The book of Revelation, if you'd
turn there with me to chapter 17. Next time through. That's our
second time. I'm not going to say when we're
going to go through the third time, because we haven't quite reached
it, but I've determined that when we do it next time, we must
study Ezekiel, Daniel, 1 and 2 Peter, and 2 Thessalonians
simultaneously. Because they have a lot to say
that's the same. Daniel has, and there's not gonna
be three or four different statements of faith on eschatology. They're
all going to be in agreement. And tonight I'd like to read
a little bit out of Daniel, but before we do, turn with me to
Revelation chapter 17, and I'd like to read verses 12, 13, and
14. Revelation chapter 17. and read verses 12, 13, and 14,
and spend a little time there. And before we make a lot of comments
on this passage of scripture, we'd like to look at a passage
in the book of Daniel. Revelation 17, verse 12, and
the 10 horns which thou sawest are 10 kings, which have received
no kingdom as yet. but receive power as kings one
hour with the beast. These have one mind and shall
give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make
war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them. Now that's
the words I'm looking for. Doesn't matter what happens,
as long as we have that, the lamb shall overcome them, for
he is lord of lords and king of kings, And they that are with
him are called and chosen and faithful. I like those three
qualifications with those. Now, keeping your finger here,
put a marker in there, whatever, turn with me back, if you would,
to the book of Daniel, chapter 2. Daniel has some things to
say about these items that we just read tonight. And he was
used of the Holy Spirit to write these a great deal earlier than
John was led to write these, and yet they are exactly, exactly
in agreement. There is no difference in what
God revealed to Daniel, and what he revealed to Ezekiel, and what
he revealed to John, and what he reveals today about his coming
the second time, and his power over all kingdoms, and that he
is king of kings, and he is lord of lords, and he rules. In fact,
it tells us that in this Daniel with a rod of iron. No one goes
up against him and is successful. Now many have tried and all have
failed. He is our Savior and he has promised
to save us from our sins. I was trying to think today as
I was discussing some issues, I was trying to think today the
difference, the real difference between the gospel, quote unquote,
I heard and the gospel I heard. The gospel I heard as a kid was
a savior that is trying to save. And the gospel I heard is a savior
that saves. The gospel I heard as a kid was
a king that's trying to rule, and the gospel I heard is a king
that rules. There's a lot of difference there
between a God, a Savior that's trying to do something. I heard
about a Redeemer that's trying to redeem his people, and every
time someone volunteers, he writes their name down. And then I heard
the gospel that spoke to my heart, and he is a Redeemer that redeems
a people that he's already written down. There's a lot of difference
there. And so the gospel that I heard,
the gospel that I knew in the flesh is so different than the
gospel that was revealed to me. This gospel is a gospel of victory. It is a gospel of success. It
is a gospel of the Lord taking hand and ruling and taking care
of sin and ruling over it and taking care of Satan and ruling
over him and taking care of hell and ruling over it. He has the
keys of death and hell. Everything that is in his creation. He rules over with a mighty hand
and that's the difference In a nutshell. All right Daniel
chapter 2. I'd like to begin reading with
verse 29 the king of the Chaldean Monarchy the kingdom of the Chaldeans
had a dream now It is interesting how much God used this king to
protect his saints. He was a pagan king. But God
used this king, this pagan king, this monarch of the Chaldean
Empire to protect Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and a
whole host that had been carried off. Many of them were left behind. But there was a host of them
taken off into captivity. And we read about them in other
books. The whole account of Esther. Chaldean ruler protected the
Jews that were among the empire. How God protected his church
in the Old Testament, he used pagan kings to do that. And we're
going to see as we move through here, even the Persian kings.
Cyrus was the one that ordained that the children of Israel go
back to Jerusalem. And he's the one that's going
to take over from the Chaldeans. He's going to be the Persian
king. But he is used by God to protect the children of God.
