1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Okay, this summer, sometime probably in August, we are going to have a cookout and invite all of the folks in this class and all in fillets this Saturday morning in my Saturday morning class to come together at our house for a cookout. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 We want to find a weather that you want, we usually do this. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 This class, our Saturday class. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Yeah, no, I'm going to ask you, if you want to eat food? 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Yeah, I want this class, yes. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 All this, all yes, many of them are in the Saturday classes. 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Anyway, we will meet on our ports, so I'll have to get cool enough for that. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 We had a wonderful Easter time, I spoke. 9 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:50,000 We had a home church, we had Keith and Erika and a lot of their family there, and we really had that was a great time. 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:59,000 And we will do that this fall, which will start not in September, we are traveling in late August in September. 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:07,000 But we will start in August, and we're going to start doing the critical part of Genesis. 12 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:15,000 And we will do this because it is such a hot issue right now, I want you to know what God has to say. 13 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And so we will do that, probably do that up, and as we get toward Christmas, we'll pick up on something Brent asked, 14 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:39,000 we're going to do the life of Christ, and we'll start with his birth, and we will also get bringing all of the prophecies, which are a lot of prophecies on that. 15 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 And you've seen a lot of them in this passage, in the Revelation in this book. 16 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Yes. 17 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Is there anything you want us to do over the summer and preparation for you stuff? 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:59,000 For what I'd like you to do for starting is read Genesis chapter 1 through, if you really want to go ahead, read, 19 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I just read through chapter 12, 1 through 12 will be good, and we'll get to the Abrahamic covenant. 20 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I'll probably deal with that very quickly, but we really need to know Genesis. 21 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:20,000 I had a long discussion, we were had to be in Dallas this past week for a seminary thing. 22 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:30,000 And we were sitting at a table at the luncheon with one of our Prophets, neat guy friends for many years. 23 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,000 He's head of our research department at Dallas, and we got to talking about what's happening 24 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:44,000 with the LGBT and so forth, and we went back and forth on that a bit, and he said something that I was going to tell him, 25 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 I said, "You've really got to start with Genesis to deal with this. 26 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 You've got to know what we're talking about." 27 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 You said it too. 28 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Yeah, you said it to him, and I was getting ready to say it, I was waiting till he finished, but Philist, nice team right there. 29 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Well, actually, he said it to you first, anyway, so anyway, we are going to do that because I want you to be prepared for everyone and ask you as a first Peter says about the hope that is in you. 30 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,000 You're ready to give an apology and Greek, that is why you believe what you believe. 31 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 We do it graciously, but tenaciously. 32 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I want to say right now, there are a lot of people who are followers of Christ that are attending to cave in, and we just ran into one this. 33 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 We've known about a long time, he's in New York City. 34 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Anyway, I won't go into that, but we want the whole God's word. 35 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 I don't get into politics. 36 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I never have. 37 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I've been pushed when I was in Dallas. 38 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I was pushed to, well, when I was an Iowa, my first church after seminary was pushed to be on the left side. 39 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 We had a number of people there, and then in Dallas, strong pushed toward being in the far right politically. 40 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:06,000 We had a lot of people who were very large church, but my feeling is I hold the word of God. 41 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 And when I vote for people who is best I can see hold that word. 42 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 And we, that I'm very strong on. 43 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:26,000 So we will talk about those things at another time, not tonight, but I wanted you to know that we will be going into Genesis next fall. 44 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,000 God willing, for all of us to hear the Lord hadn't taken us all out, and we hadn't taken us out. 45 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 So we will do that. 46 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Tonight we are going into the Revelation chapter 21. 47 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 We started it and we actually only got through two verses. 48 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And I will read them, and then we will talk about it a bit. 49 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:58,000 This really deals with before we read it, the final home that we will have. 50 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:14,000 I ran driving through a small town in all places, town north of Dallas, and somebody had in there yard a little sign that said, "Make sure your last neighbors are angels." 51 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:29,000 And that is very good sign because if you are in Christ, if you have trusted him and I know you have, your last neighbors will be many things, but they will also be angels. 52 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 And that is what we find in this chapter. 53 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 It's like, as it were, we are all excited when we buy a new house. 54 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 We want to look at it. 55 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:54,000 My youngest son is into that right now. He is selling his house in St. Antonio, it is beautiful, a big home in San Antonio, but they want to move out to center point or somewhere they are going to build another place. 56 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 But they are very excited looking at all the possibilities. 57 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Well, we have the most exciting thing to look at. 58 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,000 It is the place that we are going to spend forever and you will never get bored. I promise you. 59 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 And you won't get worn out, James, we will have a new body. 60 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Every time I have to go out and do something in the yard, I love starting and then about two hours. 61 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I am not as young as I once was. 62 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And so anyway, we will be looking at this marvelous, it is like a realtor taking us through what it is going to be. 63 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And only it is an angel taking John and we go along with him. 64 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I said last time when we started in this passage that the night before his death, our Lord gave us a promise on this. 65 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 He gave it to us as his bride, the church. 66 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And the church, I want to say, comes out in this. 67 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:55,000 And in that place that we are going to finally live in a very marvelous position. 68 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 And so God has graceed us beyond what we can imagine. 69 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,000 What our Lord said that night was that I, that not your hearts be troubled. 70 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 You believe in God, believe also in me, John 14. 71 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,000 In my father's house, our many mansions actually, it is a word living places. 72 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 If we are not so, I would have told you. 73 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And I go to prepare a place for you. 74 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And if I go and prepare a place, I will come again and receive you to myself. 75 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Where I am there, you may be also. 76 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,000 It is my opinion at this point that this place is already built. 