Invite your attention back to
Revelation 14. Most of the time in this day
when somebody is more excited about the doctrine of the last
days, the doctrine of things to come, but this book is the
revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. The revelation is, the
revelation is, the language is apocalypse. Lord Jesus Christ. In this book,
this basic book, seven different visions that John is given out
of Patmos, whereupon he saw how the Lord protected his church
in every possible scenario and situation that could ever occur
in the world. That's what this movie is about.
It's about the Lord Jesus Christ taking care of his people. in a world that pretty much has
gone mad. That's what this book is about. Now John, having for a time viewed
the horrors of the beast in his vision, and a view of heavenly things.
This is what he said. He said, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I
looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I
looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I
looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and I looked, and
I looked, and I looked, and I and as the voice of great thunder,
and I heard the voice of harpers with their harps, and they sung
as it were a new song before the throne and before the four
beasts, and no man had heard that song but the 144,000 which
were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not
defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they which
follow the Lamb with us wherever He goes. These were redeemed
from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb. And
in their mouth was no God, for they were without fault before
the throne, And what he sees is a satisfied
or thus satisfied Savior, the Lamb of God, and the Lamb of
God upon His throne is the central figure in the revelation of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is revealed in this final
revelation as the sovereign substitute, the one who died in the room
instead of His people, and now is enthroned because He successfully
redeemed them out of Egypt. and has made him king and priest
upon the earth. He sees him standing, not sitting
on the throne, standing to receive the honor and glory that is due
his name for the success of the work that he has performed. He sees him surrounded by everyone
from whom he died, every chosen, his center, who he is redeemed
by his blood. He sees, as it were, heaven. the Church of God, the Church
of Christ as its head. It represents the place where
the Lord rules as King of kings, Lord of lords, having thwarted
the plots of the carlmen, to cast from them the cords of sovereign
reign and sovereignty. And answer our Lord, He is at
the left hand, and walks with fear because He is yet, and have
I set my King on Zion's holy feet. And all these representations
refer not only to the state of eternal bliss, but also to the
state of the Church. In the gospel age, in the midst
of the horrors and In one way, this John is the
center of what the child of God is trying to do amidst a trial,
looking to Christ amidst a trial. The believer sees the Lamb as
it had been slain from the foundation. by His blood out of every kindred
nation. He sees the Lamb surrounded by those who have been made priests
of God. By faith in the midst of the
trial, when the beast of Satan and the antichrist are hurling
their fiery darts, the believer lifts his eyes to heaven and
sees Christ in all the sinners, standing clothed in white robes
without thong, before all thrones and all the courts of heaven. And with this sight, his fears
are enslaved, and he's the passage knowledge washes over his frame. What John sees is heaven. Heaven has been the center of
the great conjectures written about in the Bible, but it doesn't
say a great deal about it. There are about as many ideas
about heaven as there are about man that conjured them up. It is the Lamb. It is Christ. It is Christ. It is Christ who is satisfied. Heaven is the satisfied Christ
because all the elect surround Christ. Isaiah spoke of Christ
in this great act of substitution and seeing all the travails of
the pains of his soul and being satisfied in the only way. He
said that orphan Baal never knew a miscarriage. Never. Christ
would not be satisfied in one that he bought with him in heaven. That's a foolish thought. So
heaven is Christ with his church. Christ with his people. Heaven
is the satisfied and glorified lambs, and his satisfaction is
the complete redemption of his people. Verse chronology to the main
group of the chapter. Verses 6 through 20 are records
of gifts that actually proceed by them. Verses 1 through 5,
a description of how verses 1 through 5 came to be. Reason for the
reversals of John's prophecy and the entire vision is struck
with awe and wonder at the glory of the man who simply spills
out of his joyous heart. The word of God is despised.
The Lord uses the personalities of the writers. There's sometimes
spontaneous courtesies. The writer, when he will be revealed,
then will be as Paul in chapter 11, chapter 10. To him, by him,
and through him, are all things. Everything is to him. Sometimes a child of God just
gets that way. in the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. He's been the singular object
of faith that God has given us in life in Jesus Christ. It is
in the capacity of the lamb slain that evokes the heart of the
believer to praise. It is his death that settles
the earth. Before God, before God, Christ
has been exalted as Lord over all, and there's a joyous fact
based on the fact that He was obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. Glory and bliss of heaven and
experience of earth, when we see the Lord, when we see the
Lord, when we see the Lord, ourselves with you, the Lamb of God, the
Son of God, say, I am here, I am here, and He is mine, and He
is mine. What a thing, what a thing, or
wretched, or wretched, and seethed in them, speaking
lies as soon as he comes forth, to be able to utter from his
lips the Savior's mind. He is nothing like that, nothing
compared on the earth. We look up at the next thing,
we see his young success, the Lamb's substitution. With him
are 144,000, having the Father's name written in their forehead. What does that mean? What does
that mean? It means they're his. It means they're his. They belong
to him. They're stamped by him. They're stamped by him. They're
stamping their heads. They're stamping their heads. This specific number is about
specificity rather than the amount. The number represents all of
God's people. They are those who are chosen
for the foundation of the world by the blood of the Lamb. The
number is a large number. It means the same thing. It's
spoken in this very book 10,000 times 10,000 times 10,000 because
there's no number in the Greek. Mathematics went beyond 10,000.
