Let's start reading in chapter
22, start in verse 6. And he said unto me, these sayings
are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy
prophets sent his angel to show unto his service the things which
must surely be done. Behold, I come quickly. Blessed
is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And I, John, saw these things and heard. And when I had heard
and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel
which showed me these things. Then saith he unto me, see thou
do it not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren
the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book.
Worship God. And he saith unto me, seal not
the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He that
is unjust, let him be unjust still. He which is filthy, let
him be filthy still. He that is righteous, let him
be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him
be holy still. And behold, I come quickly, and
my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work
shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do
his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without
are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, and whoso
loveth and maketh a lie. I, Jesus, have sent mine angel
to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root
and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say come, and let him that heareth
say come, and let him that is a thirst come, and whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely. For I testify
unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this
book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man
shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out
of the holy city and from the things which are written in this
book. He which testifies these things say, surely I come quickly,
Amen, even so come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. You know our blessed Savior,
our blessed Master, gave us a glorious description of the new Jerusalem,
which was the bride of Christ. He saw it coming down out of
heaven, saw it descending. Then he gave us a description
of the city, It was a big city, huge city, 1,400 foot square. Gold streets, pearl gates made
out of pearl, and then all these beautiful foundation stones and
jewels around it tell us about the attributes of God. And in this city, Christ is the
Lamb. Don't need the sun, don't need
the moon, don't need the stars, but Christ himself is the light
of that city. He is the light now. He's our
light now. Not only is He the light of this
city, but He's our light now. He's our light now. Ain't that
what it said there in chapter one, verse 21, verse 23? And
the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine
in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the
light thereof. He's our light now. He's our
light now. And He'll be the light of that
city when we get to glory. And in this city is the throne
of God and the throne of the Lamb. Look there in verse 3 and
4, chapter 22. And there shall be no more curse. The curse is gone. Death is gone. Hell is gone. Satan's gone. The
heart is gone. The world's gone. Everything
that would bother us is gone. And the throne of God and of
the Lamb shall be in this city. and his servants shall serve
him. And listen to this, and they shall see his face. Oh my,
see his face. And it says, we don't know what
we shall be, but we do know this, that when we see him, we shall
be like him. And we shall see his face. And
also he said, his name will be in our foreheads. God will see
it. He got a mark on all of us. He's
already put the seal on us. We're already His. He's already
marked us as His elect. He's already put a seal on us.
He sealed us by the Holy Spirit. He sealed us with His name. He
sealed us with the blood of Christ. He sealed us with the covenant
of grace. He has sealed us. And when we get there, His mark,
they had the mark of the beast. We got a mark, too. It's the
mark of God's elect. It's the mark of those who Christ
loved and gave himself for, who died for, those who are written
in the Lamb's book of life, and them only is the one that's gonna
be there. And all the inhabitants of this
city, this great city that we saw, they're coming down, this
bride of Christ, they're the redeemed. They're the true Israel. called them conquerors, more
than conquerors, elect from every nation. Those whose names are
written in the Lamb's book of life. It is said in one place
here, we've already seen it. These are they, where'd these
men come from with all these white garments? These that overcame
by the blood of the Lamb and their testimony of Jesus Christ
the Lord. That's how you overcome, by His
blood, not us, His blood. Not us, but His testimony, what
He's told us and what He's testified to us, and our testimony of Him,
that we testify that He is all in all. He's all of our salvation. He's all of our righteousness.
Everything we have, we got from Him. That's what we testify of.
We don't have nothing else to say about anything. We don't
even talk about ourselves when we're before God, except to acknowledge
our need and to give Him thanks. That's all we do. We're overcome
by the blood of the Lamb. And we come now to the closing
verses, the conclusion, the end of this study. And may our covenanted
God, in His wondrous mercy, bless it to our understanding. Now
I want to show you three witnesses to the authority and the truth
of the book of Revelation. Not just the Bible, but just
this one particular book. That's what he's talking about
now. Three witnesses shows the book of Revelation and its authority. And the first witness we find
there in verse six. And he said unto me, these sayings
are faithful and true. He confirms all these visions.