77 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,000 And I believe there are people already living in it who are God's people. 78 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And I believe some of them are, I think it's the resurrected people. 79 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 I don't know about those who have not received a resurrection body yet. 80 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 I really don't, God doesn't give us information. 81 00:07:50,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But I feel confident that those who are resurrected and found in Matthew 26, 51 and 52, 82 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 that came out of the graves with our Lord Jesus are living there. 83 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And we have others. 84 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Enok is living there. He is not Jewish, of course. 85 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:15,000 We have Elihu. He is surely there and Moses is there. 86 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Elihu was raptured, Moses was resurrected. 87 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 And I am convinced of that. 88 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 And so this place is already there. 89 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 But now it is in the heaven of heavens and God's heavens. 90 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 It will come to the new heaven and the new earth. 91 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 And that starts us with 21 one. 92 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. 93 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 For the first heaven and the first earth passed away. 94 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Went away. 95 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 And there is no longer any seat. 96 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Felicena and I lamented that today. 97 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 We love to fish. 98 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 We keep a boat, a path of pride. 99 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 And we have fished all my life. 100 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 I grew up in South Florida. 101 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 We have outside fishing boats and inside fishing boats. 102 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And now ours we are basically fished a little dune of my dread. 103 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 And I was a little disappointing. 104 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 But I don't think we will be disappointed. 105 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I want to say you are never going to be bored in the place that you are going to spend forever. 106 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 We go on with this. 107 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,000 And it says, "And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. 108 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Made ready as a bride, a dorn for her husband." 109 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Now we have to understand this to realize first that the holy city, the city of God, which 110 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 I'm just saying, "Call it. 111 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 He got a little confused about what it was to do. 112 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:42,000 He did call it that, is already existing when this happens. 113 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 I believe it exists now. 114 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,000 I don't think the Lord went back and put up with contractors like we try to put up with. 115 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 When we are building something, it's like, are you ever going to finish this place? 116 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 But he did it. 117 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And he did it by a worry, but it is a marvelous place. 118 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 At any rate, we see it coming down in 21. 119 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 And I want to say when this has happened, we're in the new heaven and new earth. 120 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 That's where we are. 121 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Now that means that the way we measure time is no longer. 122 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 The way we think of morning and night is definitely no longer. 123 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 But it will not be a problem. 124 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,000 It will be more exciting than you will never get over it. 125 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 And we'll see that as we go on in excitement and blessing. 126 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Now when it says the first earth passed away and heaven, we know that is true because it was infected with sand and god finally just did it. 127 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,000 The next thing we see is that the city when it comes down is made ready as a bride. 128 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000 It's a picture. 129 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 It's a metaphor. 130 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 And there are several metaphors in this passage. 131 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 A metaphor is something that stands for something else. 132 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 A reality, a picture that stands for reality. 133 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Now in this particular case, we know that this bride is in one sense picking up what we are. 134 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 But this is not us. 135 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 It's the New Jerusalem. 136 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 It's like a bride ready for her husband. 137 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 I have done thousands of weddings. 138 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 I promise you. 139 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:28,000 I need to set out some been figure out how many and 53 years I've done in the past but lots. 140 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:36,000 When we were at Northwest, we'd have about 10 weddings starting with May every weekend through the summer. 141 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:42,000 And all of our staff, we had 25 on staff and about 12 of those did weddings. 142 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 They were pastors and they did weddings. 143 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 And we all were busy every weekend. 144 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:55,000 And so I can tell you that when a wedding is done done rightly, the bride is the center. 145 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 She is the most beautiful and it is a wonderful thing. 146 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 I love doing weddings. 147 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 I love weddings. 148 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 I had a friend who hated weddings, love funerals. 149 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 He's with the Lord and how well I don't hate funerals but I'd rather do weddings. 150 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 They're more fun. 151 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Well this bride is the New Jerusalem. 152 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 It's just done very well. 153 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Now it is true in the New Jerusalem. 154 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 There is the bride and wife of Christ. 155 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 We will see that. 156 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Now that will be a little confusing because the wife of God, the father as it were, are of God, period. 157 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 And when you speak of just God, sometimes you're looking at the entire Trinity. 158 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,000 And sometimes it's very hard to tell where there is God, the father's thinking or is it God the son. 159 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 We usually know what the whole God the Holy Spirit is involved. 160 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:53,000 But this God in the Old Testament had a wife and Israel is called a wife of God. 161 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 And they still will be in the New Jerusalem. 162 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:04,000 But also the bride of Christ is his wife as we shall see as we go on. 163 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 And the reason he is, we are called a wife. 164 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000 In this passage is we've already been to the marriage ceremony. 165 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:24,000 And we've gone through the wedding dinner, the bridal dinner, the wedding dinner that last a thousand years. 166 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Now that's a long, but you won't be bored. 167 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I promise you. 168 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 And so that we have to know. 169 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:39,000 And the reason we are called his wife as we shall see and his bride is that we are now married to the Lord Jesus. 170 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Now that does not have any physical connotations in the sense that we as Cohavitate and marriage and love one another physically. 171 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Because the presence of this is that we are one with each other and we're never separated. 