So if you wanted to say more, it's 10,000 times 10,000. It's
also like the number of the children of God greater than the stars
in heaven and the sands upon the seashore. And though at any
given time in history the church seemed small and insignificant, Select a specific. In the Book of Kings it says
that all the stones of the temple are put in the temple before
they are put in the temple. That means there are no extra
stones and no stones are missing. There ain't no holes in the temple. And also there's all-sounders,
too, and workmen, and workmen. When that temple is put together,
all the work is done off-site. Where? In eternity, in eternity,
before the foundation of the work. Pre-cuts, pre-cuts, and
then replaced, and replaced. None are missing. None are missing.
None left over. None left over. Plenty of seats. Plenty of seats.
Plenty of seats. Plenty of seats. Plenty of seats. Plenty of seats.
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are all that God the Father gave to the foundation of the world,
which He said would come to Him, and He would not cast them out. He's lost none. He said, this
is the will of Him that sent me. All He's given me I shall
use up again in the last day. These are Mount Sion. All that.
All that. together. That's a long way off. No, it's not. You're already
there. You're already there. You're
seated. You're seated in heavenly places,
in heavenly places in Jesus Christ. We look up and we see the couple.
They worship the land. They worship the land. This is
the distinctive mark of 1,000. They worship the land. Their worship is not playing
about in some human trance. They worship because they know
the One they worship and Him worthy of praise. The song they
sing is known only to them. Nobody else knows that song because
it's only known by revelation. The only way you know God is
if God reveals Himself to you. Until that point you live and
abide in darkness. Until God cuts the light on,
you will remain in darkness. And if He doesn't cut off the
light, you will remain that way. But if He reveals Himself, you'll
have a new song to sing. It'll be upon your lips. And
you'll sing it for the rest of your days. You may go to seminary, you may
go to seminary, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may
study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may
study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you
may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you
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study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you
may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the
Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the
Bible, you may study the Bible, you may study the Bible, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou didst
give me this day, that Thou didst give me this day, that Thou didst
give me this day. The only ones who know and understand
this book are those who have been made alive by Jesus Christ. You can't understand it. You can't understand it. Memorize
it. You may categorize it. You may
categorize it. You may form a systematic theology
around it. But I'm telling you, you'll never
understand it. You don't understand this book.
This book is about the Lord Jesus Christ. Genesis 1, Genesis 1,
Genesis 22, Genesis 22. This is the land. This is the
book. This is the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what this book is about. There were those who studied
this book. everything There ain't life nowhere else.
Folks say, well, won't you add Jesus to your life? You don't
have a life. You're dead in trespass. You're dead in trespasses and
sin. Christ is life. Christ is life. Death is a hammer. Death is a hammer. When you remain
so, you remain so. The mind makes you alive as he
walks by your dead. He says unto you, live. He says
unto you, live. You'll stay dead. You'll stay
dead. You'll stay old. You'll stay old. Learn this song while others
cannot, because they are redeemed from the earth. That's what he
said. A song as it were a new song,
a man that thronged the land before, no man could learn that
song, but the hundred and forty and four thousand, those which
were redeemed, God and faithful, Almighty God, Almighty God, God
and faithful, only Christ, only Christ, required to sing. As we look upward, we see a true
one. Those who surround the throne
are not there by hook or crook. They are not there by mistake.
They are there because they belong. They are there because they meet
the qualifications required to be there. What are the requirements?
Let's read them. These are they which are not
defiled with women, for they are virgin. These are they which
follow the Lamb with us wherever He goeth, redeemed from among
men, being the firstfruits which belong to God, and to God the
Lamb. Paul admonished Elijah and Jeron
because he had made us partakers of the inheritance There's a great number of saints
ready to receive the inheritance due, the heirs of promise. Verse
four and five, verse four and five, and more death. Someday
we'll just forget it this way. It says these are
few. symbolize the fact that they're called virgins. Now a
virgin can apply to a woman who's not known a man, can apply to
any chaste person, can apply to both men and women, and applies
to all the children of God, both male and female. We know that's
the case. We know that's the case because
we're really talking about males here. That's an interesting, that's
an interesting concept. What it is is a declaration of
blood, effectual blood. That's what eugenics is. Never to be seen again. Never
to be seen again. Unless, unless Never questioned. Never questioned. See? The blood proves that she
was changed. You see the analogy, don't you? The blood, the crisis with the
father. And all his children, all his
children, and he was there, and he was there, and he was seeing
them. He brings them the blood. No? No? This is a picture. These are
called virgins. Children of God are called virgins.
