that point, right? Because he was overwhelmed. He just heard a message that was so blown away. And he says, he immediately asked him me to see him as a fellow bondservant and a fellow brother jointly echoing, this is jointly together echoing the testimony of Jesus. This is all about Jesus from the beginning of Scripture till just. Jesus comes, it's Jesus, pointing to Jesus, and from Scripture all the way to Revelation is pointing back at Jesus. This is all about Jesus, and Jesus is all about you. He said, No, this is the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Prophecy is all about prophecy is foretelling of Christ. It's all about Jesus. That's why Jesus said, I've said a million times when the Far He said to the Jews and the Pharisees, you search the scriptures diligently because you you you seek in them eternal life, and those scriptures speak of me. They're the prophecies of me, and here I am. Here I am, and you don't see me. Came to his own, and his own didn't recognize him. Then in my vision, heaven opened. I love this, and I saw a white horse appear. The name of the one seated upon the horse is faithful and true. Righteousness spans the range of his judgment and warfare. Righteousness, which is what? Restoring image and likeness. Back in Romans, first chapters one, it's 19, 18, 19, he says, the wrath of God, which wrath is orgy, which means passionate desire, is against all the unrighteousness and ungodliness of man. Of course, when you read that in the old thinking, you think he's against man. No, he's against you believing a lie about yourself because you're godly because you're children of God. That makes you godly. You have a divine nature, and you're righteous. In other words, he's against you falsely believing a lie about yourself. That's what his passion is against. It's not against you, it's against your false belief. Or one time false belief. Alright. So it says upon the horse is faithful and true, one seated. So he's the faithful one and the true one. Righteousness spans the range of his judgment, which is right standing, which is Dikosune, two people finding likeness. He finds likeness in you. That's the most important thing. And he wants you to see. I always like to say, you know, you possess the mind of Christ. What does that mean? Seeing things from his point of view. He sees you righteous. Romans 3.23. All have sinned falls short of the glory of the Lord. Verse 24, all have been made righteous as a free gift by Jesus Christ. All you know, I know the virgists like to say many because they're like, I don't know about that. You many of the translators sitting scratching their head probably have less hair than me. Yeah, I don't know. Like, I just that all that all, I just can't, I'm just gonna put many. I'll just put many. No, all they just don't know they're part of the all. That's also in the fifth chapter of Romans, that's the same thing, basically. Okay, and his eyes were like flames, uh flaming, uh flashing flames of fire, just like in the beginning of revelations here. Remember, this is the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is revealing Christ. That's what this book is about. It's not revealing the end and the destruction of the dang world. It's about the revelation of Jesus Christ. And the revelation of Jesus Christ is about who Christ is, about the accomplished work of the cross. That's what it's about. You can know Jesus, but you don't know who he is or what he accomplished. It doesn't do you a whole lot of good. All right. And his eyes were like flaming flashes of fire. His head was adorned with many royal die downs, which means authority. He has a name written upon him, which he alone understands. No one recognizes him by that name. Which I knew. I'm gonna say this little thing in the commentary, which I knew, but I never tagged it to this as brilliant. Franco, of course, is brilliant. Listen the Jews knew God as the unpronounced name. They didn't know how to say his name, so they didn't dare say it. It's to this day. The Jews knew God as an unpronounced name and therefore called him Hashem. Ha means uh the and Shem means name. The name. We don't know. Well, what's his name? Oh, they could not connect this most sacred name to the Messiah, Christ Jesus, born in Bethlehem, condemned and crucified by them. In John 1.11, it was not as though he arrived on a foreign planet. He came to his own, yet his own didn't recognize him. Isn't it amazing that in the Old Testament, you got Jehovah Jirah, Jehovah Rapha, you go to all the names of God, El Shaddai, all describing what God does, right? And here we got a new guy show up, the son of God, his name is Salvation, Yahweh rescued. And down here it says Judah will be saved, Yasha, which means to be freed, open, and wide by invocation to be safe, cause to free, to defend, to deliver, to help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring his salvation, get victory. That's what he is. And actually, I believe that the name of Jesus encompasses all the names of God in the Old Testament. He's the savior, he's the healer, he's the all-sufficient one, right? And when he says, when you pray in his name, that's what he's talking about. What does his name guarantee you? That's what you get. Not that you want a Cadillac. Unless he tells you you're going to get a Cadillac. He tells you, I'm going to give you a Cadillac. You say, Thank you for the Cadillac. But if he doesn't want you to have a Cadillac, you say, I'm going to have a Cadillac in Jesus' name. You're not getting the Cadillac. So you might, it'll destroy your faith, by the way. Just listen to God. But do you want healing and wholeness? Be safe. Yeah. It's all there for you. Alright. 