172 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Now I'm at the point in life. 173 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 I've loved my marriage with my wife every day of it. 174 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 And all of these years, and it will be 66 in June. 175 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 And I'm delighted with it. 176 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 But I can tell you the greatest blessing in those 66 years. 177 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 We love the physical part. We love having children. We love all of those things. 178 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 But the greatest blessing is just being with her. 179 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 I want to tell you that's true. 180 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 And we would rather do that. We discuss that today. 181 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 That anything else I'd rather. 182 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I love all of you. But I'd rather spend time with her. 183 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 And I can understand when God takes one, how hard it is. 184 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 When we were in Clearwater, we had a very young church, pasted Clearwater community. 185 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 But we had about probably a dozen to 20 older couples anywhere from 60 up to 80. 186 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 And some beyond. 187 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,000 And when they would lose a mate, it was just crushing. 188 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,000 And many times the other partner would not last over a year. 189 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 They just were ready to go. 190 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Well, we will not have to go from this partner. 191 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,000 The Lord Jesus Christ is going to be personally very close to us. 192 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And I want to say to you, it will be better than any as much as I love our wedding on earth and our marriage. 193 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 It will be better than anything we've ever experienced. 194 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Now, he goes on to say, after this. 195 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Now, as we see this, we find that we are coming to the city of God coming down. 196 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 And I think we mentioned last time several things have happened before we were going to see it. 197 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 And what happened before we lived it. 198 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Now, we as I understand it, who are the church went to live in the city of God after the rapture and the resurrection of the church. 199 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Now, what happened right after it? 200 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Well, we know the first thing that happened is we stood before the judgment seat of Christ. 201 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Second, Corinthians 5, 10. 202 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 We shall all stand before the judgment seat. 203 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Now, when you say that, don't be frightened that judgment seat in Greek is not the right place. 204 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 That judgment seat in Greek is Bima. 205 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 And we have seen the Bima in Corinth. 206 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 We've been right there in number probably 20 or 30 times, but it's right there still from the New Testament era. 207 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 The Bima is a reward seat. 208 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:19,000 It is not where the judge or the general, it was mainly for a Roman general where he would honor his troops. 209 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:27,000 It is where somebody like the head of the city or the procouncil would award people for various things. 210 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Now, we will be awarded or not awarded whether our goods, our deeds, our good or evil are, I think, worthless. 211 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 That's more I think a proper use of that word there. 212 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 But that will have them. 213 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 The second thing that will happen, the wedding itself will have them. 214 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Now, you have to know a Jewish wedding. 215 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I've done a done Jewish weddings, but I've been in a number of them, the Messianic Jewish weddings. 216 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 And I grew up in a Jewish community in Miami. 217 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:05,000 And we were, I was one of the few go-eyes on our football team at one time. 218 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:11,000 One time I was the only guy in the starting lineup that was not Orthodox Jew, or Orthodox West. 219 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Not at least truly a son of Abraham and a flesh. 220 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:22,000 And I had been to weddings. We love Jewish weddings because you can stay three days if you use my parents would never let me do it. 221 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 But it was a great thing. 222 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,000 But the Jewish wedding in the Orthodox home is very similar to the one in the New Testament. 223 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:40,000 What happens in a Jewish wedding is the bridegroom, leaves his father's house, and goes to the house of the bride. 224 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,000 He takes away his friends, his closest friends. That is why John the Baptist. 225 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:51,000 In John chapter three said, "I am the friend of the bridegroom in the bridegroom. 226 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 The bridegroom rejoices because the wedding is come." 227 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:02,000 And that is what happened. The Lord Jesus will have come to the place of the bride. 228 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,000 And that's us. It's not our house, but it's called us up into heaven. 229 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 It makes us in our cloud and I don't have to satisfy it. 230 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,000 And I believe he brings his friends. I believe you will see John the Baptist there and others. 231 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Then he takes us in the Jewish wedding. You go back to the father's house. 232 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And that is where you have the celebration, the fulfilling of the marriage for the physical part when you are in this realm. 233 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And there it is where you as it were going to live. Now you say, "Well, I don't want to live in the father's house." 234 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Well, one of the things we know about the Middle East, having spent so much time there, is both in the Arab world and Jewish, 235 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:56,000 or many times, if you are wealthy, family. We have real close friends who are Arabs, but Dune Kadar is an antiquity dealer. 236 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:05,000 And we've been friends now for 50 plus years. He's not trusted Christ, but he's coming very close. He calls me a lot. Now he calls us. 237 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:12,000 But Kadar is has a beautiful home. He's very wealthy. All of his three sides live in that home. It's four stories. 238 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:21,000 So they can handle that. That is true of a lot of the Jewish homes, the wealth they use. Everybody is there. And they're not unhappy. 239 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:29,000 That is what it's going to be. The Lord Jesus is going to take us to the Father's house. And that house is the new Yerushalayim. 240 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:40,000 And it is in the heavens. It is built. And it is a magnificent place. Now during the millennium, we will be involved. We found out we're going to judge angels. 241 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:48,000 We're going to judge people. Others will be involved. But those who live in the Father's house will be on the earth doing that. 242 00:19:48,000 --> 00:20:01,000 And we'll have access to the heavens. And so we need to know that that's what's going on. Now the next thing we see is what makes being in the Father's house so wonderful. 243 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:15,000 This is verse 3 and 4. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold the tabernacle of God is among men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God Himself will be among them." 244 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Now when we use the word, man, and this passage I'm pretty sure it's half of the past. Let me look real quickly at 3. 245 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:32,000 "F" or "Pone." It looks at both male and female at this point. It's mankind. 246 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:43,000 And he will be with them and his in the Father's house. In other words, we are going in the New Jerusalem to live with God personally and up close. 