Now there's a whole bunch of Jews that were killed and left
there that had no relationship with God, but there's a bunch
of them that were taken into captivity and protected, guarded,
hedged about, that it was this kingdom and these kings that
protected them at God's behest. He used them and ordered them. And then we find the Greeks,
they were used to protect God's people, the kingdom of the Greeks. They protected the saints. And
then the Roman Empire. Now we know a lot about the Roman
Empire destroyed and a lot of people lost their lives as a
result, but they also harbored a great many of the saints in
their empire. Now let's look here in Daniel
chapter 2 and verse 29 and it says, As for thee, O king, thy
thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, What should come to pass hereafter? And he that revealeth secrets
maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me,
this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have
more than any living. I'm not smarter than anybody
else. But God gave me the interpretation to this dream. It's God that
reveals his word to his people. But for their sakes that shall
make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest
know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou, O king, sawst, and behold
a great image. This great image, whose brightness
was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible.
Now, that word terrible means magnificent. It was a sight. Now, I want us to understand,
as we read through here, as we understand what we're looking
at, this is a single image, and it was given to this king in
a dream. And this single image is revealing
to us four different monarchies. And the last statement about
these monarchies is the most valuable. And we'll get there
in just a moment. The form is terrible. This image's head was
of fine gold. His breast and his arms of silver,
and his belly and his thighs of brass. Now it's very interesting
as we go through here that modern eschatology, when they deal with
this, do not deal with the ten fingers. They don't deal with
two arms. But when we get down to the bottom,
they've got to deal with those ten toes. Well, let's just leave
it like it's written. He says here that there was an
image of fine gold and The head was of fine gold, his
breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
his legs of iron, his feet a part of iron and a part of clay. Thou
saw'st till that a stone was cut out without hands, which
smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and
break them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay,
the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together
and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors.
And the wind carried them away and no place was found for them.
And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth." Whoa, I want to know what that's
about. All right, now Daniel's gonna share some information
here that is very important. Yes, there was a Chaldean empire,
head of gold. That's what Daniel's gonna tell
this king. You're the head of gold. There's gonna be a kingdom
follow you. And every one of these kingdoms
had something in common. They protected God's church by
his orders. Most significant is Cyrus. He
was raised up. He overthrew the Chaldean Empire.
It was a Persian Empire. And he was ordered and ordained
of God to release these Jews to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild
the walls and rebuild the temple. God protected his people as they
were in captivity. All right, this is the dream.
Verse 36, we will tell the interpretation, therefore, before the king. Thou,
O King, art the King of kings, for the Lord of heaven hath given
thee a kingdom, power, strength, and glory. And wheresoever the
children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of
heaven, hath he given unto thy hand, and hath made thee ruler
over them all. Thou art this head of gold. The
head of gold represents this empire. Now, when we get a little
further in the book of Revelation, we're gonna find out a whole
lot about phals. He's just saying that everything was under this
kingdom's power. God had given them rulership
over the known world at that time. Now, after thee shall arise
another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of
brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. Now, history
tells us that that second kingdom was Cyrus's kingdom. It was the
Persian empire. And the kingdom that followed
that was the Grecian empire. And it was a magnificent empire,
but it did not have the glory of the first or the second. And
then it says, the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for
as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, and
as iron that breaketh all things shall it break in pieces and
bruise. Now, our friend down there in Central Point had recommended
some books on the Roman legions, and it doesn't take very long
in there to find out just how that Roman empire broke to pieces
all of the tribes and peoples they came in contact with. Tim
just read one of them, and it said that there was a whole tribe
came out, and the Romans said, you go home and stay there, and
they turned out to be the Swiss, and they're still there. They
never left their area again under the threat of the Roman Empire.