He confirms everything that's happened up to this point. Everything
that's been said in this book is faithful, and it is true. Because God is faithful, and
God is true. Christ is faithful, and Christ
is true. And the Lord God of the holy
prophets, and He's the Lord God of the holy prophets, because
He's prophets holy. And a prophet in this particular
instance is somebody that just tells what God's already said.
Nothing new, this is what he said, the prophets, the Lord
God of the holy prophets. And listen to what he says now.
And sent his angels, sent his angels to show under his service. That word show means to reveal,
to show, to reveal something which must come to pass hereafter,
shortly hereafter. Now I want you to show that our
Lord Jesus Christ said exactly the same thing in Revelations
1.1. I want you to see this. Our Lord said exactly the same
thing in Revelations 1.1. And I tell you, he's telling
us that this book of Revelation, it's not just John's saying,
it's not just John's visions, it's not just the things that
we already, we heard about the seven angels, the seven vows,
the seven wraths, and the seven bowls, everything come in sevens.
But here, look what he says. And that angel said that he sent
his holy prophets, the angels, to show unto them the things
which must surely be done. Revelations 1.1, the revelation
of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to show unto his servants
the things which must surely come to pass. And listen to this,
and he sent and signified by his angel unto his servant John. Now what angel it is, I don't
know. But I know in Exodus, they sent an angel. An angel went
before Israel as they went through the wilderness. An angel came
behind them. God sent a light by day and a
cloud by day and a light by night. But I know this, that he says
that he sent his angel. What angel? He sent an angel
to Mary. He sent an angel to Daniel. He sent an angel Elizabeth
and there was an angels that began to sing glory to God in
the highest on earth this day is born unto you at the city
of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord now I don't know what
angel it is it don't make any difference God sent him and he
sent him to his prophets he sent him to his servants said I want
you to reveal to them the things that's going to happen I want
you to make them understand the things that's going to happen
but surely come to pass She must surely come to pass. And listen,
he quotes the words of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in verse
7. He said, Behold, I come quickly.
You know our Lord said three different times, Behold, I come
quickly. Three different times. He said it in Revelations 1,
said it in Revelations 3, and he said it two times here, four
times, two times here in Revelations 22. Behold, I come quickly. Now when he says, behold, I come
quickly, that means he comes quickly in this life. He comes
quickly to save his people. He comes quickly to bless his
people. He comes quickly to instruct
his people. He comes quickly to try his people. And when he comes again, he's
coming quickly. And you know, he said, as the
lightning, lightning comes from the east to the west, he said,
when the lightning, just how fast that is, he said, that's
how quick I'll be there. You know, you just see lightning.
He said, that's how fast I'm coming. That's how fast I'm coming. And I tell you, he said it to
all so many times. Behold, I come quickly. Wouldn't
you love for him to come quickly tonight just to bless this service?
Oh Lord, come quickly. Come into this meeting. Come
into this service. Come quick. Come quick to me. Come quick to them. Come quick
to their minds. Come quick to their hearts. Come
quick to their understandings. Oh Lord, come quick. Come into
our minds. Come into our hearts. Come into
our wills. Come into our emotions. Oh, Lord,
come into us. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Don't
leave us here alone. Don't leave us here with this
old fleck to deal with. Oh, Lord, come quickly. Come
quickly. And oh, he said, listen, and
listen to what he said again there in verse seven. And blessed
is he that keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book. You're
blessed if you believe and keep what God says in this book, in
this blessed book, the book of Revelation. And then he says,
oh, here's the second witness, John, John the Reverend, the
one who saw these visions, the one who God blessed to see. And
look what John said, he's the second witness, said, I, John,
saw these things, I've seen some things, I hear some things. Oh,
I've seen so many things and I heard all these things. And
you know how many things he's seen? He said, first of all,
he was called up into heaven. There was a door in heaven and
he looked up in that door in heaven. The first thing he saw
was a great throne. God was sitting on that throne.