247 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:57,000 There will be no separation. Now we don't really feel that probably that much, but you've teleconverted Jews as particularly one that's been a heresitum or Orthodox. 248 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Now they become a believer in this blows all their circuits because they've had all these separations from God. Remember the big separation was when you went into the temple. 249 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:27,000 But the Nios, which was the holy place and the holy of Holies, and you only a few people got to go into the holy place. They preached, who would come in there and take care of the altar, which John the Baptist Father did. 250 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:40,000 We see him look one, but going to the holy of Holies only the high priest. That was separated from the holy place by a curtain that was six inches thick. 251 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:53,000 And when Christ came and lived and died, when he died, the day he died, the moment he died, that curtain was ripped from top to bottom. 252 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:01,000 And the Jews agree that half of them, they just don't know why. And so we see that when they meet Christ they're overwhelmed by this. 253 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:14,000 We ought to be that we are going to be in the very presence of God. My oldest son who's doing a lot of preaching right now and doing a very good job at it. He's a surgeon, but God is really using him. 254 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:29,000 He met the Lord early in life, but he, as he said, was as a Christian, a burning dubster. Now he has really come back. And having come back, he is overwhelmed that he is living in the presence of God. 255 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:39,000 And I think that's one of the great blessings of humbling him and making him open to God using him. Okay, so we back to three God is going to dwell with them. 256 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:48,000 And of course this was predicted in the Old Testament in Isaiah 714, his son would be called what? 257 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,520 and hold a virgin shall conceive and she'll show a brain force of the sun and you shall call him. 258 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,520 Amen. 259 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:01,280 Emmanuel, which is God with us, and this is the ultimate fulfillment of that. 260 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:05,000 Now, the four is one that we have to work with a little bit. 261 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,920 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and there will be no longer any death. 262 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:17,840 There will be no longer any mourning or crying or pain for the first things that passed away. 263 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,320 Now, we have to ask for a moment. 264 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,680 Why is it that way? Why? We're not going to be that way. We're new people. 265 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,840 Man, we got it together. We're living in the new Jerusalem. 266 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,920 Who are these people that he's going to wipe tears away from? What do you think? 267 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,160 People who died during the period of the election? 268 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,320 Well, no, they're already resurrected. All the tribulation saints are resurrected. 269 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,200 But you're close. The Jews at see them and have... 270 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:56,520 Well, that was before the millennium. What happened at the end of the millennium? 271 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,680 This is my opinion on it, by the way. You may be right now, maybe you're wrong. 272 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:09,880 What happened at the end of the millennium? Yeah. And you have these people and the millions of people are going to die, 273 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,400 because they have turned against God. 274 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,320 Now, they're going to be a lot of people. These are their family, their friends. 275 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:22,520 And for a short time, they will persecute these people. It's a very short time. 276 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:28,120 It says Satan will be released for a "how long," which is a very short time. 277 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:35,600 But it will create great anguish to see people that you loved killed and the evil that comes to you. 278 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:42,480 And I think these are the people who are in the millennium that the end of it, that he wipes away the tears, 279 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,520 because they've seen children die, that they've seen friends die who turned against God. 280 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:55,160 It is going to be a tough time. And we don't have a lot on that. But I believe that is what's going on here. 281 00:24:55,160 --> 00:25:03,840 Now, before we go on, he says at this point that morning and crying are paying or going away. 282 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:11,080 At this point, there will be no more for those in the new heavens and the new earth on the new earth. 283 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:17,200 We really need to know that. Every time you get up and have an ache, and I have lots of them. 284 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:30,280 My sweetie had some too. And the older you get, it's patch and so. We've talked about Katie. She couldn't come tonight, because she's been in a pattern looking out for her. 285 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:40,960 And she's just, "Fraid she's going to fall." It's tough. But that's all going away. And we have to know this new body. We have, of course, we've known that for a long, 286 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:54,600 when we resurrected and wrapped you all, to say, "Guess what?" Yeah, she had. Yeah, oh. Okay. Now, the next thing that it points out is that what is going to happen from here. 287 00:25:54,600 --> 00:26:13,840 First, we took away all the old. And we saw last time that the old heaven and earth fled before him. Now, we find out that there's no more pain. Then we read in verse 5, "Well, why don't you read for me verse 5?" 288 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:42,840 And he who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things in." And he said, "Right. For these words are made up and true." Okay. Now, at this point, we are experiencing something that is going to go on forever. He said, "It is done. I am alpha and the mega, the beginning and the end." That sounds like, "Well, it's all over." 289 00:26:42,840 --> 00:27:00,840 We're just going to sit around now. I have things done. We'll sit around and look at each other and try to play. Mama Pager, Bridge or whatever it is. But that's not true. The word in is telos. It means it has been completed. Now, what has been completed? 290 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:16,840 The judge of what's been completed, right? What else has been completed? The end of the sin. The end of sin. The salvation that we have has been set and completed. Not only the judgment of everybody but the salvation of all of those are in Christ. 291 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:34,840 It is all in place. We don't have to worry about sin anymore. We don't have to worry about evil. People will don't have to do with it. That is all done. Now, what comes after this? Something that if we tried to explain it today, we could not come to grips with it. 292 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:47,840 We need to understand. We're going to see a lot of things here in picture and some of them may not be pictures. We don't know, but they are so fantastic that they'll be the best things we ever saw. 293 00:27:47,840 --> 00:28:02,840 For instance, here he says, "It is done. I am alpha and omega, the beating and the end." In other words, I took care of dealing with sin, but also I took care of bringing great salvation. The one my father originally planned. 294 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:15,840 I'll give to everyone who thirst from the springs of the water of life without cost. He will give to everyone and that will be something we'll do continually. We'll all be thirsty and we get to drink. 295 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:38,840 In our new life, our eternal life will have bodies. We will just be spirits. We'll grow in beauty and in strength. I think this picture of the spring, I think it's real, but we'll see it in 2022. But it also is telling us that we will just grow in our faith and our new believer constantly. 296 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:53,840 Now he goes on to say this. He who ever comes will inherit these things and I will be his God and he will be my son. I believe at this point the father is speaking. 297 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:08,840 This is one of the problems he is speaking. What would make you think in seven the father is speaking? He will be my son. He will be my son or daughter. Again, you have the male, but it's most son or daughter. 298 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:27,840 He did know that and it says it's what we call a characteristic part of simple. The overcoming one. If you are in Christ Jesus and you really have a you are a ha, Nikon, the word Nike is to be Victor is or overcoming and you are a victorious one. 299 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:47,840 Now part of that is because you have trusted him and you said Lord salvation is in you. It's not here. We are in a fight right now with a coming world order that says it's all right here and we're going to run the show and I don't want to be with us. We're a wife of a mouth. That's another whole story. 