There were tribes that were in that empire that threw up their
hand against Rome, and they destroyed every male and sold every woman
and every child into slavery, so that tribe would never be
in existence again. That's the way they ruled. They
ruled hard. And that's what they, iron, they
ruled of iron. Whereas thou saw'st the feet
and toes part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided, but there shall be in it the strength of iron
for as much as thou saw'st the iron mixed with miry clay. And
as the toes of the feet are part iron and part clay, so the kingdom
shall be partly strong and partly broken. As it went on, it got
worse and worse. And whereas thou sawest iron
mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed
of men, and they shall not cleave one to another, as the iron is
not mixed with clay. Now notice this, verse 44. And
in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up
a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom
shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. What's he talking about? The
kingdom of God, the kingdom of our Lord, the eternal kingdom,
the everlasting. It became apparent because of
the death of Christ on the cross. He has always been king, but
truly it can be said how he demonstrated his kingship at the cross. He
ruled over every enemy of God and of the church and came out
victorious and successful to the point he could say every
descent finished. They will never raise their head
against me again. I have taken the tribes of sin,
I have taken the tribes of hell, I've taken the tribes of the
devil, I've taken the tribes of death, and I have put them
asunder to the point they will never raise their head against
my people again. This kingdom is a kingdom that
was established during the times of these kings, and that's the
only reason they ruled. God had a protection of His people. He had a protection of the Son
of God. He had a protection of the Lord
Jesus Christ, our Savior. He took care of Him. The Roman
Empire took care of Him. They took care. God ruled. In verse 45, for as much as thou
sawest the stone that was cut out with a mountain without hands,
that is our Savior. and that it break in pieces the
iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold. That is
the kind of rule God has over every kingdom. Now, if we look
there in verse 44, it says, all of these kingdoms are going to
feel the kingdom of God. What's that mean? The gospel
is going to go into every area these kingdoms ever ruled over. And by it, there's going to be
people that are under the thumb and rule of these kings shall
be plucked out. They shall be taken out of the
rule of these kings. And they shall be given and granted
permission to be in the kingdom of heaven. Verse 45, for as much
as thou sawest the stone that was cut out of the mountain without
hands, and that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay,
the silver, and the gold, every part of that kingdom was shattered. We're not looking for it to be
brought out again. We're not looking for these kings
to be raised up at the last time. Every king that ever rules, we're
going to find, is ruling by permission of the Lord Jesus Christ, God
Almighty. He is the King of kings. He rules
with a rod of iron. And it says there, in the latter
part, the great God hath made known to the king what shall
come to pass hereafter. And the dream is certain, and
the interpretation thereof is sure. Daniel says, this is what
it is. You don't need to go for another
interpretation. You don't need to go to some
other of your soothsayers. You don't need to go to some
other prophet. This is the interpretation. You are the head of gold. And
after you fall, there's going to be another one. And after
he falls, there's going to be another one. And then there's
going to be another one. And during the period of time that
those, that fourth kingdom rules, God's going to raise up a kingdom.
that shall reign forever." Now, we know that this kingdom has
always been, but the check has been written. Let's put it that
way. The check has been written, but it was ready to be cashed
at the cross. The reality of this kingdom is
made apparent. Now, everyone in the Old Testament,
every saint of God, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, everyone
listed in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, all the faithful children
of Almighty God were in and are in this kingdom. But there was
a time when Jesus Christ came and fulfilled every requirement
of the covenant of grace made before the foundation of the
world, and it was finalized when He laid down His life, a ransom
for many. That is the finalization, the
authorization of the establishment of this kingdom. He is coronated
before the world began, as David was made king long before he
sat on the throne. He's king and he has a kingdom.
He, in type, shows us what Christ is. Jesus Christ, before the
world began, was the king. But at this, during the time
when the Romans were in rule, they ruled in Judea. They ruled there with a rod of
iron. They were used by God to put the Jews out. And that's what he did. All right.
The head of gold represents the Chaldean monarchy. Breast and arms, the Persian
kingdom. And I'm going to unplug that
phone every sermon. Belly and thighs of brass, the
Grecian monarchy, and the legs and feet of iron represented
the Roman Empire. And they remained till the stone
that was cut out with hands, the Lord Jesus. came and did
exactly, and he put down those empires, they are not what protect
the saints. It is the kingdom of God. All
right, now, turn with me, if you would, over to the book of
Revelation, chapter 17. Now we find, as we study the
word of God, that there is, the Lord will never compromise his
word. He is not in the compromising business. He will not allow us
to offer anything else for his righteousness. He does not compromise,
and as a result of that, he will not change his word or his ways
or his work, and this always brings on a war from the world. We want him to
change. We want his word to change. We want his works to change.