13. The robes he wore were dipped in blood, and his name has always been the word of God. He is now being revealed. The robes he wore. Now remember, the bride has beautiful white, radiant robes that are cleansed. But here, the bridegroom, he wore robes that were dipped in blood. His own. And his name has always been Logos. The logic of God, the Word of God. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Pros God, face to face. This is who we're dealing with. The third person, the Trinity that's face to face with God, came down. Remember that scripture? I was for years, you always hear that scripture. There's one mediator between man and God, the man Christ Jesus. We always, okay, we gotta go through Jesus to get to God. But notice this, there's one mediator between God and man, not man and God. Coming this way, not going that way. He's the mediator. He came down. He submitted himself to be a human in the guise of sinful flesh, even though he wasn't sinful flesh. He gave up his Godhead, even though he still was God. And walked as a man, son of God, son of man. And so are you. Alright. And the heaven's armies followed him on white horses. They were dressed in the finest dazzling white linen. That's us. And from his mouth proceeds what a sharp sword. The words of his utterance cut the core of the heart of the nations, and he shall shepherd them with an iron scepter. I just gotta read this. My little seven-pound brain. Alright. From his mouth proceeds a sharp sword. Remember, he's his he's on the horse, his robes are dipped in blood. This is all symbolism of the Christ, the death, resurrection, the ascension, and he is the word of God. It says up here, he's the word of God. And the word proceeds out of his mouth. It's a sharp sword. The words of his utterance, do what? Cut to the core of the heart of the nations, and he shall shepherd all the nations with an iron scepter, which means absolute unyielding authority. Not remember, he is not a sheep herder. He does not chase the sheep. He leads by love. And on his own, he will tread out the wine press of the intensity of the passion of the sovereign God of the universe on his own. Now listen to this. It says this. Now all the people of reputation, which means they're not nice, they got all they got a reputation that's not good. The infamous tax collectors, as well as the regular sinners, this is uh Luke 15, 1, were in the habit of crowding Jesus. Listen this. They were magnetically drawn to him and addicted to his conversation. I tell you what, I'm magnetically, magnetically drawn to him, and I am addicted to this conversation. I'm hugely addicted to it. I'm hugely maddened. I can't can't I want to crowd Jesus all the time. But you know, the same conversation that he has is the same conversation he's given us now. This new message of what he's accomplished, not by our willpower, by what he did and the grace of God, the favor of God that comes with it. And which which I have to read this now that it came up because it's it's in the fourth chapter of Hebrews, and that's coming up down in the commentary, but I just want to read Hebrews 4, 12 in the uh just the commentary, because I just love this. Because this just goes to show you, it says the moment, this is a commentary, the first part of it, the moment we cease from our own efforts to justify ourselves. That's huge because most of the time, oh yeah, you go to the funeral, oh, did he go to heaven? Well, yeah, he was a good person, yeah, compared to who. Anyway, the moment we cease from justif from our own efforts to justify ourselves by yielding to the integrity of the message that announces the success of the cross. What happens? God's word is triggered into action, his power in your life. In other words, give up the God pleasing. He's pleased. He's pleased with what he did, and you were included in it. That's what he's pleased with. He's when he's I always like to say this. If I make a mistake, I just go and say, Well, you're not looking at me. You're looking at the work of what you did. You're looking at the cross, that I died with you. Before I made the mistake, I ascended with you and I was raised with you. That's what he's pleased with. And I was included in union with Christ when he died, was raised and ascended, and so were you. That's what he's pleased with. So quit pleasing him. That's what he's pleased with. He did the work without your help, and he's given it to you as a free gift and an inheritance. Just receive it. Well, that means I don't have to do any good works. That's right, you don't have to, but you will because you'll get all excited because it's a good time and it's a lot of fun and joy. Anyway. Okay, I'm just gonna keep going on there. 16. Here we go. We're getting there. And the name is written on his robe and thigh, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, which is kind of what some apparently some kings used to do to show who they were. But notice he's now been revealed. He comes out of heaven and he's he's revealed in the blood, he's revealed in the word, and he's revealed who he is. King of kings and lord of lords. He's taken on his name. There's no more prophecy that's trying to hide him and show him who he is. He is here. He is king of kings and lord of lords. He's never not going to be king of kings and lord of lords. Verse 17. Then I saw, here we get the good stuff. No. Then I saw another celestial herald standing in the luminous light of the sun. Okay, now think about that. Here's a herald or an angel standing in the luminous light of the sun. The suns illuminated them all around. And here's what he says with a loud voice, he invited all the birds of the sky to flock together for the great supper of God. What's the great supper of God? It's the Passover. That's the great supper. I mean, if you read it in the old way, it's like, oh my God, there's gonna be a big battle, and Jesus is coming down, and all these people are gonna come against him, all these kings, and he's gonna