300 00:29:47,840 --> 00:30:05,840 But we know it has all been taken care of and he who overcomes and heresy say and I will be his God and he will be my son. Now we come to eight and we pick up something that we want to look at just a moment. 301 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:18,840 It says but for the cowardly and unbelievable and a bomb and a bull and murderers and immoral persons and saucers and idolaters and all eyes their part will be in the lake. 302 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:38,840 That burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death. We have to remember that where they are because it's going to come up again. Where it comes up again you might think they will write outside the gate of the new Jerusalem they're trying to get in and they're not. They have a place and they have chosen their place. 303 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:50,840 We really when I was at the University of Texas we're kind of a doctor and I read a lot of the famous poets who were not Christians and what they had to say. 304 00:30:50,840 --> 00:31:05,840 Most of them were saying well we're thankful we're not going to do this. They said things like we'd rather serve and we'd rather rule and hell and serve and have in all those kind of things. Well first you you're not going to rule and hell. 305 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,840 Satan's going to run that show and second when you're hell and hell you won't be happy you're there. 306 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:19,840 But that was their view and they're going to get to go there and they are not going to be around but that's the emphasis here is that. 307 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:35,840 Now at this point we have kind of the beginning of looking at the eternal state and the next thing we want to do is we want to look at I miss something verse five. 308 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:41,840 I want to pick that up first five I knew I'd miss that and somebody read verse five again. 309 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:53,840 And he who sits on the throne said, "Behold I am making all things new and he said right for these words are faithful and true." 310 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,840 What he's saying the Lord Jesus is saying to John and anybody listen I'm not loud about this. 311 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:04,840 I am making all things new. He's saying well yeah we got the New Jerusalem we got the new us. 312 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:15,840 We're going to have the new people out of the tribulation they're going to be made new and the people who come out of the act of the thousand years they're all going to be transformed our resurrected. 313 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:26,840 That's got to be true it doesn't say it but it is they're all part of the first resurrection and all those nations will be pre-ful who have either been transformed or resurrected in their perfect. 314 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:36,840 There are new but that's not what he's talking about and he's going to do that it's a present tense in Greek. 315 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:51,840 Yeah and he says I am making all things to a present tense in Greek one of the beauties of the Greek language is the tenses give you an int the information of how this action is really happening for instance an aeros. 316 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:57,840 Tenses adopt just look at it's an event he made something new he makes something new. 317 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:08,840 Doesn't tell you how long when how long it's going to last. If you come to a perfect it's a past a dot it's made but it has continuing effect. 318 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:21,840 Flu perfect a dot and a line but it stops he had made all things new but this is a present tense is a straight line that never stops. 319 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840 Do you get that? 320 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,840 Yeah it's right eternity and what is he doing in eternity. 321 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:39,840 Making all things new if you were to be bored and have a don't worry gang it won't be boring he is going to be making all things new continually. 322 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:53,840 Now you say well how much new stuff he's got himself he can make things we will never for a long but long ever never be bored because he's making something else new. 323 00:33:53,840 --> 00:34:13,840 Oh yeah we will always be learning more about him that's right it will never get to the end of that that is another thing and that's from us but this one who is eternal God and is beyond anything we can imagine is always making everything new. 324 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:25,840 Now we go back to ten because we did the nine let's go to nine that's where we're going to start. At this point we mentioned about it be sure your last. 325 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:31,840 Neighbors are angels. Well this first tells you that's going to be true. 326 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:45,840 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven plagues came and spoke with me saying come here and I will show you the bride the wife of the lamb. 327 00:34:45,840 --> 00:35:00,840 The bride the wife of the lamb is the church and I believe it's the church right here but he's not going to show him the church rather he's going to show them the place the church lives and that tells you how important you are to God. 328 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:14,840 You know we're sitting here in Lano Texas the world is not wondering what's going to happen in Lano Texas I promise you people aren't a New York or Washington or Moscow or Beijing saying boy I wonder if they're doing in Lano. 329 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:26,840 Well they ought to be because some of you all of us right here are people who are going are part of the bride who is the wife of the lamb. 330 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:34,840 Just seeing how lamb is used every time why is that used all the time. That's how that guidance to be the wife. 331 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:48,840 Right it did the other side we see in chapter five the wrath of the lamb and the lamb can be wrathful when you reject his sacrifice but for us he is the lamb of God that takes away the son of the world. 332 00:35:48,840 --> 00:36:02,840 Now he's going to show us the holy city and Jerusalem coming down out of heaven but what we're finding out is the church and this amazing because I look in the mirror and I know what I am and I say really Lord. 333 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:20,840 He says no it's faithful and true it's true you are going to be the center as it were in that new Jerusalem which is in the and going to come to the new earth that comes out out of God's heaven through the new heaven to it. 334 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:32,840 And so that's what he says it's coming down out of heaven from God. Now this is a vision he's seeing this spirit takes him to a great and high mountain so he can sort of look on all of this. 335 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:49,840 I was telling somebody we are hoping to do our last Israel trip and make it really a barrier telling this fall or December somewhere in there we don't know yet but one of the things I was telling somebody about is one of the places I love to be is on Mount Naval. 336 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:56,840 What happened on Mount Nibbo. What happened on Mount Nibbo? So we're in Jordan. 337 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:02,840 Moses is there. Moses is there. Moses is all the land from there and he was buried there inside. 338 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,840 I think in that could be. Moses that's where Jeremiah took them. 339 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:22,840 I don't know that side down yet to the art. And so I've stood up there a number of times and you see everything you can see Jerusalem you can see Jericho. You can see south you can see almost down to better shave 340 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:33,840 but you can't the Mount Rains keep you from seeing better shave. But this is kind of what John is he's on this high mountain and he's able to see everything that's going on. 341 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:47,840 And he says he showed me the Holy City Jerusalem coming out of heaven from God. Having the glory of God, having the glory of God, her brilliance and this is her. 342 00:37:47,840 --> 00:38:00,840 You've got to know it on this which is I think a good thing. Her brilliance is her illumination, her shining from within is really what it is. 343 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:10,840 Her illumination is like very costly stone, a stone of clear crystal, jasper. Now I want to talk about the jasper son of a minute because it's going to come up. 344 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:21,840 Some say that it's clear but it has a green hue. I think a better and I researching this I think it's clear but it also has a golden hue. 345 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:35,840 And I think that is what we have happening here. And this is the general hue that comes from the city of the New Jerusalem as it comes down and it's because of the glory of God. 346 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:45,840 Now it has buildings and we'll see that. And at this point we're going to do a review of the building. 