We want his ways to change. And there's always a warfare.
And it is exhibited against the saints. They are the postman
and they get the brunt of it. The Lord will not compromise
his word. And here, in the 17th chapter
of the book of Revelation, it says there in verse 14, these
shall make. Well, verse 12, the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, what we find over there in the
book of Daniel. During the period of these kings shall a kingdom
be established, and they're going to be destroyed. Now, that doesn't
matter in what period of time or where it is when the gospel
comes. It is going to cause a war. It's going to cause a war inside
of people. They are usually settled on their
own righteousness. And there is a great tribulation
brought. It's going to be a war. It says
there in verse 14, they shall make war with the Lamb. Happens
all the time. Has happened all the time. It
happened just outside the Garden of Eden. Cain fought against
the lamb. He fought against his word. He
fought against his ways. He fought against the lamb. He
just took it out on his brother. Every generation, we've seen
this war. In the book of Matthew, look
in Matthew chapter 10. Keep your finger right there,
but in Matthew chapter 10, the Lord Jesus said this with regard
to peace. Matthew chapter 10, verse 34.
It's going to be a war. It will always be a warfare.
There will always be a variance. Matthew chapter 10 verse 34. Jesus said, think not that I
come to send peace on the earth. I come not to send peace, but
a sword. There's going to be a warfare.
Every time the gospel is preached, there will be a warfare. There'll
be an internal warfare, and oftentimes it boils over to an external
warfare. We've seen it in history. We'll
see it today. The Lord, if He tarries, we'll
see it tomorrow. There'll be a warfare because
of the gospel. The world, religion, man wants
God to change to meet his standard. And if he does not, there's going
to be a warfare. Goes on to say, for I'm not come,
for I am come to set a man at variance against his father,
and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. And a man's foe shall be they of his own
household. I came not to bring peace, but
a sword. I came not to compromise. I will
not compromise the gospel. I will not dummy down the gospel. I will not simplify the gospel. It is a warfare. And these, as
it tells us here in the book of Revelation chapter 17, they
shall make war with the Lamb. All right, what's going to be
the outcome? Don't bury your head in the sand. Don't do it, because every time
there's a warfare, and they shall make war against, I made war
against the Lord. I made war against the Lord.
I will not have this man rule over me. And when, in reading
those books, when those tribes did that, Rome came and wham! They put down the uprising. Well,
I'm thankful that God demonstrates in his word that he comes and
he puts down the uprising. He takes care of the warfare.
And we are so pleased to say, I give up. I surrender to Christ. I am bankrupt, and I have no
more warfare in me. And then we find out that we're
sons and daughters of the king we've been in rebellion against.
All right? This warfare, as it goes on,
it tells us there, the lamb shall overcome them. Now, there's several that the
Lord overcomes. We know, in fact, that the Lord
overcomes every lost sheep. We know that. Every lost sheep
had to be overcome. Every lost sheep is in rebellion
against God. Every lost sheep is a sinner
towards God. Every lost sheep is a sinner
by practice, and a sinner by nature, and a sinner by choice.
Every lost sheep, and that warfare that we bring against him, we
only find in the scripture that he will overcome them. And we say, hallelujah, there
is hope for our children. There is hope for our grandchildren.