There was a rainbow around that throne. There was 24 elders around
that throne, and there was four beasts around that throne. And
all four of those beasts had all, every one of them had a
different, they had faces, heads, tongues, feet, wings, all the
things that, and they all spoke of different kinds of men and
the things that they do. And he said, I saw all these
things, and then I was caught up, then I was caught up and
all the things that he saw while he was up there. Oh my, you're
talking about somebody. God took him to heaven itself.
There's three men that God's taken to heaven. They're scraped
from earth. He took Elijah. He's gone. No, Enoch. Enoch was one from
God and was not. That's one gone. Then Elijah,
God took him away. And then, John, he said, I, John,
was taken up. Paul was called up to the third
heaven. He went into the presence of God. And he came back down,
he said, tell us what you saw, Paul, tell us. Tell us what it's
like. Well, I've seen this great light. I've never seen no light
like it. And I come back and I can tell
you everything that happened up there. No, Paul didn't say
that. He said, the things that I've
seen, the things that I've experienced, the things that I was blessed
to see and understand. He said, it's not lawful. I don't
have the ability to tell you what I've seen. And that's what
John's saying to you. I've seen and I've heard some
things. And everything that I've seen
and heard, and I'll tell you what, And when I'd heard and
seen them, and he said, listen to this, I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
Angel showed him all these things. He saw the seven vows. He saw
the seven angels of wrath. He saw the seven of angels that
were sent to all four corners of the earth. He saw God on his
throne. He saw Christ take the hand,
the book, out of God's hand with the seven seals within and without.
But here he's this angel, and this angel, this happened twice.
He fell down before that angel, got down on his knees, and got
down at the foot of them angel, this angel here that Christ sent
to tell his prophets what's gonna come to pass. And oh, my. And you know this happened? This
happened when Peter went, sent to Cornelius' house. God had
to give him a vision, three visions, before he'd ever go to preach
to a Gentile. So he went to Cornelius' house, and when he walked in,
the first thing they all done, they fell down at his feet. He
said, get up! I'm just a man! That's what people
want to do. They want to worship anything
besides, and this John ought to know, but he fell down before
this angel. to worship this angel. And I
tell you, look what this angel said. Look what he said in verse
9. Don't do this. They always said
unto me, don't you do this. Don't you get up, for I'm your
fellow servant. I'm a servant like you are. I'm
just serving God like you are. I'm just following the commandments
of God like you are. I'm just worshiping God like
you do. I'm just a fellow servant. I'm not better than you, I'm
not worse than you, we're all the same. But he said, I'm your
fellow servant, and listen to this, and thy brethren, the prophets. And they said, John, you got
some brethren, and they're prophets, they're preachers. That's what
he says. And he said, and of thy brethren,
of them which keep the sayings of this book, worship God. Oh, and I tell you what, He said,
oh, you worship God. And I tell you, this word prophet
and prophecy means telling the mind of God and the counsel of
God. And it's what it is, it's a declaration
of that which cannot be known by any natural means at all. When you're preaching, you're
foretelling the will of God in reference to the past, the present,
and the future. And that's what he said to him
there in verse 10. And he saith unto me, seal not
the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at
hand. The time is at hand. I remember
Scott saying one time preaching, he said, all we preachers do
is tell you what God's already said. That's all we do. We just
tell you what God's already said. We ain't got nothing new to say.
It's just you find some place where God said something, and
it may be future where God said it, so we tell you what God said's
gonna happen in the future. And it may have been something
that happened in the past, and we tell you what God did in the
past. And if there's something going on in the present, we tell
you what God's doing right now. And that's what a preacher does.