347 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:59,840 We need to be ready for that. The New Jerusalem we're going to take a tour. Now the first thing we see is there are three very important things to know about this city. 348 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:16,840 The first are the occupants and they reflect the glory of God. The second is the architecture which reflects the glory of God and the third is the illumination, the light and they all reflect the glory of God. 349 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:30,840 Now I'm going to leave a lot of this for your personal study because I would like to be able to get to 22 next time but we could spend the rest of the year just on this. 350 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:45,840 Now we start with verse 12 and it starts with the wall and the gates and we will get to that and we will start our tour but before we go on I want us to first talk about the occupants. 351 00:39:45,840 --> 00:40:03,840 First we know that if you read this it had a great and high wall with 12 gates and the gates and at the gates are 12 angels and the names which are written on them which are the names of the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel. 352 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:16,840 This gives us two other clues of who's in this city and we need to really understand this but we're going to give you another passage it will help you understand it even more. 353 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:29,840 From this we know the city has angels they are at the gates they are a garden of honor John Walbert said I don't know really that's what they are they are there for some reason and that probably is partly true. 354 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:45,840 The other thing we know is that there are going to be Hebrews and there you have the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel which are the names are written on these gates and so that tells us and we know the Jewish people will be there. 355 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:58,840 But that's not the end of it we know the churches there of course we've already seen that but I want to point you to a passage in the book of Hebrews I love the book of Hebrews. 356 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:24,840 I've got a confess I had not really preached that preach some out of Hebrews when we moved to New York City to Pastor Calvary Baptist and when I was there we had a very sharp lady in our choir and she used to come to all of our Wednesday night we had a great Bible study on Wednesday night I'll get to this any minute here games I'm going to get one two far there we go. 357 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:32,840 Anyway chapter 12 we're going to look at verses 22 through 24 chapter 12. 358 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:39,840 She came to me one we were studying first John or something while we were saying she said you ought to teach the book of Hebrews. 359 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:48,840 She said it's a great book so I said no and I did change my life and I've taught it a lot since then he brews is a great book. 360 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:57,840 But this is one of the real significant passages in the book about the city. 361 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:13,840 Now in verse 22 we read this but you have come to a mountain to Mount Zion to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to myriads of angels. 362 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:27,840 Well it's not just going to be 12 angels there they're going to be muri that's thousands of angels so they won't only be not distant neighbors or probably be next door and above you and around you and everywhere. 363 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:43,840 The next thing we see to the general assembly of the church of the first born who are enrolled in heaven and that covers the church and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of righteous. 364 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:58,840 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood which speaks better than the blood of able. 365 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:12,840 Now we'll come back to this passage because it is really an important passage but there we've already seen that Jerusalem and the church are going to be there and then when you talk about the spirit of righteous men of the righteous made perfect men and women. 366 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:22,840 That all the Old Testament saints but we're also adding others who else will be in the new Jerusalem. 367 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,840 Think about it. 368 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:40,840 This spirit. Well no that would be these are real resurrected people. The spiritual people when he says may righteous are resurrected people. Who are they who who are the others we have the Jews that believing Israel is there. 369 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:51,840 You're King David is there and all of those but and we have the church is there and who else will. 370 00:43:51,840 --> 00:44:01,840 Well they yeah but they may be Jews yet they okay they certainly will be there that would be a good point there be Gentiles out of the tribulation who come there who aren't part of the church. 371 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:12,840 That's true. Well they're Jews of there because who are there who aren't Jews let's think about free Abraham. 372 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,840 Who before Abraham would be in the city of God? 373 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,840 No. Yeah oh God. Yeah no. I think so. 374 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:33,840 Adam and Eve exact very good. Well. Inoc walk with God and was not yes sir and a lot we don't know and a lot is there. 375 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:43,840 He never know about lot. Lot was a piece of work but Peter again for a speeder and a lot was. 376 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,840 He was able. 377 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,840 Amol can able will be there. Enicle that's right. Abol will be there. 378 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,840 Well Kizadak will be there. You have a lot of people that are going to be there. 379 00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:05,840 Ruth will be there. Of course she becomes a Jew but she was a ball bite when she started that's right. 380 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:10,840 So I just think that's important to understand we've got these people that will be there. 381 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:17,840 Now we can think of others. I thought of Job. Job is not a Jew. 382 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:29,840 He was a German. He was a German. He was a general in the Syrian army. That's right. 383 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:37,840 He wanted to be healed and he heard there's a property comes over to there and this is in second kings and they sent him to a lot. 384 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:47,840 Finally he goes to the lies. He lies just as telling to go and dunk himself in the river seven times and the river he chose was a muddy river. 385 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,840 He had the par farer which was a beautiful river. He said, "I'm going to do it. 386 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,840 I've got to go into the par farer. It's clean and go this is why would I do that." 387 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:04,840 One of his servants probably said, "If it's a good girl, you would have done one of his servants. 388 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,840 You would have done it. It'd have been a real hard thing. You both would have done it. 389 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:15,840 He goes in one time, two times, three times, four times, five times, six times, he looks nothing. 390 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:21,840 But he does the seven. He comes up and flushes like the flesh of the child. 391 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,840 Very wonderful. So these people will be there. 392 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:32,840 Now, that brings us to what these people have done and why they are there. 393 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,840 I think of the West Minister, short confession, press material and I know it was a good confession. 394 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:45,840 That is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. In this life we glorify Him and we do enjoy Him. 395 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,840 But when we're with that in that place we'll enjoy Him forever. 396 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:55,840 Okay, so that takes us to the people who are there, the occupants. 397 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,840 If you have any questions on that before we leave it. 398 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:08,840 Okay, the architecture. We begin to deal with that with the gates. 399 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,840 You have to pull up, pull in these all together at one point. 400 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:20,840 First, the city itself has this Jasper Variant Crystal Clear. I think it's like with a hue of gold. 401 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:27,840 And the walls, we see the high walls with 12 gates and the gates have the name of the Sun of Israel. 402 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:36,840 And I want to look at the gates and these gates are on the each of the four walls around the city. 403 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:49,840 They're three on each of the four walls. That's right. Now if you'd like to know where they're located, probably the temple of the Millennium. 404 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:56,840 What is the millennial temple? There is going to be, yes, the land Jerusalem. 