There is hope for our parents. There is hope, because he said
he will overcome them. They are in rebellion now, but
he has promised that he will overcome every one of his, and
we pray, God, may they be. Make us happy with your will,
but may they be. And he's not gonna change his
will, but oh God gives us the desire to pray for those around
us, our family, our friends, and may it follow. Here, the
lamb shall overcome them. Now he overcame their sin at
the cross, all his sheep. He overcame all against them. He overcame, he was successful,
he overcame them. The warfare is over. He overcame
them. Now there's a battle going on
every time the gospel is preached. Going on, going on. It's usually
an internal battle. Sometimes it spills over. Sometimes
it's lashed out. Sometimes people say, I will
never come and hear you again. Sometimes they say, I hate you. Sometimes they tell other people
that they hate somebody. But it's a warfare. And it is
a warfare that's been going on since the fall. And yet the victory
is Christ's. He will always be victorious. No one, no one can overthrow
him. It says he, the Lamb shall overcome
them. Why? He is Lord of Lords and
King of Kings. Turn back again to the book of
Daniel with me, chapter two, if you would. Daniel chapter
two. As we read here, the subject of Daniel's book is the greatness
of God, the sovereignty of God, the power of God, the lordship
of God, the kingship of God. Oh my, it's just demonstrated
throughout here. How in the world could this king
have a dream like that? Daniel said, you are moved upon. And he had a dream, and Daniel
interpreted it. And he says, you don't need to
look for any other interpretation. This is it. Daniel chapter two,
verse 20, 21, and 22. Daniel chapter two, verse 20,
it says, Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name of
God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his. And he changes
the times and the seasons. Now you wonder why we're having
strange weather. He changes the times and the
seasons, not gas emissions. He changes the times and the
seasons. My grandfather told me down there
at New Pine Creek, when he was a boy, they could grow watermelons
like they do at Hermiston. And they did, acres of them,
and sold them. Acres of watermelon, big Hermiston
watermelons. Now, if you can get a watermelon
to be four or five inches across in the growing season, you're
very fortunate. He changes the times and the
seasons. And we may be seeing it. All
right, just a little sideline there. Daniel chapter two, verse
20. He removeth kings and setteth
up kings. He giveth wisdom unto the wise
and knowledge to them that know understanding. He revealeth the
deep and secret things. Now that's what he did to Daniel,
but that's what he does to the church every time the gospel
is preached. He revealeth the deep and secret things of God
to his people. How do we know about his grace?
He revealed the deep things of God. How do we know about God's
mercy? He's revealed the deep things
of God. They are deep things. Boy, we don't need anything deeper
than Christ. He is deep. How do we know about the holiness
of God? He's revealed the deep things.
Now, we don't know all we're going to know, but every saint,
every born-again believer in Christ Jesus know more than they
knew about by nature. That Missy Healy told me when
she said she'd been saved and I said, how do you know? And
she said, I know things about God I shouldn't know. That's
a pretty good definition of being saved. I know things about God
I shouldn't know. He reveals the deep and secret
things. He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth
with him. Now that's what he said about
being king of kings and lord of lords. He rules. All kingdoms are established
by him, and kept by him, and disposed by him, and established
by someone else, by him. He ruled when that Chaldean king
ruled. He was the head of gold. He ruled
when the Persians took over. I cannot even surmise the number
of people who lost their lives in the battles between those
two kingdoms so that Cyrus could come to the throne and God would
use him to send the Jews back to Jerusalem. And when the Greeks
took over, you just can't imagine the number of people that lost
their lives when the Greeks took over or the Romans took over. There was thousands and thousands
of people that lost their lives at the exchange of those kingdoms.
And yet God said, this one's going to rule, this one's going
to rule, this one's going to rule, and these are going to
rule. And during this time, I'm going to establish a kingdom
that shall be forever. And that's the kingdom of God
as we see it. Jesus talked about the kingdom.