And that's what he said. We're just telling you what God,
and that's why Preaching and prophecy tells declares out the
will of God concerning the past the present and the future And
this is God's way of showing men things that cannot be known
naturally You can't find it out and figure it out for yourself
And then oh my and he said don't you seal the prophecy of this
book don't seal it yet Don't put a seal on it. Don't stop
yet And all men worship God. If an
angel says worship God, how much should we worship God? How much
we should bow down and worship God and adore God, not have no
gods before us? And then we have a serious, serious
warning. Look in verse 11 and 12. He that's unjust Let him be unjust still. Now
this word let has two meanings. One's positive. One's positive. He said let him that's unjust. You remember in Isaiah 58 it
says this, let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man
his thoughts. Let him forsake his way. Let
him forsake his way. and his unrighteous thoughts,
and look unto me, look unto me. And then let him forsake you.
This let always come first. That's why the scriptures, God
asked this question. He said, why will you die? Why will you die? That's the
first let that comes. Forsake your ways, forsake your
mind, forsake your will, forsake everything that you ever believed
and hoped in before you come to know Christ. Forsake it! Why
will you die? Why will you die? Why will you
perish? And oh, then he comes, the second
let, the second last, he says, and let him that's unjust, let
him be unjust still. The second means the withdrawal
from, God says, let him be. One, he says, come to me, forsake
everything, come to me. But this in here, let him that's
unjust. I'm gonna leave that unjust man
alone. I'm gonna let him stay unjust. I'm gonna let him stay
unjust. Ain't that what he's saying?
And he that's filthy, let him be filthy still. I'm gonna withdraw
from him. I'm not gonna do anything for
him. If he's unjust, I'm gonna let
him stay unjust. He's filthy in his mind, filthy
in his heart, filthy in his mind, you know, I'm gonna let him stay
filthy. I'm gonna let him stay filthy. Huh? Just let him be,
that's what he said. Pharisee said, Peter told the
Lord Jesus Christ he offended the Pharisee. He said, let him
alone. Just let him alone. Just let him alone. Even from
forsaking his idols, his turn to his idols, let him alone,
let him alone. And when God says let somebody
alone, I wonder how many people in this
world that God's already let alone. Just let him alone. He'll never speak to them, never
come to them, never reveal himself to them. That'd be awful, wouldn't it?
But I do know this, whichever way you leave this world, that's
the way you are gonna be always. I've said this before, and I
know you believe this, and I know you understand this. But if a
man perishes unjust, going to hell ain't gonna change him.
Perishing will not change a man. The only thing that'll ever change
a man is the Spirit of God. If a man dies hatin' God, and
we've seen that here in Revelations, he said they curse God, they
blaspheme God, and they would not repent of their wickedness
and their idolatry. They wouldn't do it. And there's
men, there's men, I've visited people in the hospital, and mentioned
God, and cussed me. Said, I don't wanna hear it.
Don't wanna hear it. Don't wanna hear it. And I tell
you, here's the thing about it. That whichever way you leave
this world, if you leave this world a filthy, wretched, black,
filthy-minded person, you're going to be a filthy-minded person
throughout eternity. That rich man that went to hell,
he did not ask to come out. He still was, in his mind, he
was still rich. He did not ask to come out. He
just asked for a little drop of water. That's all he asked
for. And that's why I said whatever way you leave this world, that's
the way it's gonna be. But now look here, here's some
real wonderful things, wonderful things. And oh, he that's righteous, he's gonna stay righteous. He's
gonna continue to be righteous. And oh my, and he that's holy,
oh let him be holy still. Oh, we ain't gonna change when
we get to glory either. We're gonna still be righteous.