kill them all, and then the birds are gonna eat him. Literally, don't think so. No, no, no, no, no, no. And now here says another symbolic reference to the last final supper. The Lamb's flesh and blood introduce what? The new covenant, where every judgment is concluded in the what incarnate word is now our feast. His flesh is bread, indeed, and becomes our flesh. His blood is drink, indeed, and becomes our blood. Celebrate in every meal we have. His broken body pictures the broken body of the human race. One died for all, therefore all died. Now think about it. When you take on truth, you're eating. When you take on a belief system, you eat that belief system and it manifests in your flesh, in your actions, the way you walk, the way you believe. Anyway, I just like those birds because you know I'm sure wherever you are, you see the crows eating little roadkill, and the eagles, we have bald eagles eating roadkill, and if you go to Africa, the vultures are waiting for their turn after the after the jackals and the hyenas, the lions and the jack or the hyenas, the jackals, and finally the finally the birds of the prey get get the rest, right? But but in other words, they're waiting for that flesh. It says, come eat, come feast on the flesh of all mankind. That's interesting, isn't it? The flesh of kings and the flesh of the high-ranking captains, the flesh of the mighty men, the flesh of the horses and the riders, all flesh, slave free, both prominent and least. Now, I'm not sure I'm right here, but you know, if I died with Christ, maybe it's symbolism of my flesh dying and me being recreated. 2 Corinthians 5.17, if anyone's in Christ, which everybody is, because it's not a question, I'm a new creation. The sixth chapter, the sixth chapter of Romans, it says we died with him. We are, he says we are baptized into his death and we've been raised with him to a new life, a resurrected life. Our old flesh is gone. I think that's a symbolism, okay? He says, and I saw the beast in alliance with the kings of the earth, mustering their armies to engage in a once and for all war against the one seated on the throne and his army. And he won this battle. How? On the cross with love. Remember, the last thing he says, I mean, the last thing he says actually is it's finished, but he said what? Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. And I always like to say, if there was gonna be a great judgment and a rendering, it should have been when he was raised from the dead three days later. Caiaphas, you know, kind of like Jack Nicholson, the shining, I'm back. Caiaphas, Adonias, I'm back. I've been raised from the dead, and I'm gonna kick some booty. But he did. He forgave. He knew men were blind because of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and he forgave them. Forgave all mankind. Anyway, so there's a battle going on that Jesus has already won. And the beast and the miracle-working puppet partner, which is the false prophet, which is, I believe, is just like the worldly system and the church system, right? Based on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, were arrested and cast into the lake ablaze with sulfur. These two were the ones empowered by the dragon, which is Ophis, the serpent, the same one that pointed Adam and Eve to the tree, to amaze and deceive those who had tattooed in their heads and hands with the character of the beast and paying religious homage to its image. In other words, what does he mean by that? Oh, they can't eat and you can't trade. No. I mean, when you have a belief system, it manifests in your flesh and your blood, and the things that you do. Okay. And one thing about the sulfur, so sulfur is a yellow inflammable mineral substance found in quantities in the shores of the Dead Sea. This is this was also known as a divine incense because the burning brinso was regarded as having a power to what? Purify and to ward off disease. In other words, to get rid of anything that is not of the truth. Alright. Oh, one more verse. Almost forgot. I did one one. It says the one seated upon the horse with the sword that proceeds from his mouth has slain the allies of the beast and his puppet, false prophet, the kings and their hosts, while all the fowls of the air feast on their flesh. How does he defeat them? By the word of his testimony, by the blood of his by the by the shed blood. That's how. And down here it talks about Hebrews 4.12. It says, What? The message God spoke to us in Christ is this is excuse me, Hebrews 4.12, is what the most life-giving and dynamic influence in us. Say this. The message God spoke to me in Christ is the most life-giving influence, the most dynamic influence in me. In me, changing my life. Now think about that. Just a message we listen to. I keep saying this. On Galatians 3, says, what kind of message produces faith? What a condemned sinner are you, or what God accomplished. He says, sharper than a soldier's sword, which and piercing like the deepest core of the human conscious, which is actually swords go through the flesh, don't they? Flesh is the old, is the mindset on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That's what it is. To dividing soul and spirit, I love this, ending the dominance of the sense realm. What I see, feel, hear. Based based uh that's different than what God believes to be true. And its neutralizing effect on my spirit. Woo. In this way, I and you are spirit is free to become the ruling influence again in my thoughts and intentions of the heart. The scrutiny of the word detects every possible disease. Woo! Disease dis ease, right? Discerning the body's deepest secrets for joint and marrow beat. And what is God after? Is he looking for dirt? No. He's looking for your goodness. He's looking for the real you and wants you to believe the real the reality about who you really are. Amen.