John talked about the kingdom. The disciples talked about the
kingdom. That's just the church. It's ever been, but oh how it
was made glorious at the cross. It's always been talked about,
but oh how it was enhanced at the cross. Glorious church, glorious
things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God. All right? Turn with me to Proverbs. Proverbs
8. Just back a little bit to the
book of Proverbs. Proverbs 8, verse 15, we read
about this wonderful subject of the Lord being King of kings
and Lord of lords. Proverbs 8, 15, by me kings reign,
and princes decree justice. If we had nothing else, that's
enough. By me, kings reign. Sobering thought. By me, presidents are elected. By me, kings and queens are established. By me. Goes on to say there in
verse 15, by me, kings reign and princes decree justice. By
me, princes rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
I'm king of kings and Lord of lords. And that's the one that
overcomes in this war. In the book of 1 Timothy, 1 Timothy,
what a wonderful passage of scripture here in 1 Timothy about the blessed
and only. 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse
15, blessed and only potentate, only monarch, only king of kings. 1st Timothy chapter 6 and verse
15 which in his times he shall show who is the blessed and only
potentate King of kings and Lord of lords. Look at verse 14. That
thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his times he shall show,
who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of
lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no
man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can see, in
whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. How did he overcome this
war? He is King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. And then in Revelation 19, it
tells us here in Revelation chapter 19 verse 11, just a little bit ahead of us
in our scripture study. Revelation 19, verse 11, says,
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he
that sat on him was called Faithful and True. And in righteousness
he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns. And he had the name written,
that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood. And his name is called the Word
of God. And the armies which were in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it." Now, that sharp sword is just as literal
as those horses. That sharp sword is the Word
of God. Now, I don't know exactly what the horses are, but that's
just as literal. It's spiritually telling us how and what he does.
He rules. Out of his mouth go the sharpsword.
He is the mouth of God. It's filled with the gospel of
the Lord Jesus. And with it he shall smite the
nations. How does he smite the nations? With the sharpsword,
with his word. He's going to cause warfare.
He is going to smite the nations. He's going to smite that great
whore. He's going to smite the Babylon
the great. He's going to smite the beast. He is going to bring in subjection
all his people. If he, since he, let's put it
that way, since he created the heavens and the earth by the
word of his mouth, he can overcome all things by this same sharp
sword. The Word of God. Shall smite
the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and
he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of
Almighty God. He hath on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Name written. This is his title. And so he overcomes this warfare
that takes place. It's taken place, it's taken
place, it's taking place, it will take place until he comes
again and then the warfare, there will be no battle. He'll not
have to reveal himself to any more sheep. That will be done.
Judgment will fall. And it says, they shall make
war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is
Lord of lords and King of kings, and they that are with Him are
called and chosen and faithful. Our faithfulness depends on who
we run with. Well, there's great courage with
great commanders. We don't have to have much of our own, any
of our own. We're running with the great
commander. If we're running with the king, if we're following
the king, our faith, it could be so insignificant, but power
is given to us because of who's fighting the battle. My, just
shares with us how faithful God's people are because he is a great
warrior and we follow in his wake. Great faith. I've got great faith. Why? He's
great. He battles well. He fights well. He does well. I can put my money
on him every time. He is the king. So I don't have
to have any faith. It's his faith. I just follow along and enjoy
him, enjoy his battles. He's fighting the battle. Our
faithfulness depends on who we run with and whose we are. And
it says that these that follow him are called, and they're chosen,
and they're faithful. How do we find out we're chosen? When he calls us by the gospel.
That's how we find out. Called by the gospel, we find
out we're chosen, and that's gonna make his people faithful.
He cuts a broad wake. Well, a little dinghy falling
behind a great big aircraft carrier, I'll just stay right here. There's
safety right here. I'll just stay right here. And
that's what we are. We're following a great aircraft
carrier. We can say we're in a little
dinghy. Really, we're in the aircraft carrier. All right. The Ark.
We're in the Ark. Well, we'll stop there, and Lord
willing, we'll pick up this next time, verse 15, and finish this
chapter. There's some things in here,
as it said, with regard to Paul's writing, some things are hard
to be understood. I'm not going to try to second-guess
the Lord on them, and we'll just move ahead. I, there's seven
heads and seven mountains and the seven hills of the city,
and that's always been turned as Rome. I think we've made a
mistake there. I think it's much bigger than
Rome. I think it's religion, world religion, peace, or people's
religion, the heart's religion, and I think it's, and it just
isn't Rome. It's bigger than that.