We're gonna still be holy. Gonna still be holy. And we continue
in that holiness. We continue in that righteousness. And then our Lord gives a tender,
tender admonition here in verse 13. Oh, such a tender admonition. And behold, I come quickly. There
he comes again. That's the second time in this
one, three times in this book. Then he said, behold, I come
quickly. And listen to what he says now. And my reward is with
me. To give every man according to
his work shall be. Now, you know, if you looked
at that, you'd say, well, God's gonna judge us according to our
works. But that can't be so according to the rest of the Bible. So
what is he saying here? And I asked this in a, I forget
where I was preaching. I said, anybody want to stand
up and tell us a good work they've done? Anybody like to stand up
and say, listen, I've done a good work. I've done a good work for
the Lord. I've done a good work for Jesus
this week. I've done a real good work. No, but you would stand up, would
you, and say that? Of course you wouldn't. So what's
he saying? Well, look with me in Isaiah
40, verse 10. This is what he's saying. You
know Abraham, God told Abraham, he said, I'm thy exceeding and
great reward. I am, I am. And when he talks
about his reward being with him, and what he gonna reward us every
man according to his work, And the only work that we look
to, and the only work we trust in, is the work of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We don't trust in anybody's work.
And look what it said here in Isaiah 40 in verse 10. Behold, the Lord God will come
with strong hand, and his arms shall rule for him, and behold,
his reward is with him, and his work shall go before him. So
He's gonna reward us for works we've done because He considers
us believing on Him and trusting Him, because we're trusting in
His work, and that's what He says. His reward's with Him.
We've already been rewarded. We got Him. We got what He did. We got what He accomplished.
And then look with me in Isaiah 62, 11. I certainly don't want to be
judged for anything I've ever done. You know, every man's work will
be tried. That's what, you know, it said
over 1 Corinthians. It said every man's work will
be tried. Of which foundation it's laid on. If you build on
the foundation and it's wood, hay, and stubble, it'll be burned
up. It'll be gone. But if you build on the foundation
that's laid, which is Christ the Lord, and it's precious jewels,
and precious stones, and gold, then your work will endure. And
that's why it says about the prophecy of this book. You build
on, you know, when people build their houses, and preachers are
building houses for people, that you know, build on sand. And
they build on sand, and they build a house for people, and
it won't stand. It won't stand. But I tell you,
when Christ, He's our house, and I tell you what, if we're
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ Himself, the Chief Cornerstone, no other foundation can be laid. And then Paul, rather than Jesus
Christ, and Paul said, I'm not going to build, when I come to
Rome, I'm not going to build on another man's foundation.
I'm not sure that he laid the right foundation. I'm not going
to build on another man's foundation. He said, I'm gonna build, I'm
gonna start my own foundation, because I know what kind of foundation
I'll lay. I know what foundation's already
been laid, and I'm gonna build on that foundation. I'm not gonna
trust what anybody else done. He said, I'm not gonna build
on somebody else's foundation. And look what he said here now
in Isaiah 62, 11. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed
unto the end of the world Oh, listen, we're at the end, he
said, God proclaimed to the end of the world, say ye to the daughter
of Zion, that's the church, behold, our salvation comes, and behold,
his reward was with him, and his work before them, and listen
to this, and they shall call them the holy people, the redeemed
of the Lord, and thou shalt be called sought out, And I tell
you, a city that'll never be forsaken. He doesn't want it
done. We don't want to be rewarded.
Oh my. Oh, listen. He said, behold,
I come quick to my words with me. Don't become hardened in
unbelief and continue in sin. And I'll tell you his reward
is for his work, his work, his work, to give a man according
to his work, his work with him. All right, now look down here
in verse 14. You know the promises of our
Lord, they have eternal consequences because it says, I am Alpha and
Omega, I'm the beginning, I'm the end, I'm the first and I'm
the last. So whatever he says, Whether
it's a judgment or it's a promise, it's got eternal consequences
to it because he's the beginning. Then he gives us a blessed, he
gives us a beatitude. There's a bunch of beatitudes
in the beginning of this book, but here's a beatitude. That
beatitude just means a blessing. Verse 14, blessed are they that
do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of
life and may enter in through the gates into the cities. Oh
my, blessed are they, blessed are they that do or keep His
commandments. Now who in the world can do this? Who can do this? Jeremiah said
it like this, he said, though thou wash thyself with niter,
and wash thyself with all the soap you can find, you cannot
make yourself clean. You can't do it. You can't do
it. And who can do this? Well, I'm gonna show you something.