Father brings forth the sheep from the wedding night and cruised
the virginity by blood. Christ's bride is without spot
of blemish. He said unto her, Thou art fair
in my love. There is no spot of blemish. Mixed qualifications. They follow
the Lamb. They follow the Lamb. Withersoever he goeth. They follow
the land. This is indicative of the fact
that they are the sheep. Our Lord said this about His sheep. And
He was talking to those who were not His sheep. And He told them,
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not
My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not
My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep.
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep.
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep.
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep.
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep.
You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're not My sheep. You're These are
followers of the Lamb. They go where He goes. This is
indicative of that fact that He is their shepherd. They are
also said to be redeemed from among men. They were chosen from
all eternity, selected and picked out of a fallen race, made unto
vessels of mercy and vessels to be discarded, and redeemed
by the precious blood of the Lamb. They are redeemed. They are agarazo, agarazo, agarazo,
agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo,
agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo, agarazo. What that means is the Lord came
to the marketplace to buy. In the next word, in the next
word, he went to the marketplace to buy. Luatro means that he took it,
went to the marketplace to buy it, he took it out of the marketplace
having bought it and it would never be put on the marketplace
again. That's what those words mean.
That's what it means to be redeemed by the blood of the lamb. He
came to the slave market of sin because we were servants to sin. We were slaves to sin and self
and Satan. We were slaves. We were slaves.
We were not in control of our lives. We were in the strongman's
house. He had us living like he wanted to have us living.
We were fine with that. His house was at peace. We weren't
having any trouble. We didn't have any trouble. We
didn't have any trouble until the Lord saved us. Until the
Lord saved us. That wasn't sin. That wasn't sin. That wasn't
sin. We lived. We lived. He came to that marketplace and
he bypassed and he bypassed the righteous. He bypassed him. Christ, Christ is the first fruit. God said He's predestinated.
He might be Christ. He might be my firstborn. Among many,
among many brethren who were sanctified, who were sanctified,
who belong to God. They are purchased possessions.
They were purchased in the blood of God. This is in their mouths.
There is no doubt. When you look at that and you know what you
are inside, you think, Captain, that's it. How can that be? How can that
be? In their mouth. In their mouth. There's no guile. There's no guile. Scripture says,
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. These are
without guile in their hearts, therefore there's no guile in
their mouth. You heart, Adam, you heart. a
pure heart, a pure heart, because they may be, because they may
be, I just put it from the side of them, put it from the side
of them. Concerning the salvation, the salvation of souls, their
words are few, that's what the word gal means, gal means lies,
they're not lying, they're not lying, what they do, what they
do, lies not in their mouth, their debtors to all men, their
debtors to all men, the priest of Jesus Christ, the priest of
Jesus Christ to tell men the truth, you love a man, you love
a man, you tell him the truth, because the first love, the first
love, It's not romance. It's not attraction. First level. If I loved you,
I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm not going to lie to you about who God is, what you are. I'm
going to do that. I'm going to do that, what it
means. And here's the beauty of the
whole thing. Paul said that. The head of the
church did. In Colossians chapter 2. He said
this. excuse me, Colossians chapter
one. It says in verse 21 and you,
who's he talking to? Christians. Believers in Jesus
Christ. This is the church at Colossae. The body of Christ. And you,
who are sometimes alienated, and enemies in your mind, by
wicked words, yet now I thee reconcile. In the body of His flesh we dare
to present you, holy, holy, unblameable, unblameable, unapprovable, unapprovable,
to present you, to present you. I don't know why they still do
this. I don't know why they still do
this. They didn't cause they didn't.
For a girl when she was 16 years old, He comes out with His bride on
Him, and He presents her. And He presents her as holy,
as holy, undefiled, undefiled, and chaste, and chaste, and without
fault, without fault, and unreprovable, unreprovable, in the sight of
Me, in the sight of Me. He didn't come to bring peace
to Israel. He came to save His people from
their sin. The rest is junk, the rest is
junk. Even this building, even this
building. That computer system, that computer
system. One of these days, one of these days. The church won't,
the church won't. While the rest, while the rest
of the flamers, Help us to understand, help us
to understand that you appreciate what you're doing.