405 00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:02,840 Where do we read about it in the Bible? Has a keel? 406 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:11,840 Has a keel? Chapters 40 through 48 is the millennial temple. Now is it going to be the fourth temple? 407 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:16,840 Are is it the third temple refixed? I do not know the answer to that. 408 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,840 But it will be the temple and Christ will be in their David will be there. 409 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,840 And we will probably be there, but we all... 410 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,840 Everything is new. It won't be a refixed. 411 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,840 No, no, no, that's in the millennia. 412 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,840 Everything is not new in the millennia. 413 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,840 Oh, okay. 414 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:44,840 See, what we're asking is where do the gates go? Because in that temple in the millennium, we are totally very clearly where each of the walls have three gates of what they are. 415 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:51,840 And this is the gate of Judah and I think it's a car and so forth. 416 00:48:51,840 --> 00:49:02,840 Okay? Now, the next thing we want to do is look at the foundation stones of the gates and that is in verse 14. 417 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:06,840 And the wall of the city had 12 foundation stones. 418 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:12,840 And on them were 12 names of the 12 apostles of the lamb. 419 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:18,840 Now, we're going to find out something else about these foundation stones. 420 00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,840 And that begins in verse 19, but we'll wait a minute. 421 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:29,840 But what we want to see that these stones have the 12 apostles of the lamb and graved on them and they're in layers. 422 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,840 By the way, I take it. 423 00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,840 And I was going to get into what we have seen. 424 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,840 Satan likes to cost you God. He's not created at all. 425 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:43,840 And if you remember in Babylon, you have a pyramid. 426 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,840 And it was made, it was layered of beautiful painting or stone. 427 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,840 We don't know what it was. It was gold and black and so forth. 428 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,840 Well, these are going to be layers that the temple will sit on. 429 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,840 They're the foundation layers. 430 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:03,840 Okay. The next thing we're going to see is the height of the wall. 431 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,840 Now, the height of the wall is found in 15th through 17. 432 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:14,840 And the one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and it's gates and it's walls. 433 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:20,840 And the city is laid out as a square and its length is as great as the width. 434 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:25,840 And he measured the city with the rod 1500 miles. 435 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,840 It's length and its width and its height are equal. 436 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,840 Now, that's a stop here a minute. 437 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:39,840 This takes us to the first to the height of the, we haven't gotten to the height of the wall. 438 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,840 I got to get to that. I said, I was going to get to that. 439 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,840 Now, 17 is yeah. And he measured the wall. 440 00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:53,840 Thank you. 72 yards according to human measurement, which are also angelic measurements. 441 00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:06,840 Say the same. And these human elements are cubits. And if you measure that out with the, they have 72 yards, you can look at the sign of their 44 cubits. 442 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:18,840 You find that the wall is 216 feet high. There is no wall in history that high around a city. 443 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,840 216 feet. 444 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,840 Now, there's nothing on top. We don't know. 445 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:31,840 He doesn't say there's anything. Now, under it is the foundations of the city. 446 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,840 Yeah, under it is the foundations. 447 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:38,840 So, now the shape of the city is the next thing I want us to see and I've already gone to that. 448 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:48,840 We said that it's above. It's, it's 1500 miles both and width and length and height. 449 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:55,840 Now, the question is, is it a cube? The little handout I gave you shows it as a cube. 450 00:51:55,840 --> 00:52:00,840 I don't want to say something about it. Go to that. It's a page three. I think it's. 451 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,840 Yeah, that's it. Page three. 452 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,840 No, I think it's three. 453 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:13,840 Three is not a cube. I think that's true. Well, we got it. I missed copied. 454 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:20,840 Anyway, get to the one with the cube on it. Where ever it is, it's only four pages. I didn't find it. 455 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:25,840 Yeah. Now, if it's a cube, but it's a cube. It's goes up. 456 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:32,840 Our atmosphere goes 80 feet above earth. And above that you have a molecule here and a molecule there. 457 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,840 There's no atmosphere up there. 458 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,840 But that doesn't matter here because we're new having a new earth. And I want to say something about that. 459 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:48,840 We're going to read about the stones that make up the foundations, the 12 foundations. 460 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:54,840 We're going to say that there will read the names of the stones. And there's stones we know of today. 461 00:52:54,840 --> 00:53:02,840 But I promise you those stones are metaphors for the stones that exist there because these are not like anything we know. 462 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:09,840 This is the new heaven and the new earth. Everything is different. Nothing wears out forever. 463 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:15,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good thing. 464 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:21,840 No, well, you don't have to, well, you get new shoes. You just have a lot of them. 465 00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:31,840 But now, the shape of the city, and we'll go to that. And then we'll talk about the foundation stone is it is about 1500 miles. 466 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:42,840 The question on that is how far a stadium is. And it's they tell you that it's 1500 miles, it's 12,000 stadium. 467 00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:54,840 The state is either 600 feet or 666 feet or 616 feet. We are 12 feet. We don't know exactly which measure but they're using. 468 00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:02,840 We do know most people who talk about this route at all somewhere between 1400 feet and 1500 feet. 469 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:18,840 It's big. I saw a presentation one time of friend of mine was doing it. Jewish guy. He had of all the people that have ever lived up until this was like 1985. 470 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:25,840 All the earth as far as we know. And he put them all in this tube and you can hardly say they look like dust on the floor down there. 471 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:37,840 That's how big this is. You think about it. Something that is that big. Now John Walver, who wrote, I think the best commentary that's out so far on the revelation, 472 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:51,840 said it also may not be a tube. It could be a pyramid. It's square on the bottom but all you get is the height of 1500 feet. I think that is a possibility. I do not know that it will be. 473 00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:58,840 Why? Because we see a Babylon, a pyramid. The Ziggarots. Ziggarots all over them. 474 00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:14,840 And I said, Satan likes to copy God and he knows what's coming. We also see in Mexico pyramids. And so it may be. We're going to see next time that the water comes out from God's throne and flows down. 475 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:21,840 And it could be at the Pentacle. I don't know. You can think about yourself. What do you feel on that? 476 00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:37,840 It's the reason. Yeah, he does. Five minutes. Okay. I will get to it. Very quickly the foundation stones. And that's the foundation stones in the city. These are the ones that had the names of the apostle on of every kind of precious stone. The first one to jazz for the second one to suffer. 