Look in 1 John 3. Let me show you something over
here in 1 John 3. Talk about a commandment. 1 John 3. Look down in verse 23. You know, His commandments are
not grievous. The way of the transgressors
is hard. And this is the commandment.
This is the commandment now. This is it. Our Lord said, listen,
I'm gonna show you something. He said, this is the commandment.
He commanded us that we should love one another. But this is
his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son,
Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave us commandment. And
he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth
in the spirit by which he hath given us. So, oh my, that's one
commandment we've, two commandments we've kept. We believe on his
name, and we love one another. They commanded us to do that.
That's two commandments we kept. Two commandments we kept. And so when he talks about the
commandment, he's not talking about the 10 commandments, he's
talking about love one another and believe on the name of his
blessed son. He made that very clear, very clear in the New
Testament. And listen to this, that they
may have right to the tree of life. When He says they may have
right to the tree of life, you know the tree of life flows down,
the river comes down through there and the tree of life's
on either side of it. It has 12 manner of fruit. That
they may have the right to the tree of life. Now what does this
word right mean? That means that He gonna allow us to do it. Remember
this, to as many as received Him, to them gave He the power,
the right, the power to become the sons of God. And that's the
same thing he's saying here. They may have right, the power
to the tree of life. I'll give it to them, tree of
life. And we can enter in through the gates into the city. That's
a mysterious thing to me. We are the bride of Christ and
yet we got these gates and go in and out. Now I'm going to
tell you, I'm going to quit preaching and tell you what I think. I
think that when it talks about this city, this bride coming
down, and in that bride Christ's got his throne in there, God's
got his throne in there, let's light it up, but there's this
new heaven and in this new earth, and we go out in this new heaven
and this new earth, and we're not going to raise watermelons,
we're not going to raise squash, we're not going to do any of
that kind of stuff, but there's not going to be no curse on it,
It's gonna be paradise. It's gonna be greater than the
Garden of Eden could ever possibly be. Everybody in this new heaven,
new earth is righteous, sinless, perfect. Can go in and out, and
go in and out in the presence of God. So we'll go out and do
whatever we'll do. I don't know what we'll do. And
I ain't gonna speculate what we're gonna do. I heard a preacher say one time,
he said, if you like cold weather, just say, I want cold weather,
and you'll be out in a snowstorm. Another said, if you like hot
weather, boom, just think about it, and you'd be on the desert. He said, I'm going to let my
sanctified mind run. Well, it ran a little too far. I don't know if we can think
like that. I can't even get my mind around being there. And
much less what it's going to be like. But I do know this. That's the only explanation there
can be. We got this new heaven, new earth.
And we go in and out of that city. That's the bride of Christ.
Christ is on His throne. We go in and out and we see Him
face to face. Oh, that's just, that's the only
explanation you can have. And I don't know if that's true
or, I don't know if it's right or not. That's why, you know,
you can take that or leave it. But I tell you, His reward's
with Him. And then look what He says there in verse 15 now. "'Cause outside that city," outside
that city, "'are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters,
"'and whoever loveth and maketh a lie.'" Now remember this city.
is the Bride of Christ. None of these people are in Christ's
body. Not in Christ, in the Bride of
Christ. Now listen to me, a sorcerer.
What's a sorcerer? Dogs, dogs, and old, sorry, filthy
dogs. Sorcerers are people that, you
know, I'll read you a poem. We'll go through the tarot cards.
I told you one time I was in Philadelphia and went by this fortune teller's house. She's
a fortune teller, that's a sorcerer. And I tell you what, she must
have been really popular because they had a big glass out in front
of it, and they had a couple couches in there, and those couches
were full waiting on to go in there and see that woman and
tell them her future. If anybody could tell me my future, I don't
want to know it. God said let If you go, don't
say I'm going to this city and that city and I'm going to buy
and sell and gain. He said, if it's the Lord's will,
I'll go to that city and I'll do this and I'll do that. And
that's sorcery. And then look what else he says.
Whoremongers, murderers, idolaters. And listen to this one. Whoso
loveth and maketh a lie. Let me tell you two lies. Two
lies that started centuries ago, started in the Garden of Eden.
Two lies. God loves everybody and Christ
died for everybody. And you know how many people
love, make that lie and love that lie? And oh, how many people make
God to be something in the end. He said, well God would save
you if you'd let Him. He loved and make a lie. And
I'd rather lie about anything as lie on God. And that's that
he that loveth and maketh a lie. Those folks love it and they
make it and keep on making it. Then look what else he goes on
to say. Oh my. And I, Jesus, have sent mine
angel, verse 16, to testify unto you these things
in the churches. I've sent it to things in the
churches. And I tell you, I've sent mine
angel to testify these things in the churches. The revelations
tended for all the churches throughout the centuries. Not just John,
but Christ himself is the author of this book. And he says this,
He says, I'm the author. He said, I'm the root and offspring
of David. And what that means is that he's
the descendant of David. He's David after the flesh. And
everything that David is, he owes to the Lord Jesus Christ.
God, his fame, his position, Christ gave it to him. And then
he says he's the bright and the morning star. You know, when
he says he's the offspring of David, he's David's son. He's
God and he's man. He's lowly and yet he was a king
coming into Jerusalem riding on a colt, a foal of an ass.
And listen to this, he's the bright and morning star. Numbers
says, you know, that he saw a Jacob, a star coming out of Jacob. There
was a star over the Lord's, where the Lord was born. And then look
what he says. He said, oh my, our Lord promised
to come quickly And he says here in verse 17, and the Spirit and the bride
say, come. This is not the actual event that they're responding
to, but he's coming in all history at all times. And the Spirit
and the bride say, come. Lord Jesus, come. Like Houston,
Lord, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And that's
what this is, come, Lord. And let him that hear tells people
to come. And let him that is a thirst,
he's thirsty, let it come. Carry out your plan, carry out
your purpose and time in your coming. Come, come. Oh, and that's what he's saying,
come, come. And before your final coming,
he said, just keep on coming. Keep on coming, keep on coming. And he that, and listen to this
in verse 18, let me finish this up. And he says, take it freely,
take everything that you got freely. Let him take the water
of life freely, it's free. The Holy Spirit gives freely,
glorious grace. Christ already paid the price,
the fountain's open. And then he says this, for I
testify every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this book. If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written
in this book. I know I'm taking too long, but let me say this. Let
me tell you three things that most people's added to the book
of Revelation. They added a thousand-year reign, Christ reigning in Jerusalem.
They added a rapture, which the scriptures don't know nothing
about. And they added A tribulation period, seven year
pre-tribulation period. They added three things to the
book of Revelation. And none of those things are
true. Ain't that right? Yeah. That rapture, God's gonna sneak
in here and take his church out and everybody else gotta put
up with it. No, don't happen like that. And then he goes on
to say, If you do this, you add on to them, you know what I'm
gonna do? I'm gonna add on to you the plagues that are written
in this book. You think you've had some troubles before? Said,
you ain't seen nothing yet what I'm gonna do to you. And then
in verse 20, and if any man shall take away from the words of the
book of this prophecy, take away from it, change it in any way,
take away from the seriousness of it, the truth of it, the facts
of it, the warnings of it, Oh, God will take away his part out
of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things
which are written in these books. These are just warnings, warnings,
warnings. That's a final warning. God is
the author of this book, and look what he says, down in verse
now. He which testifieth these things, say, I come quickly. You know what we say? Amen. Oh, amen. Oh, Lord Jesus, let
it be so. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Come. And he said, until he comes,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen. Amen.