477 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:53,840 I don't know what you look at these. You have a thing. I will say the jaster is clear and I think with a golden new sapphire is blue. The calcidon is sky blue with stripes of other colors. And that's the word calcidin. Of course the word for. 478 00:55:53,840 --> 00:56:14,840 Kiston Bull are the main city in Turkey and it was at that point. It was one time the capital of the eastern Roman Empire and was a Christian center. 479 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:38,840 The emeraless is another level. It's a bright green. The sardone is red and white. The sardis is reddish. The crystallite is golden. It has a golden hue to it. The buriel is sea green. The top has yellow green. It's transparent. 480 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:53,840 The crisp parisus is shade of green. The Jacenta is violet and amethyst is purple. If you can work on that yourself, these are the 12 foundations. The whole point of this is this beautiful beyond. 481 00:56:53,840 --> 00:57:19,840 or any or remember the movie, the closing counters of the third time kind. You remember it when they got to the city, you saw all of those colors and everything. Well, again, Satan likes to try to reproduce it. I want to say one thing about this. When we're in this city, it will be so magnificent that anything we've ever had is a great experience. 482 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:43,840 We'll be left by 10 to the hundredth time and that's a number that you can't count. I think of the great times my sweetheart and I hope we get to see all this. I think maybe she'll let me come up and be without over. I ask her for appointments there. But anyway, I think of the great things we've done. I we had a time and switch on up and a lot of room and up and a young fraught, shock up and the Swiss Alps. 483 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:51,840 Those are great. Nothing will compare to what this will be every day for you and for me. 484 00:57:51,840 --> 00:58:03,840 And so this gives us a picture of what this city is like. Now the last thing we looked at the first, the occupant, secondly, the architecture, third, the illumination. 485 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:09,840 And I'm not going to be able to do that tonight. I don't think. How many minutes have I got? 486 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:19,840 Keep going. Just going. Keep going. Okay. 22. Somebody read us 22 through 26. 487 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:34,840 And I saw no temple in it for the Lord God, the Almighty and the land are its sanctuary. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it. 488 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:42,840 The glory of God has illuminated it and its lamp is the lamb and the nation shall walk by its light. 489 00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:54,840 And the kings of the earth shall bring the glory into it. And in the daytime for their show, being no night there, is against a never be closed. 490 00:58:54,840 --> 00:59:00,840 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nation into it. 491 00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:10,840 Do you want 87? No, I'm going to read that in a minute. This is giving us the illumination. First we find out that there's no temple. 492 00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:18,840 Because there's no separate creation from God, the Almighty and from the Lamb, and they are both together the temple that says earlier. 493 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:26,840 But we will be able to see them and be with them because he is in his presence forever. 494 00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:38,840 Secondly, the glory of the light illuminates from, I believe, God the Father. This is what it's saying. The glory of God has illuminated. This means a broad illumination. 495 00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:48,840 And we see this. First John 1 5. God is light and in him is there's no darkness at all. 496 00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:56,840 And then of course Jesus and our Lord said in John 9 5, I am the light of the world while I'm in the world. 497 00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:05,840 But I think it's looking into the Father. The next one it says, the Lamb is the lamp. That's an amazing statement because he is the light as well. 498 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:12,840 But I think it's looking at something very personal. That means that he is individually going. 499 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:22,840 And we talk about lamp. This is what they're looking at. This is a celebratory lamp from the first century. I have a collection of lamps. It's got Hebrew written here. 500 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:34,840 We can't tell what that letter is. So shean, toff is what's after we're done. I don't know what that one is. So we don't really know what it means. But that's the size. Some are a little bigger but not much. 501 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:44,840 One person could hold this and have illumination but not a lot. And I think it looks to the fact that in the New Jerusalem will have the glory of God lighting everything. 502 01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:49,840 But Jesus will be our personal lamp. You think about that. 503 01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:55,840 The word is so much. Yeah. So okay. I put that in what passage. 504 01:00:55,840 --> 01:01:00,840 Psalm 119105. I word is the lamp. 505 01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,840 It's the most important thing that I like. 506 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:03,840 That's my path. 507 01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:04,840 That's right. 508 01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,840 And that looks again at this same thing. 509 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,840 It shows us what's around us and a path before us. 510 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,840 The kings come into the kings of the nations. 511 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:15,840 They come into the city. 512 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:16,840 They go out. 513 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:18,840 The doors are never shut. 514 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,840 I really don't know what to say about them. 515 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:25,840 I really know because God doesn't tell us a lot, but it's going to have nations. 516 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,840 It's going to be mind-blowing. 517 01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:29,840 Maybe one of you will be in Fresno. 518 01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,840 You'll never know what's going to happen. 519 01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:40,840 When we end this, we see that God has a place for us prepared and it's coming and we'll be there. 520 01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,840 And it will be forever for us. 521 01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:53,840 I think of this and after looking at this, I always raise me back to what Peter said in second Peter. 522 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,840 And let me just read this as our clothes. 523 01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:01,840 And second Peter chapter three. 524 01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,840 We start with verse 10. 525 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:10,840 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away. 526 01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:12,840 That's what we just looked at with the roar. 527 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,840 And the elements will be destroyed with the intense heat. 528 01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,840 And the earth and its works will be burned up. 529 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:25,840 Since all of these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought to be in holiness? 530 01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:34,840 In Holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming day of the Lord because of which the heavens will be destroyed and burned. 531 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,840 And the elements will melt with intense heat. 532 01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:45,840 But according to it, from us, we are looking for new heavens and the new earth in which righteousness dwells. 533 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,840 That's the application of this. 534 01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,840 What should we be living for? What's here? 535 01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:52,840 No. 536 01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:57,840 It's all fire, say. What's coming there? Let's pray. 537 01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,840 Lord, thank you for this time and your word. 538 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,840 And thank you for this magnificent promise. 539 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,840 It always takes our breath away and it should. 540 01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:19,840 Lord let us live for that day serving you faithfully, graciously but teniously holding and living your word by the power of God the Holy Spirit to radiate your light. 541 01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:25,840 For our Lord Jesus who is the light of the world said to us, you are the light of the world. 542 01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:34,840 Let us be light in this dark day and Father let us be light until the day that the darkness is gone and the light shines forever. 543 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,840 And the new heaven and the new earth are here and we are in it. 544 01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:43,840 And the name of the one who makes it possible, Jesus. Amen.